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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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.
Drew Wagner testified Monday he didn’t know Johnny Blahnik Church was serious about killing Chris Bagley in 2018, but he admitted he used a wrestling hold on Bagley while Blahnik Church fatally stabbed him. Andrew Shaw, Wagner said, then paid Blahnik Church cash, drugs and an SUV for the killing.
Aaron T. Rich, 22, had stolen a gun from southwest side store on Aug. 5 shortly before leading police on a chase in Cedar Rapids, police said. The chase ended with Rich being shot following a pursuit, in which he allegedly pointed a gun at officers.
A Cedar Rapids man, already convicted in the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in 2018, testified in court Friday that Bagley and Andrew Shaw were friends until Bagley started robbing, extorting him. Shaw is on trial for first-degree murder and other charges related to Bagley’s murder.
The fatal shooting of a Linn County man by law enforcement officers during a traffic stop near Cascade in Dubuque County last month was justified, according to a report issued Friday by the Iowa Attorney General’s Office.
“The why” as to fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley on Dec. 14, 2018 is one man, Andrew Shaw, a Linn County prosecutor said Thursday. Bagley had become a “liability” and Shaw is accused of paying two men to carry out his fatal stabbing.
A Fairfax man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he drove a stolen truck to and from a vehicle recycling center, and sold more than 20 vehicles to a recycling center without being properly licensed.
At least two people were shot in the home, Glenwood Police Chief Eric Johansen said.
Man still has other pending cases for domestic assault and violating sex offender registration requirements.
Hawkeye Waste reached a temporary agreement with the Johnson County Attorney’s Office when it purchased workers’ compensation insurance after the county asked a judge to shut down the business because operating without insurance is violating Iowa law.
A Coralville woman convicted for distributing “thousands“ of fentanyl pills in 2024 was sentenced this week to 7 years in federal prison. She transported the pills from Washington and was nabbed when she returned to Iowa.
The Linn County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday to approve an $850,000 settlement with the mother of a woman who died in the Linn County Jail in 2022.
The shooting happened following a pursuit which ended in the 1200 block of 15th St. SE around 5:50 p.m. Tuesday. The Iowa Division of Investigation will continue to investigate the incident.
The payment is one of the final pieces of a settlement agreement over a 2023 lawsuit that claimed the State of Iowa for decades had ‘disregarded the lack of mental and behavioral health services’ for children
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