According to a press release from the Sac County Sheriff’s Office, on the afternoon of June 4, 2025, a Sac County jailer and two deputy sheriffs were assaulted while preventing an escape from the Sac County Jail. 36-year-old Artis Karazins of Lake View, Iowa, was in the center holding cell. Around 3:00 PM, jail staff opened the food pass-through door to hand Karazins some paperwork. Karasin is seen on a jail cell video grabbing the arm of the jail staff member and pulling her into the cell door. The staff member received bruising on her forearm.
Later that evening, while serving meals, the same jailer is seen on video looking through the cell window to see where Karazins is located. As the jailer opens the pass-through to hand in the food tray, Karazins runs from his bunk and is able to get his head and a shoulder through the pass-through and crawling out of the pass-through before law enforcement, who were in the building at the time, could get to this cell unit. Karazins is seen chasing the jailer down the steps to the exit to the booking area, where two deputy sheriffs were opening the door. Karazins then charged them, with a physical altercation taking place. The deputies subdued Karazins and handcuffed him. Additional law enforcement was dispatched, as well as Sac County EMS. Karazins was transported to Loring Hospital for an evaluation. Woodbury County was transported to the Woodbury County Jail the following morning.
Karazins had been in the Sac County Jail since May 31, 2025, after being arrested by Lake View Police for two counts of criminal mischief 2nd degree and leaving the scene of an accident.
