Johnny Blahnik Church, formerly known as Drew Blahnik, was charged Tuesday for assaulting a drug informant in jail in an attempt to prevent him from testifying against a drug dealer.
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Johnny Blahnik Church, formerly known as Drew Blahnik, was charged Tuesday for assaulting a drug informant in jail in an attempt to prevent him from testifying against a drug dealer.
While two officers attempted to detain the man, he brandished a weapon and the officers fired their weapons. The type of weapon brandished was not specified in the news release.
A southern Iowa man is accused of sexually abusing six women, one teenager and one child between 2012 and 2020 in two southern Iowa counties.
Johnathan Mitchell pleaded guilty Monday to robbing a cab driver who was fatally stabbed during the crime in 2011. The case had been pending for six years, mostly due to Mitchell being found incompetent to stand trial. He fought taking prescribed anti-psychotic medications which maintained competency.
They hope for closure, justice in federal trial starting Monday
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating a Thursday night stabbing that left one person dead.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday on a warrant for a attempted murder after he led police on a foot chase. The man is accused of attempting to kill his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend by hitting him multiple times in the head with a baseball bat.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department responded to a report of shots fired near the intersection of I-380 and H Ave. on Wednesday just after 5 p.m.
A judge declared a mistrial this week after police officers, who were witnesses, recognized a juror as having associates connected to the defendant. The juror hadn’t revealed that during jury selection and also underreported her criminal history. She also posted on Facebook that she was on jury duty and wouldn’t convict “whoever” was on trial.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to three years probation after firing multiple shots at another man during a fight last year. Originally charged with attempted murder, he pleaded to two gun-related charges.
A retired University of Iowa music professor has been indicted in federal court on charges of distributing methamphetamine that resulted in a death and of possessing child pornography.
A judge won’t dismiss charges against a Chicago man accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old Iowa girl in 2015. The man argued the teen’s parents consented to their relationship, so he shouldn’t be charged.
Two officers shot twelve times at the man, who had pointed a gun at the officers and fired during a traffic stop.
A man who was arrested last week after barricading himself inside an Iowa church has been charged in an arrest warrant with killing his grandmother and great-grandmother in Omaha.
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