The investigation into an Iowa City daycare worker accused of sexually assaulting a toddler at an Iowa City day care began after the man acted “uncomfortable” during a polygraph examination for a state peace officer job, court records state. Tristan A. Loughran, 21, faces a charge of second-degree sexual abuse, a class B felony punishable [...]
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Majority Democrats in the Iowa Senate approved a $560 million budget that would fund more prison guards and state troopers and open new prison and residential corrections facilities. Senate File 447, which passed on a 26-23 party-line vote, would boost spending by $36.1 million in justice systems areas of corrections, public safety, public defense, human [...]
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When UI graduate student Taleb Salameh applied for a permit to acquire a weapon in February 2010, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office had little discretion in whether or not to approve it. University of Iowa officials at the time asked Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek to hold off on issuing the requested permit to Salameh – who [...]
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A district judge has decided a state regulatory board exceeded its authority when it required electrical inspections at farm facilities. Carroll County District Judge William Ostlund said the state’s Electrical Examining Board reached an “illogical” conclusion and went beyond the legislative intent of a vaguely written statute by including farm structures within the definition of [...]
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DES MOINES — Each of the more than 5,600 registered sex offenders in Iowa could soon have their mug shots digitized and saved to a database that law enforcement officials could then match to everything from security camera images to Facebook photos with a few mouse clicks. The Iowa Department of Public Safety is [...]
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The new commissioner of the state Department of Public Safety Thursday announced personnel changes that included a change of leadership for the Iowa State Patrol. Brian London, Gov. Terry Branstad’s recent pick as DPS leader, said he was reassigning Col. Patrick Hoye to become head of the Iowa Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau and elevating Dave [...]
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It’s harvest time for traditional farm operations and for outdoor marijuana growers in Iowa. State Department of Public Safety officials on Wednesday asked farmers, hunters and rural residents to be on the lookout for illegal pot operations and to report them to law enforcement authorities, rather than attempting to take action on their own. In [...]
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It’s uncommon for officers under the Iowa Department of Safety umbrella — including Iowa State Patrol troopers and Division of Narcotics Enforcement agents — to fire a weapon while on duty. When considering just the state’s narcotics officers — like the two undercover agents involved in last week’s fatal shooting east of Iowa City — [...]
continue »Examiners have determined that human bones found in Henry County last month are female remains. According to the Iowa Department of Public Safety, human bones found along Old Hwy 34 belong to a female between 24 and 32 years of age, standing between 5’3″ and 5’7″. The time of death is estimated to be during [...]
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IOWA CITY – A 21-year-old University of Iowa student was arrested Friday for alleging a report of her own kidnapping. Authorities said they used police and Iowa Dept. of Public Safety resources to investigate the alleged kidnapping of Kelsey L. Hoffman, of Fort Dodge, who reported on Sept. 23 she was snatched from behind her [...]
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