The Iowa Department of Corrections issued a nationwide warrant for the arrest of Pieper Lewis this month after learning she had been removed from a treatment center in Atlanta and then failed to show up to probation meetings.
Articles Tagged: Human Trafficking
Althea Cole
Staff Columnists Sep. 17, 2023 5:00 am765d ago
Challenge those oversimplified platitudes and you’re a racist, a misogynist, a xenophobe, a climate denier, and a bigot.
Crime & Courts Jul. 10, 2023 10:18 am834d ago
Criminal penalties increase for several charges that involve Iowa’s most vulnerable — pregnant women and children.
Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau
Government & Politics May. 16, 2023 5:54 pm888d ago
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 513 into law Tuesday, moving motor vehicle enforcement duties under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety.
The Gazette
Business News Mar. 24, 2023 5:00 am942d ago
DES MOINES — The Iowa Businesses Against Trafficking initiative is one of three finalists for a national award. The program, …
News Mar. 3, 2023 5:00 am963d ago
Chains Interrupted, a non-profit that works to combat human trafficking in Iowa, has announced it is shifting its focus to work with children and youth.
Community Jan. 16, 2023 6:00 am1009d ago
A Cedar Rapids woman who has spent more than eight years volunteering her time to fight human trafficking was honored Thursday with an Outstanding Anti-Trafficking Service Award from the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking.
Crime & Courts Nov. 18, 2022 2:49 pm1067d ago
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An judge on Friday set a hearing for January to consider whether to order prison for an 18-year-old sex-trafficking victim in Iowa who killed her rapist and pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury.
Crime & Courts Sep. 14, 2022 3:06 am1133d ago
A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced Tuesday in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man’s family.
Crime & Courts Sep. 12, 2022 5:00 am1135d ago
Reports increasing as hotel employees, others, learn what to look for
State Government Jul. 28, 2022 2:40 pm1180d ago
Erik Helland, the governor’s appointee to the State Public Employment Relations Board, failed to earn Senate confirmation earlier this year
Crime & Courts Jul. 26, 2022 9:49 am1183d ago
Chains Interrupted, a Cedar Rapids-based non-profit dedicated to fighting human trafficking, will host an awareness event in which participants are invited to pour red sand into the cracks in the sidewalk, symbolizing the people who fall through the cracks of human trafficking.
State Government Jul. 22, 2022 2:33 pm1186d ago
Also, the state records a record number of new business registrations in the recent state budget year
Government & Politics Nov. 29, 2021 4:34 pm1421d ago
Training must be completed in order for them to receive public funds as payment
Crime & Courts Aug. 27, 2021 6:55 pm1515d ago
In Iowa, 12 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Iowa conducted 10 operations throughout the state, during which officers executed 10 search warrants, identified five businesses involved in sex trafficking, made 11 arrests and seized a large quantity of cash.