Articles Tagged: Iowa City Police Department

One person was injured Sunday in a crash between a car and a bicycle in Iowa City, according to a news release from the Iowa City Police Department.

An Iowa City police officer was legally justified earlier this summer in shooting and injuring an armed man who was threatening suicide but refused more than a dozen orders to drop his gun, Johnson County Attorney Rachel Zimmerman Smith determined.

A former Iowa City police officer who lost a lawsuit against the city in April, claiming he was coerced into resigning or be fired, is now suing the city in federal court, claiming racial discrimination.

An Iowa City man was charged last week with multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, after police say he filmed himself engaging in sex acts with multiple teenagers.

Police were called to the 100 block of S. Dubuque Street — just south of the Pedestrian Mall — at 12:56 a.m. Saturday for a report of shots fired.

Police in Eastern Iowa are seeing an increase this year in calls for service related to toy guns, especially gel blasters — fake guns that shoot small gel balls.

Officer Isaiah McNamee, standing on the rooftop ledge of the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Iowa City, held onto the man to keep him from falling. The man had climbed over the glass barrier and considered jumping. After speaking with McNamee, the man changed his mind and wanted to get to safety, but it wasn’t easy 12 stories in the air.

An Iowa City woman was arrested last week after her boy was found walking down the sidewalk carrying a loaded gun, according to a criminal complaint.

The criminal trial of a former University of Iowa student and fraternity brother arrested in connection with an alleged 2020 sexual assault, which was supposed to start this week, has been postponed pending a related civil trial.

An Iowa City man was arrested last week on charges that, while armed with a gun, he broke into a house and threatened to shoot someone inside.

Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that a former Iowa City police officer, who resigned in lieu of termination for misconduct, can appeal a Civil Service Commission ruling to Johnson County District Court. The commission had denied the officer’s petition to withdraw his resignation.

An Iowa City man was arrested early Thursday morning after police say he stabbed a person multiple times Wednesday night.

An Iowa City man has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges that he brought a gun onto school grounds and threatened staff members at Grant Wood Elementary School in November, according to the Johnson County Attorney’s Office.

The Iowa City Police Department is investigating threats made over the phone Thursday to a Mercy Hospital Clinic in Iowa City, which caused Mercy Hospitals and Regina Schools to lock down.

An Iowa City man, who had a cardiac arrest during the City High Homecoming Parade in September, said he was lucky to have an officer with a paramedic background to save him. He will “never forget him.”