The homicide case will be closed with no prosecution because suspect George Smith died in 2013 at the age of 94, police said.
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The homicide case will be closed with no prosecution because suspect George Smith died in 2013 at the age of 94, police said.
Judge sentences a Cedar Rapids man to 34 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman who was incapacitated as he repeatedly assaulted her and filmed the crimes.
Hooded man tried to grab a 2-year-old child off the sidewalk, family said.
No one has come forward to help police identify the assailant or assailants who opened fire Friday night at a birthday party at a southwest quadrant hotel, wounding six people
Cedar Rapids police provided few details, but said those injured were taken to the hospital with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries.
Retrial for Greg Davi,s accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in 2017, will not go forward next month. Defense is waiting on reports from experts and asked the court to dismiss the murder charge based on one expert, who says former girlfriend Carrie Davis was already dead when Davis stabbed her 26 times.
A plea deal in the works for Cedar Rapids man charged with fatally shooting another man over a pack of cigarettes. No details of possible plea but hearing is set for Oct. 8.
Investigators searching for 10-year-old Xavior Harrelson, who vanished in May days before his 11th birthday, said Thursday they have found human remains matching his description in a nearby cornfield.
Cedar Rapids man nabbed with over 2 kilos of marijuana and loaded handgun sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison.
The ruling this week in the contempt-of-court case against Pamela and Thomas Sellner comes three days after the Iowa Supreme Court declined to review a lower court decision in the case that led to zoo’s closure in 2019.
, 26, was found guilty of first-degree murder and going armed with intent of shooting a man outside of a convenience store in Cedar Rapids in 2019. The judge, in her Wednesday ruling, rejected Jenkins’ claim of self-defense.
A 30-year-old Iowa City man was convicted of 4 counts of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of second-degree sexual abuse of two girls, ages 9 and 12. He faces up to four life sentences without chance of parole and another 25 years.
The assault happened on May 1, while Denoyer was employed and on-duty as an Eldridge Police Officer, according to an arrest affidavit.
A man convicted in May for sexual abuse of an 18-year-old woman in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday for another sexual assault that happened a few months later that same year. He faces up to 12 years in prison on both.
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