Articles Tagged: Iowa State Patrol

A bill passed during this year’s legislative session made the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement division part of the state patrol.

Iowa law has several code sections outlining charges for littering, but the Linn County Attorney’s Office hasn’t charged anyone in the last year. The Iowa State Patrol has filed only 64 citations statewide.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Tuesday that she plans to send about 100 Iowa National Guard soldiers and 30 law enforcement officers to Texas to assist with border security between the United States and Mexico.

Crash happened on Iowa City’s east side.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 513 into law Tuesday, moving motor vehicle enforcement duties under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety.

Speeding, which surged during pandemic, could be partly to blame for spike

WELLSBURG (AP) — Four people were killed Friday morning and others were injured when a van they were in went out of control on a slick highway in northern Iowa.

The woman struck a slow-moving Iowa Department of Transportation snowplow truck that was on the left shoulder conducting a maintenance project.

The Iowa State Patrol said the crashes happened about 5:40 a.m. Sunday on westbound I-80, which the patrol said was “100 percent ice” at the time.

Tyler Rosenthal, 21, was driving a Honda CR-V west in the eastbound lanes of Highway 30, according to the crash report.

The driver of an SUV was killed in a head-on crash with a semi-trailer truck in Benton County Sunday evening

The trucker was completing a U-turn at 280th Street, blocking the southbound lane of Highway 1, according to the crash report.

One person is dead after a crash between a semi-truck and a tractor in Poweshiek County Monday evening.

A former state trooper charged with using unreasonable force against a Davenport motorcyclist in 2017 will be retried Oct. 11 in federal court. His trial last week was declared a mistrial when jurors couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.

A former state trooper testified Wednesday that his use of force — drawing a gun and using a open palm strike — on a Davenport man in 2017 was reasonable because he had safety concerns after a high speed chase. A video of the stop showed to the jury showed the man was compliant after stopping, but the ex-trooper had a different perception of the incident.