An owner of a commercial dog breeding farm pleads to five charges of animal neglect and received a year of probation. He surrendered 131 dogs last year.
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An owner of a commercial dog breeding farm pleads to five charges of animal neglect and received a year of probation. He surrendered 131 dogs last year.
Law enforcement agencies in Linn County are working together this week to check in with every registered sex offender in the county and ensure compliance with sex offender registry requirements.
A friend of one of the women killed last week near Marion says the woman and her boyfriend, also killed, had been evicted from their residence last year and had been living in the outbuilding where they were bludgeoned with a metal pipe. She didn’t know of any connection they had with the accused killer.
A man was arrested Tuesday morning after a two hour standoff with police at a Marion apartment building, according to a news release from the Marion Police Department.
He faces up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced by Judge Maryellen Noreika, though first-time offenders do not get anywhere near the maximum, and it’s unclear whether she would give him time behind bars.
A Marion man was arrested Monday on charges that he robbed a Marion gas station at gunpoint in May.
Set to go into effect July 1, the law would allow state and local officials to deport immigrants who previously were deported or entered the country illegally
A high speed chase that started in Johnson County Sunday ended with a small fire in Cedar Rapids when a Cedar Rapids Police vehicle crashed into a gas station, according to the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
Her appeal claimed her case was prejudiced by the jury being mistakenly instructed that hugs are a form of sexual conduct and by the exclusion from evidence of the initial findings of a school investigation. She also argued there was insufficient evidence that her behavior elicited a pattern of sexual conduct.
The suspect in quadruple murder is due now back in court to face upgraded charges.
Retired Linn County Chief Public Defender Brian Sissel suddenly died of a heart attack this week. Judges, friends, co-workers and court staff fondly remember Sissel as “zealous advocate’ for his clients and being a ‘sincere, positive energy force’ who could lighten the mood with his ‘infectious laugh.’
Shane Teslik was sentenced to 10 years for fatally stabbing Devonna Walker. Walker’s mother said the ‘heartless, racist act of violence has devastated’ her family. She is now caring for Walker’s three children.
A Marion man is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in fatal pipe attack Wednesday in an outbuilding on a Marion property. He is being held on a $4 million cash-only bail pending trial.
An Illinois man who fatally shot a Fareway employee outside the store in Monicello last year pleaded to first-degree murder and was immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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