Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Department of Public Safety

A judge on Friday convicted an Iowa City man of robbing and trying to kill a woman on the University of Iowa campus in April of 2022. Ali Younes faces up to 60 years in prison.

A former Iowa physician is suing a police detective who cited her for harassment after she publicly posted comments that she was “coming after” a former University of Iowa Hospitals colleague, who she called a “blue-eyed Hitler look alike.”

A Johnson County judge has dismissed the case against a man accused of interfering with police who were investigating allegations of hazing at a University of Iowa fraternity a year ago on Nov. 15, 2024.

An aggravated assault last year was among 13 reported “hate crimes” on the UI campus in 2024 -- a spike from just one in 2023 and six in 2022, according to a new UI 2025 Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act and Fire Safety report being presented to the Board of Regents this week.

Jerome “Jerry” Lepperd -- who police were looking for after the Iowa-Oregon game Saturday, has been found and is safe.

Ali Younes, accused of robbing and assaulting a woman in 2022 on the University of Iowa campus, initially told police a man he couldn’t identify assaulted the woman. He only came upon the woman after she was unconscious, he said, and stole her diamond earrings.

In addition to $10 million Iowa paid two siblings of a teenage girl who died of starvation in the care of her adoptive parents in 2017, the state has agreed to pay a third sibling $4.2 million after being “severely physically abused, neglected, and tortured.”

The long-awaited trial for an Iowa City man accused of robbed and choking a woman on the University of Iowa campus in 2022 was expected to start April 1, but now has been reset again to July 8. The defendant, Ali Younes, fled to Jordan but returned to face trial.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department recently finished installing 70 stationary license plate reader cameras, which scan license plates and run them through national crime databases to search for missing person alerts, stolen vehicle reports, and arrest warrants.

A University of Iowa police detective said an Iowa City man created social media profile of him using personal information, including his spouse’s name, and used “hateful discriminating language” that he would never use.

A federal judge sentenced a Wisconsin man to 12 years for stealing a California man’s identity for 35 years. He also must pay a $10,000 fine and restitution to the victim.

An Iowa City man accused of posing in social media accounts as a University of Iowa police detective -- in retaliation for the detective testifying in campus protesters’ trials -- faces up to two years in jail.

Federal sentencing for a former UI IT systems lead, who stole a California man’s identity 35 years ago when they worked together at a hotdog cart in New Mexico, has been reset to Jan. 31. He faces up to 32 years in prison.

University of Iowa investigators have identified individuals involved in multiple reports of fondling on campus this week, describing them as juveniles “asking for hugs, grabbing people’s buttocks, and attempting to take items from victims.”

An Iowa City man who fled to Jordan in 2023 to avoid prosecution for attempted murder voluntarily surrendered to Chicago Police with help of UI Police and the U.S. Embassy in Jordan.