Brandon Lee impersonated a police officer to gain entry to their home
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Brandon Lee impersonated a police officer to gain entry to their home
Cedar Rapids woman charged with first-degree and robbery for conspiring and aiding Davenport man who fatally shot Cordal Lewis in January.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An judge on Friday set a hearing for January to consider whether to order prison for an 18-year-old sex-trafficking victim in Iowa who killed her rapist and pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury.
The trial for Jeremy Goodale, charged with killing his Spanish teacher in Fairfield, has been reset for May 15 in Scott County. The other teen charged, Willard Miller, will be tried March 6 in Pottawatomie County.
NEWSTRACK: The second-degree murder trial of Joshua Conklin, 29, of Cedar Rapids, is now set for Jan. 31 in Linn County District Court. He is accused in the 2019 slaying of a Cedar Rapids man staged to look like a suicide.
A Linn County jury took less than 90 minutes to convict Dimione Walker of first-degree murder in the April 10 fatal shooting of Michael Valentine inside the Taboo club in downtown Cedar Rapids. He reacted by smiling and almost laughing as the verdict was read.
A Marion man convicted in the 2018 murder of Chris Bagley pleaded guilty Thursday to charges he assaulted a drug informant in jail to prevent him from testifying against a drug dealer.
Two meat plant workers from Iowa and one from Georgia have filed a federal lawsuit accusing 11 of the United States’ largest beef and pork producers of conspiring to depress wages and benefits.
Follow Gazette Reporter Trish Mehaffey’s live coverage of Dimione Walker murder trial.
The defense called police officers to the witness stand as it started its case in the Dimione Walker murder trial. Police officers testified that the Cedar Rapids man Walker is accused of killing at the Taboo club was a suspect in a 2016 gun incident in which Walker was injured.
An autopsy showed Tuesday that Michael Valentine was shot five times and died from multiple gunshot injuries. Walker told police he wasn’t at the club that night and denied knowing Valentine.
Dimione Walker denied to police that he was the man in surveillance video of the fatal shooting of Michael Valentine in April inside the Taboo club in Cedar Rapids. He also denied knowing Valentine or shooting him in self-defense.
Follow Gazette Reporter Trish Mehaffey’s live coverage of the trial Tuesday.
The owner of Pints Bar in Iowa City was arrested early Sunday morning on charges that he served alcohol to three employees, who are minors.
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