A Cedar Rapids man, whose three brothers were arrested last week on charges they unintentionally caused his death by tying him to a bed for multiple days, died from “complications of probably starvation and dehydration in a setting of physical restraint,” according to criminal complaints filed over the weekend.
Three brothers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. They’re accused of tying down their 18-year-old brother who died. They said he had a schizophrenic episode and was acting out, threatening to harm his family and himself.
A Cedar Rapids man was convicted for unintentionally causing the death of an Iowa City man who was fatally shot outside the H-Bar in 2022. The Iowa City hookah bar is prohibited from being open past 10 p.m., according to a recent court ruling.
A judge takes Iowa City teen, who is accused in drag racing fatality, off house arrest but continues GPS monitoring and adds a curfew and $30,000 bail. Off house arrest, the teen also won’t receive jail credit towards a possible prison sentence if convicted.
Eighteen-year-old Kesean Ford requested 24 hours of furlough to attend West High School’s prom on Saturday. Sixth Judicial District Judge Liz Dupuich denied the request, writing in the ruling that she is concerned about the safety of the public and the teen.
The Iowa Board of Parole on Tuesday granted work release to a man who fatally shot one man and seriously injured two others in August 2017 on Iowa City’s Ped Mall.
Court records say two teens were drag racing when they crashed with another car in May.
Two 17-year-olds have each been charged in Johnson County Court with homicide by vehicle and involuntary manslaughter after a crash in May that killed Jennifer Russell, 22, according to a Wednesday news release from the Johnson County Attorney’s Office.
David Joseph Taylor is accused of supplying a woman with a combination of drugs that led to her death in September.
A Cedar Rapids woman convicted of lesser charge for fatally stabbing boyfriend in 2020 will serve no additional prison time on a five year sentence. Judge discharged her sentence because she already served 891 days in jail pending trial.
A Montezuma man was arrested this week on charges that he supplied potent morphine to his fiancee in 2020, which resulted in her death.
Donations are pouring in to help a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim who was ordered by a court to pay $150,000 to the family of a man she stabbed to death after he raped her.
A Cedar Rapids man arrested Monday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter shot a man on April 25 intending to hit him in the leg, according to a criminal complaint filed in Linn County Court Tuesday.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Monday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in connection with an April fatal shooting that happened on April 25.
He faces a little more than eight years in a federal prison for a firearms charge. He was previously convicted on state charges in the unintentional shooting of 18-year-old Marisa Doolin
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