WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – A pistol found in a car in June has resulted in federal charges for a Waterloo man and a woman from Minnesota. 32-year-old Marchello Rembert is charged as a felon in possession of a firearm and with possession of crack cocaine with intent to deliver. Trisha Millard, of Rochester, is charged with being an unlawful drug user in possession of a firearm.
DES MOINES (IRN) – A Des Moines woman told police an armed man robbed her from the backseat of a car after she entered the car to conduct a drug deal. The Des Moines Register reports the 18-year-old met someone over Facebook who told her to wait at Caribou Coffee and get into a car where she’d pay for THC pills and a pipe. But after she sat down, another man popped up from the backseat, put a gun to her head and robbed her.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA (IRN) – A 30-year-old former Council Bluffs high school math teacher is scheduled to be sentenced in November after being convicted for having sex with students. KWWL-TV reports Jeffrey Daugherty pled guilty Tuesday to felony sexual abuse by a counselor, therapist or school employee and nine misdemeanors. Daugherty resigned from his teaching position in February.
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – An officer of Country Bancorporation has been charged with stealing more than $800,000 from banks controlled by the company. KCII-Radio reports Heidi Wagler, age 50, from Wayland has been charged with one count of embezzlement by a bank officer. If convicted, Wagler faces a possible maximum sentence of 30 years imprisonment.
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – A man has been booked into the Linn County Jail on two counts of First Degree Murder — but authorities aren’t saying who he’s accused of killing. KWWL-TV reports this comes nearly two weeks after he was arrested on Involuntary Manslaughter and other charges related to a Cedar Rapids death investigation. Travis Standlee is currently behind bars.
MILLS COUNTY, IA (IRN) – An Iowa man is accused of shooting and killing his neighbor’s dog in front of teenagers, according to KETV. Four teens were walking the dog on a gravel road in Mills County in southwestern Iowa when Andrew Thofer, 30, shot at the dog once with a rifle from his vehicle, then got out of the car and shot the dog several more times. The teenagers took cover and ran. Thofer faces several charges, including animal abuse and aggravated assault.
MONONA COUNTY, IA (IRN) – Police in the western Iowa town of Mapleton are investigating another suspicious death, according to KMEG-TV. Police say 58-year-old Daniel Hieber was found unresponsive. Hieber is the second person to die in Mapleton in the past month but police say the two cases are not connected at this time, and they are not calling Hieber’s death a murder.
DES MOINES (IRN) – A former police officer from Maryland rushed to the scene of an accident to pull a seriously injured driver out of a truck that caught on fire Tuesday. KCCI-TV reports the truck ran a stop sign in Des Moines and hit another vehicle before nearly plowing into a home. Once stopped, the truck caught on fire and Steve Jones and another man pulled the driver from the truck. The driver was rushed to the hospital where he is in serious condition.