If a current law had existed in 1992, law enforcement may have been able to track the activities of a Dayton kidnapping suspect who had been previously convicted of kidnapping a woman and two 3-year old children. Offenders convicted of misdemeanors and felonies as of 2005 can be sentenced to a special parole which can [...]

Investigators and K9s found backpacks and a purse Tuesday in connection with the abduction of Kathlynn Shepard in Dayton, according to an Iowa Department of Safety news release. Read also: Suspect in Dayton abduction could have been monitored if current law existed in 1992 Investigators also obtained an image of Shepard from the day of [...]

The invasion of privacy trial for an Iowa City landlord accused of spying on several female tenants in his buildings through peepholes in bathrooms has been reset to July. Elwyn G. Miller, 63, of Iowa City, was supposed to be tried on 11 charges of invasion of privacy involving nudity this week. But court records [...]

Law enforcement agencies are probing whether a central Iowa kidnapping may be linked to the murder of two girls abducted last July from Evansdale. About 200 officers and volunteers searched rural areas in Webster, Boone and Hamilton counties Tuesday for a 15-year-old Dayton girl investigators believe was kidnapped Monday afternoon. Kathlynn Shepard was still missing [...]

Via KCCI.com: Authorities are asking for the public’s help to find a girl abducted Monday in northern Iowa. Kathlynn Shepard, 15, has been missing since 4 p.m. Monday. Dayton Police Chief Nicholas Dunbar said two girls were abducted from a bus stop Monday afternoon.  Authorities said the girls were taken to a rural agricultural facility [...]

Five juveniles were arrested following a fight at City High School in Iowa City early Monday morning. According to a press release from the Iowa City police department, police sent an officer to the high school for extra patrol as a precaution following an incident over the weekend that police anticipated might spill over into [...]

Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Reinert left Cedar Rapids this week to take over the command of a coalition which helps reinforce the Afghan criminal justice system and promote the legitimacy of its government. “Having a court system work – ties people to the government,” said Reinert, who is a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army [...]

A 50-year-old Iowa City man is in the Johnson County Jail this morning on felony charges after police found more than 10 pounds of marijuana in his house, just east of downtown. Members of the Johnson County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant for Gerald Lawrence Gerard at 1102 East Davenport St. at 2 [...]

Iowa City is quickly becoming a top supplier of synthetic drugs to juveniles from across Eastern Iowa, according to police. “We’re having carloads of juveniles showing up from Burlington or Fort Madison at two, three in the morning, coming here to buy (synthetic drugs),” said Iowa City polic Sgt. Paul Batcheller. Legal synthetic substances are [...]

House-Senate conference committee members Wednesday finalized a $547.3 million appropriation to fund state prisons, public safety and other justice system functions for the 2014 fiscal year that begins July 1. The overall funding level in Senate File 447 was an increase from the House’s $534.5 million proposal and Gov. Terry Branstad’s $535.2 million plan for [...]