Computer forensics is a relatively new field in law enforcement, but it’s quickly become one of the most necessary, according to investigators on the Joint Forensic Analysis Cyber Team, or J-FACT, of Johnson County. The team has been busy since it formed in 2021, with its hands in almost every criminal case in the county.
The city of Cedar Rapids is assessing the certification status of Police Chief Wayne Jerman after he turned 66 this month.
A prosecutor asked for delay in the March 28 trial for Timothy Rush, who is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend and another man and also seriously injuring others April 10 inside the Taboo Nightclub and Lounge. Two key witnesses to the prosecution’s can’t testify later this month.
An Edgewood woman was arrested over the weekend on charges related to a fatal ATV crash that happened almost two years ago in Edgewood, Iowa.
The process Navigator CO2 Ventures used to notify landowners of their intentions to survey private properties was scrutinized Tuesday in the first of several expected court trials.
A Marion teen was arrested Monday on charges that he beat up his girlfriend then asked a friend to help dispose of her body, thinking she had died.
Two gang members charged in a deadly shooting at an educational program for at-risk youth in Des Moines appeared to be seeking retaliation after a rival gang member rapped dismissively about a fatal police shooting, new court documents suggest.
A retired federal prosecutor and a Drake law professor say the fatal stabbing of Devonna Walker don’t meet requirements for a hate crime or murder because the man who stabbed Lavonna Walker was reacting to being attacked.
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Alexander Jackson was sentenced to 3 consecutive life sentences for killing his father, mother and sister in June 2021 in their northeast Cedar Rapids home He declined to make a statement during the Friday sentencing hearing.
Alexander Jackson, convicted of killing his parents and sister in 2021, faces three life sentences.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested this week on charges that he, while drunk, backed a car into a pregnant woman who had fallen out of the vehicle, causing life-threatening injuries.
Trial is reset to April for one Fairfield teen accused of beating their Spanish teacher with a baseball bat in 2021. The trial is expected to last 10 days.
A judge set a $1 million cash only bond for a Cedar Rapids man charged in the beating and fatal stabbing of Dennis First in 2007.
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