Category: Crime

QUAD CITIES – Cops were called to a Quad Cities gas station to deal with a credit card reader infected with a skimmer device, designed to steal the account holder’s bank information.

WHITING, IOWA – An Iowa woman is facing a charge of murder after a man was stabbed to death, but she says it was self defense.

ROCK VALLEY, IOWA – An Iowa drug dealer caught with coke, meth, and weed, was recently convicted and police say after his possibly 10 years in prison, ICE troopers will seal his fate.

Cops raced to this rural Northern Iowa location on a report of men crawling in a yard and discovered a suspect with a dangerous drug in his possession.

DALLAS COUNTY, IOWA – A long investigation involving the FBI uncovered the alleged sexual abuse of a female teen victim at the hands of a father and son, police say.

SIDNEY, IOWA – The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office is actively investigating a burglary that occurred at Sidney High School during the early morning hours of Saturday, March 15, 2025.

PERRY, IOWA – An elderly Iowa man allegedly murdered the person he lived with and then called police to turn himself in.

SIOUX CITY – An Iowa man who sexually exploited multiple children and possessed millions of files of child pornography was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison.

CEDAR RAPIDS – A Mason City woman who illegally possessed a sawed-off shotgun and shared multiple guns with her husband, a convicted felon who was prohibited from possessing firearms, was sentenced March 14, 2025, to 42 months’ imprisonment.

KOSSUTH COUNTY – Police found a Northern Iowa man slumped over a steering wheel in this tiny Kossuth county town, and now he is behind bars facing felony charges.

SIOUX CITY – A Mason City drug dealer who sold over three pounds of meth while toting a gun will face a stretch in federal prison.

BURLINGTON, IOWA – An Iowa woman speeding through town, allegedly intoxicated with no insurance, lost control of her vehicle that was loaded with kids and crashed, police say, sending three of them to a hospital with serious injuries.

WATERLOO – A pair of convicted felons from Waterloo that were allegedly involved in a bar shooting incident that left three people hurt say they are not guilty and face impending trial.

BOONE, IOWA – An Iowa man received decades in prison for felony crimes including kidnapping – but could be out much sooner.

THURMAN, IOWA – An Iowa woman is facing a felony drunk driving charge after she allegedly crashed her Ford Escape into a parked car then deposited herself into a ditch.

CEDAR RAPIDS – A Waterloo man is guilty a second time of possessing child pornography and will spend at least a decade behind bars.

SIOUX CITY – A Guatemalan illegal alien caught drunk driving in Iowa was sentenced to one year in federal prison.

CEDAR RAPIDS – A Northern Iowa man who illegally possessed multiple firearms, including a sawed off-shotgun, was sentenced this week to more than seven years in federal prison.

FREMONT COUNTY, IOWA – An elderly Iowa man admitted he victimized children in heinous ways for decades, and an Iowa judge placed him on probation, suspended his fines, and put him in a residential correctional facility.

AMES – This pair of suspects who allegedly murdered a young man in Ames, Iowa, are now securely behind bars, awaiting the heavy hand of justice to deliver the blows they may deserve.

SIOUX CITY – A Fort Dodge criminal who habitually refused to stop for police and was caught with a loaded 9mm pistol will spend long stretch in a federal prison.

KOSSUTH COUNTY – Authorities in Kossuth county say that a pair of Florida men hatched a “grandparent scam” first by softening up their prey over the phone and then visiting the victim in person to retrieve $10,000 in bond money to free a jailed kid – but in a twist of fate, both suspects will soon face consequences.

CEDAR RAPIDS – A Clear Lake man who produced and distributed child pornography pled guilty today in federal court. David Bradley Garrison, age 43, was convicted of two federal crimes and faces a minimum of 15 years in prison.

MASON CITY – A Mason City woman evidently did not learn any lesson from two prior drunk driving convictions as she allegedly drove to a local fast food joint and collided with another vehicle, prompting cops to wait out her drive-thru visit and cuff the suspect.

CLERMONT, IOWA – This recently-paroled felon was perched at a rural Northern Iowa watering hole when a disturbance erupted, leading to a police response and new felony charges against the suspect.

CONRAD, IOWA – A Northern Iowa woman has entered a guilty plea to a slew of felonies after she was caught allegedly stealing tens-of-thousands of dollars from her employers.

MASON CITY – A convicted drunk driver and paroled burglar was tooling around Mason City’s North End this weekend, until local police stopped him, battled him, and placed him back in jail so we can all be safer.

ARLINGTON, IOWA – Emergency calls to police led authorities to a rural Northern Iowa location where they coaxed a suspect out of a house to answer for children being hurt in more than one location.

SANTA BARBARA, HONDURAS – A drunk driving, drag racing illegal alien that crashed into a car in Omaha causing the tragic death of Iowa woman Sarah Root was allowed by a judge to flee on bail years ago, but now he has been caught in Río Frío, and faces a harrowing journey North to justice.

GARNER, IOWA – A Mason City man has been sent to prison after a guilty verdict on charges of child sex abuse in Hancock county, and his fiancé is battling to prove his innocence, saying the case is the result of a nasty divorce and “no actual evidence was presented”.

INDEPENDENCE, IOWA – Law enforcement in this Northern Iowa county announced numerous recent arrests for week of February 23 to March 1, 2025.

BURLINGTON, IOWA – An Iowa woman is behind bars today after a man was stabbed to death Saturday evening.

INDEPENDENCE, IOWA – A traffic stop led to the arrest of a Northern Iowa man for drunk driving, child endangerment, open container, and other offenses.

An illegal alien is facing a serious charge after he allegedly raped a child, and she gave birth due to the crime. The local sheriff stated, “We have determined the offender is here illegally and are working with Homeland Security to obtain a detainer due to his immigration status.”

SWEA CITY, IOWA – Police investigated a domestic incident in this remote Northern Iowa town, leading to the arrest of a suspect on felony charges.

PERRY, IOWA – A sixth grade male student in this Iowa community recently traumatized by a horrific school shooting made an alleged joke about committing further violence at a school there, and now he is facing the consequences.

SANBORN, IOWA – This Chicago convicted bank robber got out of prison on supervised release, moved to Northern Iowa, and then almost immediately robbed a bank here, and now he will be going back to the slammer.