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A convicted felon who was found with a firearm magazine on one day and a firearm for that magazine nine days later was sentenced on August 12, 2021, to more than five…

A man who maintained a long term online grooming relationship with a minor teenager via social media, which ended with him secretly driving her to Iowa and hiding her in a park…

A man who unlawfully possessed a loaded handgun while awaiting sentencing on another federal firearms offense was sentenced today to 92 months in federal prison.  The court ordered the sentence to be…

A former employee of a federally licensed firearms dealer who stole a handgun from his employer while at work was sentenced today to a year in federal prison. Raykwon Stevenson, age 25,…

A man who broke into a house and stole an AR‑15-style rifle and marijuana was sentenced today to five years in federal prison. John Christopher Jacobson, age 23, from Lowden, Iowa, received…

A man who distributed a deadly cocktail of opioids was sentenced today to more than 15 years in federal prison. Julius Gene Irvin, age 30, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term…

A man with multiple prior convictions involving violence was sentenced today to over seven years in federal prison.  Charles Ware, age 47, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a guilty…

A Cresco man who cyberstalked a Minnesota woman for nearly two years was sentenced on July 30, 2021, to ten years in federal prison. Michael Shawn McGuire, age 58, from Cresco, Iowa,…

A man who took photographs of a child performing a sex act was sentenced today to more than twenty-eight years in federal prison. Terrance Sullivan, age 63, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the…

A man with multiple prior convictions involving violence was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison.  Trenton Sliekers, age 28, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a guilty plea…

A Monticello woman, who enticed a minor to engage in sexual activity, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Miranda Breeden, age 46, pled guilty to one count of…

ARMSTRONG, IOWA – An Armstrong man who participated in a scheme to defraud the United States out of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) funds, and conspired to…

A Chicago felon who pretended to be a victim of the August 2020 derecho disaster in order to fraudulently obtain over $5,000 in FEMA disaster benefits was sentenced today to more than…

A woman who falsely claimed that she was purchasing a firearm for herself pled guilty on June 25, 2021, in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Jamie Marie Graham, age 23, from Waterloo,…

A woman who used a false identification document and someone else’s name and social security number was sentenced today to five years of probation. Xiomara Lopez-Martinez, age 26, a citizen of Guatemala…

A Waterloo woman who used a power of attorney to defraud a disabled elderly widow of nearly $500,000 was sentenced on June 25, 2021, to more than five years in federal prison. …

Law enforcement agencies across Iowa continue to make communities safer by vigorously investigating and prosecuting gun related crimes.  This effort has resulted in charges and arrests in forty-eight federal cases between November…

A man who distributed pounds of methamphetamine was sentenced June 4, 2021, to nearly two decades in federal prison. Henry Wilke Eilders, age 43, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after an October…

A felon who, after an argument, shot wildly on a populated street, was sentenced today to over eight years in federal prison. Derrick Damon Timmons, age 30, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the…