Altmayer sentenced to life without parole in Jasper County

NEWTON- The Ankeny man who was arrested after allegedly attempting to lure children into his vehicle in Dike and at the Dietrich Mobile Home Park in the summer of 2016 has been found guilty by a jury in Jasper County and sentenced to life in prison without parole, but he has still yet to stand trial on his Grundy County charges.
           
The case, which has received statewide attention, has been delayed and continued several times since his initial detention.
           
Altmayer pled not guilty to the felony charges of child enticement last March, and a jury took just one day to return a verdict against him in Jasper County on January 19. The children in Grundy County did not enter his vehicle and were not harmed in any way, but according to police reports, he inappropriately touched an 11-year-old girl in Colfax on August 17, 2016, after offering her $100 to get into his car. The victim quickly became uncomfortable with the situation and was able to escape when Altmayer pulled over near the library.
           
Since his arrest in March of 2017, Altmayer had been held in the Jasper County Correctional Facility on a $385,000 bond, and he also faces similar charges in Monona County in far western Iowa.
 
Grundy County Attorney Erika Allen referred all inquiries to the state's Assistant Attorney General Susan Krisko. 
 
UPDATE: Per a phone conversation with Krisko, the cases in Grundy and Monona Counties will no longer go to trial, and Altmayer is expected to accept individual two-year sentences on each count of child enticement tacked on to his life sentence for kidnapping in Jasper County. Krisko said that the families of the victims are satisfied with the punishment and did not deem additional trials necessary. 
 
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