Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Police Department

A juvenile who made an online threat against Taft Middle School Monday could face charges, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

A Cedar Rapids man has died a week after he was hit by a vehicle while crossing the street, according to the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

Police received reports Monday afternoon of gunfire in northeast Cedar Rapids and responding officers found a juvenile with minor injuries.

The city of Cedar Rapids has submitted an appeal to the Iowa Department of Transportation to approve the use of two automated traffic enforcement cameras that were rejected last month.

A young man was injured Thursday night in a shooting in southeast Cedar Rapids, according to police.

A 72-year-old man was hospitalized with serious injuries after he was hit by a car while walking Wednesday morning in southeast Cedar Rapids, according to a Facebook post from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

No injuries from the shooting were reported, but police said several businesses closed their doors during the incident to protest patrons.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on two counts of attempted murder in relation to a shooting that happened in July.

A Cedar Rapids man who attempted to solicit sex from a 14-year-old boy, who was actually an undercover police officer targeting child predators online, pleaded guilty Thursday. He faces up to 14 years in prison. He was one of seven arrested in the police sting.

A Cedar Rapids man who is charged with vehicular homicide after a fatal crash last month had a .189 blood alcohol level more than two hours after the crash, according to a criminal complaint.

More than a month after a motorcyclist was killed in a southwest Cedar Rapids crash, the driver of a sport utility vehicle police said cut in front of him was booked Wednesday into the Linn County Jail.

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.