A Montezuma man was arrested this week on charges that he supplied potent morphine to his fiancee in 2020, which resulted in her death.
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A Montezuma man was arrested this week on charges that he supplied potent morphine to his fiancee in 2020, which resulted in her death.
New York’s attorney general sued former President Donald Trump and his company on Wednesday, alleging business fraud involving some of their most prized assets, including properties in Manhattan, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
“I basically intended on being the poster boy, and it really worked out,” Doug Jensen said, according to a transcript of the interview on Jan. 8, 2021.
A Chicago pharmacologist, testifying for the defense, said Tuesday that a Marion woman died from the high level of meth in her system, instead of the 26 stabbing injuries that an autopsy stated was her cause of death.
A forensic psychiatrist testified Monday that a Marion man couldn’t distinguish right from wrong when he killed his ex-girlfriend in 2017 and that he was suffering from meth-induced psychosis when he stabbed her 26 times.
Smith was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. Wednesday after being admitted earlier in the week “for an acute illness related to a chronic medical condition”
A California man pleaded to a drug conspiracy charge after being nabbed at the LA airport for trying to smuggle meth onto a plane. He is one of 11 men charged in Cedar Rapids meth trafficking ring.
A judge will review an independent competency exam of Cedar Rapids man, who was convicted last year for sex assault of incapacitated Iowa City woman and video recording it, to determine if can stand trial in three more sex assault trials.
A deputy medical examiner said 26 stab injuries to 29-year-old Carrie Davis were “sufficient” to kill her.
Donations are pouring in to help a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim who was ordered by a court to pay $150,000 to the family of a man she stabbed to death after he raped her.
A former Cedar Rapids man who fled the country over 7 years ago was convicted this week for distributing synthetic marijuana from a smoke shop.
Mother of Marion man on trial for murder says she suspected he killed his girlfriend and concealed it in a roll of carpet after seeing it on a trailer in her driveway.
The group filed the brief as Gov. Kim Reynolds is asking the courts to lift an injunction on a so-called fetal heartbeat law
A 49-year-old Cedar Rapids man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he offered to pay a 14-year-old for sex at a Marion park.
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