He distributed the ice meth in Marion and Cedar Rapids throughout 2023.
Trish Mehaffey Crime & Courts Aug. 19, 2025 3:38 pm116d ago
He distributed the ice meth in Marion and Cedar Rapids throughout 2023.
By RYAN J. FOLEY and EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press News Aug. 19, 2025 8:49 am116d ago
The U.S. gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.
Crime & Courts Aug. 21, 2025 9:53 am114d ago
Johnny Blahnik Church, formerly known as Drew Blahnik, who was convicted for killing Chris Bagley in 2018, told a grand jury in 2019 that Andrew Shaw wasn’t involved in Bagley’s killing in any way.
Crime & Courts Aug. 18, 2025 12:14 pm117d ago
Five people sustained what are believed to be minor injuries after a man intentionally drove into them following a dispute Friday night in Iowa City.
Crime & Courts Aug. 19, 2025 1:46 pm116d ago
In Andrew Shaw’s first-degree murder trial Friday, jurors heard details of the 17 stab wounds that damaged Chris Bagley’s airway, slashed his jugular vein and penetrated his heart, lung and other organs. In other testimony, two former inmates said Shaw made comments to them about paying someone to kill Bagley in 2018.
Local Government Aug. 18, 2025 3:26 pm117d ago
According to a report presented to the Johnson County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee this week, a joint law enforcement facility shared by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa City Police Department could cost around $106 million.
Crime & Courts Aug. 18, 2025 2:59 pm117d ago
Andrew Shaw, during a police interview, denied hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018. He told investigators he wanted someone to beat Bagley up but never asked Drew Wagner or Johnny Blahnik Church to do it.
Crime & Courts Aug. 14, 2025 7:30 am121d ago
Paul Hoff’s account of the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in December 2018 differed from that told by Drew Wagner, who testified earlier this week in the first-degree murder trial of Andrew Shaw, who’s accused of hiring two men to kill Bagley.
Crime & Courts Aug. 13, 2025 7:21 am122d ago
Drew Wagner, testifying in the Andrew Shaw murder trial, said he didn’t give police investigators all the details in the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in 2018 because he was scared. Testimony continued Wednesday in Cedar Rapids.
Crime & Courts Aug. 13, 2025 7:32 am122d ago
A juvenile male was taken into custody after police recovered a gun at the scene of the shooting behind a shopping center around 6:20 p.m. Monday night.
By Jeff Reinitz, - Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Crime & Courts Aug. 12, 2025 1:42 pm123d ago
A Cedar Rapids man has been arrested in connection with a Waterloo shooting that injured two people in late July.
Crime & Courts Aug. 13, 2025 7:43 am122d ago
A Shellsburg man, set to start trial today in Johnson County for helping his lover kill her husband in June of 2021, unexpectedly pleaded guilty and faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Crime & Courts Aug. 12, 2025 1:39 pm123d ago
Police say a St. Louis man arrived at a pre-determined meeting place in Iowa City Monday afternoon where he was taken into custody.
Crime & Courts Aug. 12, 2025 7:31 am123d ago
ID show “911 Did The Killer Call?” focuses Tuesday on the Eastern Iowa murder of a Marengo man who was fatally assaulted by his girlfriend, her son and his friend in July 2009.
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