The Iowa City Police Department was one of several law enforcement agencies across the country who helped with the investigation of four men, who have now been charged and sentenced, that police say scammed victims in several states by pretending to be law enforcement officers.
Megan Hoffman testified Thursday about tracking her daughter’s phone the night Melody Hoffman was kidnapped, strangled and killed in February 2014. The information helped police piece together the crime.
Prosecutor, during his opening, says Dakota Van Patten and McKinley Louisma couldn’t have beaten, tortured and killed a 20-year-old Marion woman without the other.
An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he had multiple videos of child pornography saved in an app on his phone.
The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so “degraded and contaminated” that traditional DNA testing couldn’t help investigators identify the infant or his mother. Advanced testing developed by a Texas lab in 2018 helped investigators identify the mother, who was arrested last week.
A man detained by authorities days after he nearly died in an Iowa shooting is one of a growing number of crime victims who have been targeted in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Darin Luneckas enjoys the challenge of helping an injured worker going up against a big insurance company that is refusing to pay for proper medical care and loss wages.
Iowa’s recidivism rate hit a 10-year low in the state’s most recent figures, but criminal justice experts say recidivism rates are limited in their portrayal of a criminal justice or state correctional system.
A Cedar Rapids man is facing charges after police say he attempted to meet up with what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex.
The City of Cedar Rapids’ code enforcement manager is charged with insurance fraud and forgery. He submitted false medicine prescriptions for a pet that the vet didn’t authorize.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder after a fatal shooting in northeast Cedar Rapids.
A sheriff’s sale will be held this fall for several high-profile downtown Iowa City properties, including The Chauncey, following a foreclosure ruling on the properties earlier this year.
A woman has been arrested after DNA testing connected her to a baby that was found dead in the Iowa City landfill in 1992.
The big brother of 16-year-old Michael McCune, who was targeted by four juveniles and fatally shot in 2023, said during a sentencing hearing Monday it’s not fair that he can only look at a gravestone, instead of seeing his brother’s smile that “lit up a room.”
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