Articles Tagged: Criminal Cases

The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Iowa collected over $11 million and jointly with other offices and agencies of the Department of Justice, it recovered nearly $27 million.

Two Linn assistant prosecutors received service awards for their “grit, determination and goundbreaking“ work on murder and homicide cases. One received a staff merit award from the Iowa County Attorney’s Association and the other the Outstanding Anti-Trafficking Service Award from Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Sex abuse charges against a former Marion man were dropped because he was found dead in his residence in Missouri. He faced up to 22 years in prison.

The owner of Hawkeye Waste Systems Inc., who was operating the business without worker’s compensation insurance when an employer was crushed by a skid loader in 2024, was convicted Friday and faces up to five years in prison.

An Iowa City man faces 10 years in prison for soliciting a child to have sex with him last summer. He approached a 10-year-old girl, suggesting sexually explicit acts and the child ran away crying to find her mother.

It’s among the proposals from the Iowa Attorney General’s Office ahead of the Iowa legislative session that starts later this month.

A Cedar Rapids man who was convicted as a teenager in a fatal 2020 shooting was sentenced this week to more than three years in federal prison after authorities found him carrying a stolen handgun while riding in a rideshare car.

Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks said this year, in preparing for the next legislative session, his office has set priorities for changes they’d like to see. He hopes to work with legislators to address the state’s groping laws, invasion of privacy crimes, and rules about examination of public records.

He’s accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — an Iowa native and University of Iowa graduate — on a New York City street one year ago.

The city’s housing and nuisance manager pleaded last week to a lesser charge for forging a receipt for pet medications to an insurance company. He received deferred judgment Tuesday.

All three brothers charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2024 death of another brother, who was tied to a mattress for days and died of “starvation and dehydration,” will be tried together in February 2026.

ID show “911 Did The Killer Call?” focuses Tuesday on the Eastern Iowa murder of a Marengo man who was fatally assaulted by his girlfriend, her son and his friend in July 2009.

Man still has other pending cases for domestic assault and violating sex offender registration requirements.

A 3-week-old baby and 6-year-old child were found “crying and sweating profusely” in a locked car on Monday at the Walmart on the southwest side of Cedar Rapids. The temperature inside the car was 100 degrees. The driver and mother of the 3 week old was charged with child endangerment.

Cedar Rapids woman received 4 year probation for abandoning stepchildren, an 8-year-old and 6-year-old, on Tower Terrace Road, near I-380, in June 2024. She also was sentenced for falsely reporting their father shot her in the stomach about two months later.