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Witnesses told police that Gabriel Jason Rice attempted to force a woman into his car.
Kenneth Rader, 53, is charged in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia with four charges.
Nick Maybanks announces his run as the next elected Linn County attorney to lead the office. He was appointed by the Board of Xupervisors earlier this month to finish out Jerry Vander Sanden’s term, which ends in December. The top prosecutor is an elected position and will be on the November ballot.
A federal appeals panel Tuesday allowed the state of Iowa to enforce a law that prevents local schools from imposing mask mandates — but not for schools attended by students whose disabilities make them more vulnerable to severe illness if they get COVID-19.
Elijah D. O. Morse, 26, allegedly kicked in the door of a Hiawatha residence and took the resident’s phone, according to a criminal complaint.
A Cedar Rapids fugitive who fled the area in 2014 was extradited back last week and will face charges of selling synthetic marijuana and operating an illegal gambling business.
Cody M. Hughes, 29, faces a first-degree theft charge after the Coralville Police Department said he entered a vehicle the driver left running while picking up a to-go order at Mellow Mushroom.
Sheriff Brad Kunkel said the program, which has a targeted start date of April 1 and is funded with pandemic relief dollars, continues the county’s effort to find ways to divert people from jail and reduce the jail population, while also keeping victims safe.
The new law “does not discriminate on the basis of the viewpoint of the offender,” wrote District Judge Derek Johnson.
A federal judge gave a former registered nurse, who stole fentanyl from workplace to feed her own addiction, a lesser sentence of year years probation. Sabrina Thalblum faced more than two years in prison.
A Woodbury man, who was sentenced Friday to over 29 years for taking sexually explicit photos of a 13-year-old and sharing them online with an undercover police officer, told a judge he was “excited” to go to prison.
Lance Cpl. Gabe Heefner has “progressed a lot” since arriving at a rehabilitation hospital in Chicago two months ago but has likely plateaued, his father told The Gazette. The family hopes a cranioplasty surgery will “jumpstart his recovery.”
The Linn County Attorney’s Office has decided criminal charges are not warranted against a Cedar Rapids Police reserve officer who fired three shots at a man in a vehicle as the man struck the officer with his car Dec. 17.
The trial for a man charged with killing an Iowa State Patrol trooper will be moved out of Grundy County but a new location for the trial has not been determined.
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