Articles Tagged: firearms

A Cedar Rapids man who illegally purchased firearms while being a drug user was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison

A Coralville woman, convicted last year for helping one of the men who robbed and killed Kejuan Winters in 2020, was sentenced this week to federal prison for illegally possessing ammo as a felon.

Not a formal investigation, but the attorney general will look at why the price of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer has increased 315 percent since January 2021, and other types of fertilizer have increased between 171 percent and 290 percent, according to the federal agriculture department.

The Iowa City Police are investigating an incident involving two young children in which a firearm was discharged Nov. 7.

He was converting “fuel filters” into illegal gun silencers.

Marion man will spend 1 year in federal prison for stealing pistol last year when he worked at Fleet Farm. The incident was captured on store video.

Gun deaths are surging in Iowa as a law is set to go into effect Thursday that will allow people to more easily buy handguns and carry them in public without training or a permit.

Mason Chance Edwards, 23, confronted the victim on June 9 at a residence in the Western Hills Mobile Estates in Coralville over a previous incident, police said.

Federal judge sentences Nyle Brocks, 28, previously convicted 16 times, to more than nine years for illegally possessing firearm as a domestic abuser.

Ronald Robi, the tipster in a 2016 murder-for-hire case, faces three counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.

A Cedar Rapids man fled from police Saturday and was found to be carrying a stolen gun.

He faces up to 10 years in prison