The unsolved murder of Willie Brocks, who was fatally shot in November 1999 has come full circle for a Cedar Rapids investigator who responded to the crime scene as a rookie and now has been actively following up on the case. He has a person of interest who may be able to identify the shooter.
Samantha Shannon has been working as a mental health liaison with the Cedar Rapids Police Department for a little over three years, and she has yet to experience two days where the job feels the same.
A Cedar Rapids man who had an outstanding warrant for domestic abuse, now faces 10 more charges for beating and sexually assaulting a woman because she didn’t do what he wanted.
A motorcyclist was killed Wednesday night in a crash with an SUV in southwest Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday after a standoff with police that started when Cedar Rapids police responded to reports of a violent domestic situation.
A 16-year-old has been charged in adult court in relation to a shooting that injured a 13-year-old on Saturday in Cedar Rapids.
A 13-year-old was shot in the leg Saturday night in northeast Cedar Rapids and police arrested a 17-year-old in connection with the shooting.
A Cedar Rapids man was charged for eluding officers after leading them on a high-speed chase on a motorcycle Friday night.
The shooting killed David Vanderhamm and injured his stepfather, John Coppes. A review by the Iowa Attorney General’s Office cleared the three Cedar Rapids officers involved in the shooting.
Two people were arrested Thursday on human trafficking charges after police say they brought a minor from Dubuque to Cedar Rapids and forced her into prostitution.
Police in Eastern Iowa are seeing an increase this year in calls for service related to toy guns, especially gel blasters — fake guns that shoot small gel balls.
A federal judge declared a mistrial when a jury in June deadlocked over whether a K-9 officer used excessive force when he deployed his dog on a 13-year-old boy who was misidentified as being involved in a stolen car incident in August 2020.
The Cedar Rapids Fire Department saw a slight increase in fireworks related calls between July 1 and July 5 this year, compared with last year. But the calls are still down from previous years.
Local families still waiting for their loved ones’ murders to be solved support the Iowa Attorney General’s Office setting up a statewide cold case unit. The new unit, announced last month, was being touted Tuesday in Cedar Rapids.
With input from bar owners, Cedar Rapids Police Chief David Dostal said police are more proactively patrolling downtown and have put in place other measures to address public safety issues around downtown bars on weekend nights. Have these steps worked?
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