A grand jury declines to bring charges against a Tama County deputy who fatally shot a Chelsea man during a standoff last year. Authorities said the deputy fired his weapon after the man fired his handgun during the standoff.
Two correctional officers were assaulted by an inmate Saturday night at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville.
A Cedar Rapids man is accused of driving his car toward a police officer who fired his gun at the car. Investigators identified the suspect through video and other evidence found during the investigation, according to police.
A Vinton man, indicted with 10 others to distribute heroin and fentanyl between 2017 and last year, pleaded Friday in federal court. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
A 26-year-old Cedar Rapids man stabbed his 65-year-old father in the stomach early Friday during an argument, police said. The son was arrested on possible charges of attempted murder, willful injury and assault-domestic abuse.
17-year-old Ethan Alexander Orton, charged with killing his parents with a knife and ax, is competent to stand trial, a judge said Friday. His trial is set for Feb. 8 but that may be reset, his attorneys said.
A Cedar Rapids man is charged after authorities said they found 16 pounds of ice meth concealed in his house, along with $200,000 in a toddler’s room.
A Cedar Rapids man who forced his way into a Coggon couple’s home by impersonating an officer and then assaulted them as he demanded they take him to a safe in their home, was formally charged Thursday. If convicted, he faces up to 82 years in prison.
Thomas Dean Jesse, 37, is charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said were recorded on video between March 2020 and September 2021.
Brandon W. Lee, 33, was taken into custody without incident at about 1:15 p.m. at 2429 Reynolds Ave. SW in Cedar Rapids.
Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen tells legislators “the court system is 100 percent fully operational, but we are continuing some practices adopted on an emergency basis” to keep proceedings moving “without jeopardizing health or conflicting with their work schedules.”
A Cedar Rapids man, who was nabbed in a wiretap investigation for distributing heroin, was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison.
Black Hawk County sheriff’s deputies arrested 38-year-old Nolan Otto Dewall on Monday on one count of livestock neglect, a misdemeanor.
An Urbana man charged with hitting and killing a Center Point woman and injuring her boyfriend in a bar parking lot in 2019 will plead later this month.
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