Articles Tagged: 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?

The Cedar Rapids Police Department has arrested seven people as part of an operation targeting people who attempt to engage in sexual activities with minors, according to a news release from the department.

The sister of Josh Wellman, 35, of Cedar Rapids, makes a plea for any information - ‘any clue’ - of where to find her brother’s body.

The agreement for school resource officers in Cedar Rapids schools remains largely unchanged after the City Council and school board this week approved keeping an officer stationed at five schools.

A high speed chase that started in Johnson County Sunday ended with a small fire in Cedar Rapids when a Cedar Rapids Police vehicle crashed into a gas station, according to the Cedar Rapids Police Department.