A Greene County police dispatcher was justifiably fired last year for the “brazen conversion of county taxpayer resources to personal gain,” an Iowa judge has ruled.
A former East Sac County Community School District teacher has pleaded guilty to the charges of third degree sexual abuse and sexual exploitation by a school employee.
An Iowa police officer who resigned because of a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl has lost his bid to regain his certification as a law enforcement officer.
A former police officer who faces numerous felony charges in connection with allegations of harassing and stalking a Des Moines woman is now accused by prosecutors of threatening to harm her to prevent her from testifying against him.
A former Scranton resident, following a three-year investigation, has been sentenced to prison as a result of physically harming his toddler in addition to inciting sexual abuse of a minor.
A high-speed chase in Carroll Friday afternoon led to the arrest of a Lytton man for multiple charges, including domestic abuse and assault.
A fourth and final suspect in the theft of an ATM from Wild Rose Casino in January has been apprehended following a months long search.
Newly filed court documents reveal new information in the investigation into the alleged submission of falsified documents by Lake City’s City Administrator and two former Lake City police officers.
Not guilty pleas have been filed by Lake City administrator Eric Wood and former Lake City police officer Anthony Snyder following their arrests for allegedly submitting falsified documents to the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy.
Manning man Jason Irlmeier, 45, has been sentenced to serve up to two years in prison after pleading guilty to indecent contact with a child.
A former police officer who was hired by two Iowa cities despite a woman’s claims that he harassed and threatened to kill her now faces a litany of criminal charges for similar accusations involving a different woman, according to court records.
High-speed chase and search lands Jefferson man with charges of attempted murder, vehicular burglary
A whirlwind of criminal activity, punctuated by a high-speed chase and a city-wide search, has landed a Jefferson man an attempted murder charge.
A Jefferson man who served prison time for sexual abuse and kidnapping while living in Decorah several years ago has apparently left town for Canada with his spouse after being charged with threatening to kill his wife and voicing verbal threats to have sexual relations with his stepdaughter.
A magistrate has dismissed four counts of alleged illegal possession of deer heads by Kenny Snyder, a longtime Carroll County Conservation Board member who has been embroiled in a years-long case.
A man from Ida Grove was sentenced to prison for five years due to committing theft in the second degree.
A Jefferson man charged with numerous crimes, including sexual abuse and illegal possession of a firearm, has requested a change of venue for his upcoming trial.
Convicted bank robber Zachary Wailes was recently sentenced to eight years of prison time following a February theft in Scranton.
A Carroll woman who was arrested for accusations of assaulting a police officer has pleaded not guilty for her charges.
A Lake City man will remain in prison for life for the homicide of Carl DeVore and Tammie DeVore.
A 78-year-old Carroll man is accused of sexually abusing three children younger than 12 over the course of about nine years, according to court records.
A man who raises cows and hogs about two miles southwest of Willey was fined $3,000 by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for failing to submit a plan for how to dispose of the manure the animals make.
A convicted sex offender who allegedly tried to sexually assault a 10-year-old girl last year was arrested last week in Carroll, where he recently moved, for failing to register his new address with the sheriff’s office, according to court records.
The former owner of Adams Motor Company who was accused of trespassing in a house near Breda late last year while he delivered packages for United Parcel Service is not guilty of the charge, a judge ruled Thursday.
A 52-year-old Glidden man was sentenced to up to 18 months in federal prison for possessing two guns last year despite being barred from owning firearms because of several domestic abuse convictions.
Gov. Kim Reynolds has appointed District Court Judge Gina Badding of Carroll to the Iowa Court of Appeals.
A 56-year-old Creston man faces several felony charges for repeatedly possessing methamphetamine in Carroll, most recently for having several bags of the drug when he was jailed in March.
The Dow City woman accused of killing her boyfriend in February will claim she was defending herself when she shot him in the back with a .40-caliber handgun, according to court records.
A Carroll man was arrested for public intoxication when police found him unresponsive early Friday morning.
A 22-year-old Carroll man is charged with animal neglect after lying to police about owning an emaciated dog.
A 43-year-old Carroll man was arrested and charged Tuesday for driving while under the influence and possessing methamphetamine in April.
A 44-year-old Paton man faces two felony charges after ramming his vehicle into his son’s car, according to court documents.
A former Carroll County employee failed in her most-recent attempt to get unemployment insurance benefits after she was forced to resign for improperly disbursing emergency assistance money to a woman who didn’t need it.
An 18-year-old Fort Dodge man sped away from a traffic stop near Carroll on Sunday and led a chase at speeds faster than 100 mph to Fort Dodge, where he crashed and shot himself, according to the state Division of Criminal Investigation.
The city of Carroll has agreed to pay $50,000 to a Menlo company to settle a lawsuit that stemmed from a water pipe project from which the city withheld partial payment after a significant delay in the project’s completion.
A 46-year-old former Carroll man was sentenced to up to 60 years in prison this week for killing someone when he was caught stealing items from a Sioux City house to get money to buy methamphetamine.
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The former Denison mayor and a city councilman have been ordered to pay a total of $376,500 to the town’s city manager and city clerk for falsely accusing them of misconduct, a jury decided last week.
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An unusual deal that likely will result in the early prison release of a man convicted of murdering his longtime friend in Sac City was proposed by one of his prosecutors, who believes the man should not spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2009 killing.
A man who declined to take a plea deal for choking his longtime friend in Sac City to death with a baseball bat in 2009 and instead was found guilty of murder by a jury and sentenced to up to 50 years in prison now is set to get the original deal and avoid dying in prison, according to court…
The former owner of Adams Motor Company whose dealerships fell into financial ruin and who pleaded guilty last year to fraudulent sales practices is suing the Iowa Department of Transportation to stop it from interfering with his potential employment at other dealerships, according to court …
A judge sentenced a 30-year-old Carroll man to up to 10 years in prison today for breaking into his own house last year, according to court records. He had been barred from going inside the house by a protective order.
A woman who was fired last year from her job at Family Resource Center is accused of stealing information about the center’s clients in an attempt to poach them for a competing organization operated by her mother, according to a lawsuit.
A 51-year-old Glidden man who is barred from owning firearms because of several domestic assault convictions faces up to 10 years in federal prison for having a shotgun and rifle last year, according to court records.
The Carroll City Council has agreed to pay an insurance company $175,000 to settle a lawsuit that stemmed from downtown flooding in 2018 that was caused by a city water main break.
A 26-year-old Carroll man who caused a serious crash in January near Arcadia is accused of having more than an ounce of methamphetamine with him in the vehicle, according to court records.
At least two people identified the man accused of robbing a Scranton bank last week based on surveillance video images, and a woman claimed she unknowingly aided the robbery at the man's request, according to court records.
Friends of a shooting victim in Dow City inadvertently delivered the man into the custody of his shooter, who claimed she would take him to a hospital but left him to die, according to court records.
Jury trials are underway again across the state after months of delays because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Landus Cooperative is wrongly seeking to stop two of its former “key” employees from poaching its customers, according to lawyers who are defending the employees and their new employer, NEW Cooperative, against a Landus lawsuit.
A disgruntled Landus Cooperative employee who was fired in December schemed with a co-worker to steal information and customers for their new employer, NEW Cooperative, according to a lawsuit Landus filed in federal court last week.
A 41-year-old Carroll man is set to return to federal prison for more than a decade for dealing methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
A 50-year-old Carroll man who shot himself in the leg in September is charged with a felony for possessing a firearm as an already convicted felon, according to court records.
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