Articles Tagged: Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation

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Dakota Van Patten repeatedly told police he had no knowledge and wasn’t involved in Melody Hoffman’s assault and strangulation in February 2024. He wouldn’t be able to “live with himself” if he killed someone, he told investigators.

The fatal shooting of a Linn County man by law enforcement officers during a traffic stop near Cascade in Dubuque County last month was justified, according to a report issued Friday by the Iowa Attorney General’s Office.

Five weeks have passed since Iowa and Louisa County authorities took 88 children into protective custody at a faith-based substance abuse recovery camp in Columbus Junction.

According to Iowa data, fentanyl and meth seizures are down significantly in the first 6 months of this year compared to averages over the previous 4 years.

Authorities say the 36-year-old displayed a handgun; a Dubuque County sheriff's sergeant was injured and released from hospital

The charges are the first after Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate in March claimed 277 Iowans without U.S. citizenship illegally voted or registered to vote in recent elections.

The Iowa Public Information Board declined to rule last week whether the criminal investigative report into the 2023 downtown Davenport building collapse is a public record.

An Iowa lawmaker says state investigators monitored mobile devices at the Iowa Capitol as they tested geofencing software before it was used to pinpoint online sports wagering by student-athletes on Iowa campuses.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety says under current law there is no legal mechanism by which to charge individuals for sharing their sports betting accounts with others or making bets on another’s behalf.

McKinley Louisma’s phone also shows messages exchanged with victim

The Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation has released the identities of three men who died in a crash in Delaware County last month, one of whom had sustained a gunshot wound before the crash, according to a news release.

State investigators are probing complaints against a secretive group that recruited fervent Donald Trump supporters to run as spoiler candidates in key swing districts against Republicans, according to a woman they recruited to run in Iowa's 1st District.

Authorities have not announced any arrest in the killings of the Omaha men.

David Schultz of Wall Lake had been working for nearly 30 straight hours, with little or no rest, the night he parked his semi-trailer truck along a rural road -- and went missing for five months until his body was found.