Articles Tagged: Linn County Sheriff’s Office

A Linn County jury convicted Luke Truesdell of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder.

Lon Brown, father of Brent Brown, one of the four people bludgeoned with a metal pipe last year, testified that when Luke Truesdell entered his house after having been in the outbuilding on Brown’s property, where the bodies were found, he was “dazed and mumbling.”

Surveillance video showed the two couples bludgeoned with a metal pipe in June of 2024 were attacked separately. The video was played during day four of the trial for Luke Truesdell, who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder.

The brother of one of the four people who were bludgeoned with a metal pipe in June 2024 testified Thursday in the trial for a Marion man, charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Matt Brown said he found a horrific scene as he walked into an outbuilding, finding his brother, barely alive, and three others dead.

In the last six months, the Linn County Sheriff’s Office has collected 428 pounds of unwanted or unused medication through its 24/7 medication drop box.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a bomb threat that was reported to the Alburnett School District Friday through a voicemail, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.

The use of cameras by law enforcement to automatically scan license plates and record vehicle information in an online database was limited in Eastern Iowa just a few years ago. But in recent years, the cameras have become a hot button issue on city council agendas across Linn and Johnson counties.

One person died and two people were injured in a house fire in Fairfax early Sunday morning.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a person of interest in a disturbance that left one person with serious but not life-threatening injuries early Wednesday morning in Center Point.

A judge will allow part of the confession of a Marion man accused of bludgeoning 4 people with a metal bar in June of 2024. His statements made to law enforcement regarding motive and details won’t be allowed at trial because he wasn’t read Miranda rights at that time.

A man was arrested Monday on charges that he shot a 12-year-old boy in the head with bird shot after he saw movement in a row of bushes and thought the child was a groundhog.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has determined the deaths of two people in April at a mobile home park in Springville were both suicides.

The man facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with the 1983 death of Ronald Novak placed himself at the home where the death occurred, a criminal complaint released Saturday shows.

An Anamosa man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for causing a fatal crash in February 2023 in Springville. He was intoxicated and crashed into a vehicle driven by a Springville man, who was only about a mile from his home.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two adults found dead Wednesday at a mobile home park near Springville, but has not said yet how they died.