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.
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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.
The case against Jarod Anderson, 35, which got underway this week in Cedar Rapids, is the first in Iowa under a 2023 law that increases the penalties for human trafficking of a minor to a Class A felony — punishable by life in prison without the possibility of parole.
An 18-year-old pleaded guilty this week to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl last March. He faces up to 10 years in prison. His sentencing is set for March 24.
Two men have been arrested in relation to an assault in the Iowa City Ped Mall in December, and police are seeking the public’s help to identify another person of interest in the case, according to a news release from the Iowa City Police Department.
CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids teen, after turning down two previous plea agreements, accepted one Tuesday, admitting he planned with three other teens to kill 16-year-old Michael Alexander McCune in 2023.
Appeals court upholds life sentence with 25 year mandatory minimum for Jeremy Goodale in “heinous” killing of Fairfield High Spanish teacher’s with a baseball bat.
Appeals court dismisses one trafficking in stolen weapons conviction for Stanley Donahue, who tried to kill a Linn County sheriff’s deputy during a convenience store robbery in 2021. His other nine convictions were upheld and his sentence remains 92 years in prison.
A former Johnson County emergency management and fire official who was serving a prison sentence for fatally shooting his girlfriend in 2011, died last week. Thomas Lee Hansen Sr., 84, died Jan. 22.
The episode began about 8 a.m. Sunday as a Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Office deputy stopped the driver of a pickup truck for speeding near Storm Lake. But the driver threatened police and sped off — going 98 mph in a 45 mph zone, court records show.
Iowa City police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred Sunday.
An analysis and comparison of the shell casings and a palm print led police to one suspect in the May 2020 murder and burglaries -- Damontie Lee Haggstrom-Wells, 22, of Cedar Rapids, who was charged in 2023.
States, including Iowa, respond with harsher penalties
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