A 14-year-old boy who admitted to firing a handgun at a police officer in May pleaded to three felonies and six misdemeanors. He was prosecuted as a youthful offender and will be sent to the Boys State Training School in Eldora until he turns 18.
A Springville man who was charged last week with burglary for going into his girlfriend’s home without permission, has now been charged with offering her a $10,000 bribe if she drops the charges in the burglary case.
An Iowa City man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for a several burglaries and thefts at local businesses. Police say he was selling the stolen items to support himself. The stolen items totaled over $100,000.
There has recently been an uptick in car burglaries, in which items are stolen out of parked cars, in North Liberty and the surrounding areas, according to a news release from the North Liberty Police Department.
A proposed bill would prevent earned or good time credit from being applied to mandatory mininums for habitual, repeat and violent offenders.
Haines 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.
A Cedar Rapids man, who beat a man with a vacuum attachment, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and was ordered to pay $1,125 in victim restitution.
A Cedar Rapids man was found passed out in a stolen vehicle at a Marion park before fleeing from officers and breaking into a Cedar Rapids home while armed with a rifle, according to a Linn County criminal complaint.
The female intruder was wearing gloves and “indicated she was going to take the victim's computer to make Christian music with it.”
Police said Beard used a can of white spray paint to cover decals on the truck and had attempted to alter the license plate.
A Cedar Rapids man faces charges of first-degree burglary and assault while displaying a dangerous weapon based on allegations he assaulted a woman Thursday at her apartment in Cedar Rapids.
Two Oxford teens have been arrested over the weekend in connection with a string of attempted vehicle burglaries in Tiffin.
Anthony L. McCombs, 28, is accused of breaking into the Gazette office on Saturday.
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