Articles Tagged: Theft

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No charges will be filed against four Cedar Rapids police officers after an officer-involved shooting in August, according to a report from the Linn County Attorney’s Office which ruled the shooting justified.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Thursday on charges that he stole more than $10,000 from his grandmother, for whom he was a caretaker and had financial power of attorney.

A former mayor and a former clerk of Delhi, Iowa have both been charged with theft after a Delaware County Sheriff’s Office investigation, prompted by a report released last year by the Iowa State Auditor’s Office.

A former UI employee, who pocketed nearly $1 million by diverting production and design jobs for the university’s machine shop to his own business, pleaded to two charges and faces up to 10 years in prison. He will also pay over $170,000 to UI in restitution.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on charges that he broke into the site of a future senior living community in Cedar Rapids and stole a golf simulator worth more than $10,000, and about $7,000 worth of tools.

West Liberty woman accused of stealing medicine from nursing home resident at Cedar County’s Crestview Specialty Care

The former Elgin city clerk, originally charged with theft in the alleged misuse of $131,213 in taxpayer money, has been fined $430 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor offense.

An Iowa City man has been charged with theft after authorities say he stole more than $10,000 worth of timber by directing loggers to harvest 132 trees that didn’t belong to him.

A Fairfax man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he drove a stolen truck to and from a vehicle recycling center, and sold more than 20 vehicles to a recycling center without being properly licensed.

Two people were arrested Friday on charges they broke into a garage in Cedar Rapids and stole an all-terrain vehicle and multiple power tools, totaling more than $10,000 worth of property.

A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested Tuesday on charges that she stole almost $25,000 from her father, a dependent adult for whom she was caretaker.

Two Cedar Rapids men — one of whom was arrested last year on charges he stole copper and wiring from an industrial site — are facing charges after the theft of copper wire from Mercy Medical Center.

A stolen car was discovered Thursday morning in the Iowa River by the Curtis Bridge Boat Ramp, near North Liberty, according to a press release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.

A former western Iowa nurse was sentenced to over 3 years in federal prison for bank fraud, stealing drugs from nursing home patients and illegally possessing firearms.