Articles Tagged: Iowa City Police Department

The former West High School paraeducator had a sexual relationship with a student in 2023.

A former Iowa City woman was extradited from Missouri to Iowa City and formally charged with first-degree murder in the 1992 death of an infant found at the city’s landfill.

The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so “degraded and contaminated” that traditional DNA testing couldn’t help investigators identify the infant or his mother. Advanced testing developed by a Texas lab in 2018 helped investigators identify the mother, who was arrested last week.

The Iowa City Council is contemplating whether to take the Johnson County Board of Supervisors up on its formal invitation to establish a joint law enforcement authority to explore the possibility of a new law enforcement facility shared by both entities.

The Iowa City Police Department is investigating a death after a body was found in Sand Lake, near the Park Lodge in the Terry Trueblood Recreation Area, according to a press release from the city of Iowa City.

A woman has been arrested after DNA testing connected her to a baby that was found dead in the Iowa City landfill in 1992.

A 17-year-old and another juvenile were the first arrests in connection with a targeted shooting that happened just before 3 a.m. in Iowa City. Additional arrests are anticipated, police said.

More than 74 percent of Johnson County residents would support a bond measure to build a new county sheriff’s office and jail, according to draft results from a community survey commissioned by the Board of Supervisors.

Five people sustained what are believed to be minor injuries after a man intentionally drove into them following a dispute Friday night in Iowa City.

According to a report presented to the Johnson County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee this week, a joint law enforcement facility shared by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa City Police Department could cost around $106 million.

A juvenile male was taken into custody after police recovered a gun at the scene of the shooting behind a shopping center around 6:20 p.m. Monday night.

Iowa City Police are investigating a shooting just before 3 a.m. Sunday in which four people were injured in the 600 block of E. Court St.

An Iowa City man was sentenced to nearly 17 years in federal prison for distributing and receiving child porn. He electronic devices contained “hundreds” of images, including children under age 1.

The Iowa City Police Department is asking for the public’s help finding information related to the fatal shooting of an Iowa City woman in December.

Iowa is one of 31 states in the U.S. that requires vehicles to have two license plates displayed while driving — one on the front and one on the back of the car — with very few exceptions.