Articles Tagged: Iowa State Patrol

The Iowa Department of Public Safety is asking the Iowa Legislature for $385,000 to take the “final steps” in outfitting all Iowa State Patrol troopers with body cameras.

In Iowa, last year, there were 373 crashes directly related to distracted driving resulting in six fatalities and more than $4 million in property damage, Iowa State Patrol Maj. Mark Stine told lawmakers.

The trial for a man charged with killing an Iowa State Patrol trooper will be moved out of Grundy County but a new location for the trial has not been determined.

Authorities say an Iowa police officer struck and killed a child with a patrol vehicle while headed to an apartment fire.

A Williamsburg woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash Monday night in Iowa County, the Iowa State Patrol reported.

Wyoming, Iowa, woman died in head-on crash near Anamosa; Dyersville man injured

Attorneys for Michael Lang, 42, of Grundy Center, say he was injured and medicated, unable to understand his rights

SUV flipped three times after going into ditch in crash, investigators say

Several Iowa media organizations and the ACLU of Iowa are suing Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and her staff, charging they broke Iowa’s open records law by failing to provide records about the Iowa State Patrol’s border deployment, private fundraising at the governor’s residence, and Reynolds’ messages to meatpacking plant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, among other requests.

The crash that killed Iowa State Patrol Trooper Ted Benda last month happened when he swerved to avoid a deer while responding to a call at high speed, Iowa State Patrol reported Friday.

Robert James Smith will be formally charged next week in U.S. District Court with one count of deprivation of rights under color of law. He is accused of willfully depriving “Victim 1” on Sept. 25, 2017, of the right to be free from unreasonable seizures and unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer, the indictment states.

At about 6:10 p.m., a driver was traveling north on Highway 1, between Iowa City and Solon at Fox Lane NE, when a deer ran into the path of the car, according to the Iowa State Patrol.

Hundreds of Iowa State Patrol troopers gathered in Waukon for the funeral of Trooper Ted Benda, who died Oct. 20 after crashing his patrol car while going to assist with a call in Clayton County. The service at the Waukon High School was expected to be attended by family, friends, community members and law enforcement.

The funeral begins at 11 a.m. at Waukon High School and is being livestreamed.

Steven Kohli, 69, was checking the damage to a vehicle he was in that had just struck a deer on Interstate 35 in southwest Warren County.