Articles Tagged: Linn County Attorney’s Office

Iowa has no extreme risk protection order law, wherein law enforcement, family members or others can seek a court order to temporarily prevent someone deemed a threat from buying or possessing firearms.

County attorney’s office opened 164 truancy cases in past year, successfully resolving 56 of the cases.

Assistant Linn County Attorney Matt Kishinami is recognized for work on child abuse cases by the Iowa Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.

Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks gives the first-year review of the marijuana diversion program. Of 114 participants, 50 didn’t complete it, 36 are still working on it and 28 successfully completed the program and had their arrests expunged.

The three proposed bills by the Iowa County Attorneys Association will close “loopholes” in existing laws and provide more protection for adult and child sex abuse victims, Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks said.

A Cedar Rapids man failed to appear last week on a charge of threatening a Linn County prosecutor because he was upset that his friend was convicted for killing Chris Bagley in 2018.

According to the complaint, Green shot at Jackson in the 800 block of Sixth Street SW “with the intent to cause the death of another person.”

Nick Maybanks announces his run as the next elected Linn County attorney to lead the office. He was appointed by the Board of Xupervisors earlier this month to finish out Jerry Vander Sanden’s term, which ends in December. The top prosecutor is an elected position and will be on the November ballot.

An Urbana man charged with hitting and killing a Center Point woman and injuring her boyfriend in a bar parking lot in 2019 will plead later this month.

First Assistant Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks was appointed as county attorney Tuesday by the board of supervisors. He will fill the vacancy left by Jerry Vander Sanden who retired early at the end of last month. Maybanks will likely run for the elected position.

Stanley L. Donahue, accused of robbing the Casey’s in Coggon and shooting a Linn County deputy 10 times, won’t have his trial moved outside the county

County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden announced his retirement at the end of the calendar year earlier this week

Vander Sanden, 64, announced his upcoming departure Tuesday to the Linn County Board of Supervisors, saying it seemed like a “practical time to retire” after being the elected county attorney for over 11 years and serving more than 38 years in the office

A Cedar Rapids man testified Drew Blahnik, on trial for first-degree murder, killed Chris Bagley for their drug dealer’s revenge. Blahnik is on trial for first-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty and plans to claim self-defense or defense of another during the trial.

Drew Blahnik killed Chris Bagley in a “stabbing frenzy,” prosecutor says in her opening statement. Bagley had 17 stab wounds on his neck and torso.