Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Police Department

Cameras that can read license plates and automatically run them through police databases are becoming more common across the U.S., and raising concerns about privacy. They’ve started to pop up in Iowa in the recent years. The University of Iowa installed 28 cameras this year, and Marshalltown plans to add 32 in the near future.

A Cedar Rapids motorcyclist who crashed into a bus Wednesday while fleeing from Cedar Rapids Police has died from his injuries, according to a news release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.

A motorcyclist who fled from Cedar Rapids Police officers Wednesday was seriously injured when he crashed into a bus in Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.

A motorcyclist was injured Wednesday afternoon after crashing into a bus near the intersection of O Ave and Ellis Blvd NW, Cedar Rapids.

Police say it’s because of the seriousness of the offenses students are committing.

Violent crime and gun violence in Cedar Rapids are down significantly from last year’s numbers, according to a report delivered by the interim police chief to a City Council committee.

The identities of three adults who were killed in a crash in Cedar Rapids Friday night have been released by the Cedar Rapids Police Department. The crash also killed a 13-year-old, whose name was not released by police but who was identified on a GoFundMe page started on behalf of his family.

A GoFundMe page on social media has raised over $13,000 for the family.

After about eight months without a permanent police chief, the city of Cedar Rapids is choosing finalists from a pool of 17 applicants in its search for someone new to lead the police department.

A Cedar Rapids man, who fired multiple shots with pellet gun at a neighbor’s house and additional shots at the police officers who responded, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.

About 2:30 p.m. Monday, Cedar Rapids police tried to stop a black Ford Edge being driven near downtown.

Cedar Rapids police and firefighters responded at 6:21 p.m. Friday to the area near Highway 30 and 21st Street SW to a report of a single-car crash.

A Door Dash delivery driver who was killed in October in a targeted shooting in Cedar Rapids had been shot six times by the time he died, according to a criminal complaint against Cameron Leonard, one of the alleged shooters.

A Cedar Rapids man has been charged with vehicular homicide and operating while intoxicated after his vehicle struck two pedestrians in the road Sunday, killing one and injuring the other.

A man who was injured in a deadly shooting last month at an apartment complex’s parking lot was arrested Thursday and faces a first-degree murder charge over one of the two people killed.