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Hiawatha man arrested after shots-fired incident

By Greg Bebermeyer

08/20/2025

Matthew Olson/Credit: Brown County Sheriff's Office

(KNZA)--A Hiawatha man was arrested late Tuesday morning following a shots- fired incident in northwest Missouri.

Brown County Sheriff John Merchant, in a release, said Brown County dispatch was alerted shortly after 10:30 Tuesday morning by Nodaway County, Missouri law enforcement of a Hiawatha man who was suspected in an incident in their county in which gunshots were fired.

The man was reported to driving a gold or tan SUV type vehicle with a Kansas license plate.

Merchant said Brown County deputies, along with the Kansas Highway Patrol, Hiawatha Police Department, Sac and Fox Tribal Police, Iowa Tribal Police and Kickapoo Tribal Police, all staged at various areas of the county to try and intercept the individual should he try and return to Hiawatha.

Just before noon, Merchant said the vehicle was stopped in the Carpet Plus parking lot in Hiawatha and the suspect, identified as 41-year-old Matthew Olson, was taken into custody without incident.

Olson was booked into the Brown County Jail on Nodaway County charges of criminal discharge of a weapon, telecom harassment, and possession of a controlled substance.

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