A Linn County jury took only 90 minutes to convict a Hiawatha man of human trafficking a 17-year-old Dubuque girl. The teen testified last week Jarod Anderson, 35, of Hiawatha, had forced her to have sex with multiple men in May 2024 and also sexually abused her.
A Marion man wants his confession tossed out because investigators violated his rights. Investigators didn’t read his rights until 40 minutes into his statement, according to motion to suppress.
Ashley and Joshua Drew admitted they locked a 16-year-old boy in his bedroom and withheld food. The boy lost mobility in his legs and was severely underweight at 76 pounds.
Explicit photos, messages about prostitution on his phone weren’t his, he says
A Hiawatha man, during a police interview, said he had nothing to do with prostitution or sex trafficking a Dubuque teen, but an investigator testified his phone showed numerous conversations with customers wanting sexual acts in exchange for money.
An Iowa City man was arrested Monday after a 16-year-old boy, who had chatted with the man online while posing as a 14-year-old girl, reported him to the Iowa City Police Department.
A Cedar Rapids woman testified she met a Hiawatha man, who is on trial this week for human trafficking, after she was “past rock bottom” and agreed to work as a prostitute for him. She said he recruited a 17-year-old to work with her.
A man who was wanted in relation to a stabbing in Marion last year was arrested Friday by United State’s Marshals in Indiana, according to a news release from the U.S. Marshals Service.
Two people were arrested this weekend on charges that they took guns to an apartment in Cedar Rapids where they believed there were narcotics and attempted to break in.
A West Branch nursing home is being sued over an incident in which an intruder was able to enter the home, undress and climb into bed with a resident.
The settlement agreement resolves a 2023 lawsuit that accused the State of Iowa of failing to provide federally required mental and behavioral health care services for Medicaid-eligible children
A federal judge sentenced a Wisconsin man to 12 years for stealing a California man’s identity for 35 years. He also must pay a $10,000 fine and restitution to the victim.
A Johnson County jury convicts a Cedar Rapids man of strangling and sexually assaulting a woman who was walking home on Oct. 7, 2023. He sexually assaulted her outside a downtown bar.
The Iowa City Police Department is seeking the public’s help identifying an individual who was involved in an armed robbery earlier this week at a Casey’s.
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