At least one person hadn’t heard about the Cedar Rapids police department’s famous red Jeep. She knows about it now, though. The vehicle, which is equipped with a camera system that automatically snaps photos of speeders as they pass by, was damaged in a minor accident Tuesday. Police said a 49-year-old Marion woman backed into it with [...]
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UPDATE: A Hawk Alert issued by the University of Iowa has been canceled, and the subject of this morning’s alert has been located in Washington County, police said. Police were unable to confirm reports of a reported armed person in City Park this morning. The text of the alert, as sent to UI students around [...]
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UPDATE: A former University of Iowa wide receiver was arrested early Wednesday morning on suspicion of drunken driving after he told police that they “wouldn’t last a (expletive) minute in Kinnick Stadium.” Paul Allen Chaney, 24, of Iowa City, was stopped for running a red light at 1:39 a.m. near the intersection of Clinton and [...]
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An Iowa prisoner who escaped from a Coralville residential correctional facility for several months last summer has been captured after another escape. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that 25-year-old Sylvester Campbell was taken into custody on Monday and charged with felony escape. He’d been staying at Hope House, which is a residential confinement facility operated [...]
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The parents of a 14-year-old Clear Creek Amana High School student killed in a car accident near Tiffin in October are suing the 18-year-old driver of the car she was in and the owner of that vehicle. According to the lawsuit filed Friday in Johnson County District Court, Zachary Swenka is at fault for the [...]
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Police said three women accused an Iowa City man of trying to offer them money in exchange for sex acts Sunday. LeRoy D. Clark, 31, of 428 Southgate Ave., has been charged with prostitution, according to a criminal complaint filed in Linn County District Court. Clark is accused of soliciting the women in the 1500 [...]
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Police were waiting when a Cedar Rapids teenager allegedly went to a post office to pick up a package of marijuana. Kyle J. Cole, 19, of 202 66th Ave. SW, has been charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and a drug tax stamp violation. He is accused of having about [...]
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A judge will now decide the fate of a Waterloo man accused of killing his roommate and then setting their house on fire. Attorneys submitted Glen Jackson’s case for a decision on Tuesday morning as his bench trial began. The 51-year-old Waterloo man waived his right to a jury trial. The Black Hawk County Attorney said the judge would [...]
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A police chase that started when an officer noticed a car going about 60 mph through downtown Lisbon ended with a crash Friday night, authorities said. Spencer D. Mullett, 19, of 417 Second Ave. NW in Mount Vernon, has been charged with attempting to elude, operating while intoxicated and drug possession. No one was hurt [...]
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Vandals struck a northwest Cedar Rapids neighborhood Monday — for the third day in a row. And this time, their derogatory graffiti is a little harder to get rid of for one family. The vandals are targeting homes in the Stoney Point neighborhood. Police have responded to at least four calls there in the past [...]
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