An Iowa City police officer was legally justified earlier this summer in shooting and injuring an armed man who was threatening suicide but refused more than a dozen orders to drop his gun, Johnson County Attorney Rachel Zimmerman Smith determined.
An Illinois man, who qualified as a career offender with three drug convictions, was sentenced to over 13 years in federal prison. He distributed what appeared to be heroin to a regular buyer who overdosed because the drug contained fentanyl.
A 25-year-old Cedar Rapids man pleaded to five charges in three separate cases Thursday and faces up to 20 years in prison.
An Iowa City man, who changed his name in 2022, was convicted this week in California for embezzling millions from his former employer by setting up shell companies to make it look like those funds were going to the company.
An Iowa City man has been charged with second-degree sexual abuse after police say he enticed two girls under age 13 into a residence and sexually abused one of them.
A Cedar Rapids man, who has been previously convicted in state court for shooting man, will remain in jail pending his October federal trial for distributing drugs near schools. He has been a fugitive for months and was arrested by U.S. marshals in July.
Officials haven’t said how the teen died — or whether they’ve found her body.
A woman, during her former fiance’s sentencing on Tuesday, said he blames alcohol for his behavior in April but there’s no excuse for him kicking, punching and stomping on her, causing multiple face, eye, rib and neck injuries. She still has emotional trauma from that night.
A Marion man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for trying to kill a man, but instead, struck his victim’s mother in both her legs. He must serve a mandatory 5 years before being eligible for parole.
A Johnson County judge faced the question of whether to make an example of driver Drake Brezina or a testament of him — to make him pay behind bars, or behind a microphone, sharing the tragic consequences of his decision to focus on his phone instead of the road.
A Marion man who was arrested in June on charges that he bludgeoned four people to death with a metal pipe has been cleared to stand trial after being evaluated by a psychologist.
After years of delays for mental competency proceedings and from efforts to keep his statements to police from being used at trial, Anthony Depolis, 34, on Friday pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his wife in July 2020.
Also, Iowa’s unemployment rate holds steady for a 4th straight month
A Marion man has been arrested in connection with a Saturday shooting in Waterloo that sent one person to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the knee.
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