Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Police Department

An analysis and comparison of the shell casings and a palm print led police to one suspect in the May 2020 murder and burglaries -- Damontie Lee Haggstrom-Wells, 22, of Cedar Rapids, who was charged in 2023.

According to search warrants filed in both cases, the Mobile Assist Team with the Cedar Rapids Police Department has been running an online operation to catch sexual predators by making false accounts on online dating apps and chat rooms where people seek dates, relationships and sex.

A judge has sentenced a Cedar Rapids man who solicited a girl he thought was 15 to three years of probation -- instead of a possible five years in prison -- for the felony.

A New York man was arrested this month in Cedar Rapids on charges that he sent inappropriate images to a person he believed was a 14 year old girl. It was actually a Cedar Rapids police officer in an online site.

The city of Cedar Rapids saw a notable decrease in 2024 in cases of violent crime — including murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault — and police are anticipating similar numbers in 2025 with the help of increased technology use, including the addition of several license plate reading cameras to the city.

A Cedar Rapids man pleaded to child endangerment charges for breaking his infant son’s ribs, legs and holding his throat, preventing him from breathing because the child wouldn’t stop crying. He admitted to police multiple acts of physical abuse. He faces up to 35 years in prison.

A juvenile was injured Friday in a shooting in northeast Cedar Rapids according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested last week after police say he attempted to persuade, entice, coerce or solicit a law enforcement officer posing as a 15-year-old girl on a dating app into performing sexual acts.

Someone was struck by a vehicle Friday afternoon on the west side of Cedar Rapids, but police officials have thus far declined to reveal what happened and who was involved.

A Cedar Rapids landlord found his first-floor tenant, Dorothy J. Rose, 43, lying face down in her apartment on Nov. 28, 2006. Police found Rose had been strangled with an electrical cord and another item. The murder remains unsolved but is being reviewed again by cold case investigators.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department released crime statistics this week for 2024, up through the end of November. All six of the included crime categories, including homicides, have decreased from previous years.

A 15-year-old was arrested Saturday night after crashing a stolen car into a house in southeast Cedar Rapids while fleeing from officers, according to the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

One person is dead after a single-vehicle crash Sunday night in southwest Cedar Rapids, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

Police were called at 7:28 a.m. Tuesday to the restaurant at 1316 First Ave. NE, where witnesses reported a person robbed the store with a handgun and fled.

McKinley Louisma’s phone also shows messages exchanged with victim