Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Police Department

On July 1, Iowa will join 30 other states in outlawing any phone use while driving that isn’t hands-free. The law was passed earlier this year, and will replace Iowa’s current rules about phone usage while driving, which law enforcement officers say were difficult to enforce, since only texting was banned.

Cedar Rapids Police Chief David Dostal says third-party review is imminent to further improve operations

A 15-year-old Cedar Rapids girl vanished in 2001, leaving police with little or no clues as to whether she ran away or was abducted. The last person to see her was convicted in another cold case murder last year, but police don’t have any evidence that he was involved in the teen’s disappearance.

The 40-year-old went to a Cedar Rapids park earlier this year thinking he was going to meet a 14-year-old girl, criminal complaints say. He was met by police instead.

A Marion man who crashed into a vehicle, causing injuries to a woman that ended her pregnancy, is now facing indecent contact charges. He is accused of exposing himself to one child and having inappropriate contact with another.

Police in Cedar Rapids are investigating an early Sunday incident in which shots were fired in the 200 block of Second Avenue SE.

A New York man who sent sexually explicit photos and asked for some in exchange from a person he believed was a 14-year-old girl on an dating app last August has pleaded guilty. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Sunday on charges of domestic abuse after a four-hour standoff with Cedar Rapids police officers, according to authorities.

The Marion man had just talked to a police investigator before witnesses said he intentionally drove into westbound traffic, crashing into vehicle driven by a pregnant woman, court records show. Her serious injuries included the premature termination of her pregnancy.

A motorcyclist who was injured in a crash last week faces of a charge of making falsified reports after police say he incorrectly claimed he was run off the road by another vehicle, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

Members of the Cedar Rapids Police and Fire departments pulled a man to safety from the Third Avenue Bridge Friday. They had been speaking with the despondent man before he moved to a position where he was hanging from a ledge on the bridge.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department is asking witnesses to come forward about a crash that happened Wednesday in northwest Cedar Rapids.

The mother of Myron Snyder Jr., 21, said her grief is “just as bad” as the night her son was fatally shot while making a DoorDash delivery on Oct. 5, 2023. She said “not everything happens for a reason” because this was a “senseless, horrific and life-changing crime.”

The proposal, which would abolish a board formed in Cedar Rapids after Black Lives Matter protests, needs only Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signature to become law.

A 49-year-old Grimes man was sentenced to 50 years in prison, which is life sentence based on his age, for trying to kill 3 Cedar Rapids police officers in February during a standoff.