CRPD: Man pointed AK-47 replica BB gun at officers responding to burglary

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids man pointed an AK-47 replica BB gun at officers responding to a violent burglary Saturday and threatened to kill them, according to a Linn County Attorney's Office criminal complaint.

Jeremy J. Haines, 38, is accused of tearing off a Ring doorbell camera at a man's home, kicking in a deadbolted door and then kicking the man in the face while they were on basement stairs. According to the complaint, both Haines' home and the alleged victim's home are at the same house number in southeast Cedar Rapids, near Mount Vernon Road SE.

When police arrived, Haines came out the side door of his residence, pointed a long gun at the officers — an AK-47 replica BB gun — and threatened to kill them, the complaint said.

Haines was arrested and taken to the Linn County Jail on charges of first-degree burglary with bodily injury, a Class B felony; two counts of assault on persons in certain occupations, Class D felonies; two counts of first-degree harassment while threatening a forcible felony, aggravated misdemeanors; and fourth-degree criminal mischief, a serious misdemeanor.

Haines is being held on $50,000 cash bond, according to jail records.