Police said 35-year-old Dante Leavy Martin attempted to rob a man at gunpoint Monday night outside a Hawkeye Convenience Store in southeast Cedar Rapids.
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Police said 35-year-old Dante Leavy Martin attempted to rob a man at gunpoint Monday night outside a Hawkeye Convenience Store in southeast Cedar Rapids.
Judge denies appeal for landlord, Charles Davisson, on the four properties he couldn’t rent for six months because of nuisance issues. Two of those are no longer rentals, one was rented after suspension and one can’t be rented until over $2,000 in fees are paid.
Bryan Bolling, charged with nine counts of sexual abuse, pleaded guilty to two counts and faces up to 20 years in prison. He sexually abused a girl who was 12 or 13 years old at the time.
Cedar Rapids man, who fired multiple shots into a Westdale Court apartment, hitting one man, pleaded to lesser charges and faces up to 17 years in prison.
No one was injured; police are investigating
A former Cedar Rapids nurse is accused of stealing opioids from hospitals and oxycodone from an assisted living patient. She will be arraigned on charges next week in federal court.
Judge says he’ll likely allow Drew Blahnik, convicted of killing Chris Bagley, to change his name to Johnny Blahnik Church until after Blahnik is sentenced Oct. 12 in the fatal stabbing of Bagley in December 2018. Blahnik wants the name change to further his acting career, even though he faces up to 54 years in prison.
Penny Galvin has led the Survivors’ Program, which helps families and friends who have lost loved ones to homicides and vehicular homicides, since 2009.
Howard T. Cones was sleeping under a picnic table in Poets Park when police dog, Ace, attacked him, leaving deep lacerations on his elbow.
Marion man will spend 1 year in federal prison for stealing pistol last year when he worked at Fleet Farm. The incident was captured on store video.
Sully the Russian tortoise and Ginny the African pygmy hedgehog were taken from the Old MacDonald’s Farm barn at Bever Park sometime between 12:30 and 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Two Iowa men accused of using bad checks to buy more than $800 in lottery tickets saw a total profit of $134 after winning on some of the tickets, Cerro Gordo County authorities said.
Deputies said Jonathan P. Soucie, 42, was driving on the interstate at more than 100 mph.
A judge ruled in favor of an Indiana man who asked the court not to combine his harassment case with his first-degree murder case. Prosecutors argued the harassment charge shows a motive for fatally shooting Tommy Curry, who was allegedly lured to his death by a “date,” n April 28.
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