Cedar Rapids investigators testify about laser scanner that helped them recreate deadly and confusing shootout involving a DoorDash driver, a customer and his brother, who is on trial for fatally shooting delivery driver.
Cedar Rapids police testified Thursday about the crime scene and evidence found outside a northeast side apartment complex Oct. 5, 2023, when they discovered a DoorDash delivery driver and customer fatally shot, and another man with severe gunshot injuries.
An Iowa City man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he attempted to meet a 16-year-old to engage in sex acts.
A 21-year-old DoorDash driver was “ambushed, surrounded and slaughtered” on Oct. 5, 2023, a prosecutor said during his opening in Cameron Leonard’s first-degree murder trial in Linn County District Court. Victim’s mother testifes she heard gunshots while talking to her son.
A federal lawsuit, which is the second for the City of Cedar Rapids involving former police dog Ace, was settled for $50,000. The dog bit a teen wrongly arrested in 2020. The settlement was approved Tuesday.
A Cedar Rapids man is charged with attempted murder and first-degree robbery after police say he stabbed a barbershop employee in the back with a knife.
One person was injured and one was arrested after a reported stabbing Monday in Cedar Rapids, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
A Decorah High School teacher was arrested last week on charges that he had an inappropriate, sexual relationship with one of his students, according to Decorah police.
Iowa prosecutors proposed a bill to make criminal groping a serious misdemeanor, which carries up to a year in jail -- but they had no idea it would face such pushback in the state House and Senate.
A Grimes man arrested Thursday in Cedar Rapids after an 11-hour standoff shot at Cedar Rapids police at least three times during the altercation, a criminal complaint filed Friday shows.
A man wanted on multiple warrants out of Polk County is in custody after an 11-hour standoff and shooting with Cedar Rapids police Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to a news release from the department.
A North Liberty man man, convicted in two Black Hawk County sexual assaults and serving 100 years in prison, pleaded this to sexual assault in Iowa City and faces up to an additional 60 years. He also has a pending trial for sexual assault in Linn County.
A Linn County jury deliberated about four hours Wednesday before finding Denzel Wilson guilty of first-degree murder. He faces life in prison without parole. The jury did acquit him of going armed with intent.
An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he repeatedly paid a 14-year-old girl to meet him for sexual acts.
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