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.
The trial of a former Marion man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child between 2018 and 2021 has been bumped for the 11th time. This case is one of numerous Linn County sexual abuse cases that have been lingering in the system for more than a year.
A Coralville women received a deferred prosecution for encouraging and assisting an Olin woman in a plan to kill herself. The Coralville woman won’t be prosecuted or 12 months if she gets a mental health evaluation and treatment. If she complies with the conditions, the prosecution will dismiss the charge.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District had nearly twice as many trials in 2024 and is ranked second for cases filed among the other 25 federal districts of its size. The district includes Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Fort Dodge and Sioux City.
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