One person was injured Saturday night in a shooting in southwest Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
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One person was injured Saturday night in a shooting in southwest Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
The shooting occurred near Kirkwood Community College, which sent a public safety bulletin saying officials did not believe the incident presented an active threat to the campus.
A 19-year-old was sentenced to over 4 years in federal prison for supplying stolen gun to another during a “rival gang” shooting incident. Nobody was injured in the July 9, 2023, gunshots fired on the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall. Authorities found firearms and ammunition in the teen’s home, which led to the federal charges.
A Des Moines lawyer was indicted in Ohio on Friday for his involvement with online groups who create and distribute “animal crush videos.” The videos involve monkeys being tortured, mutilated and sexually abused.
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.
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