Trish Mehaffey

1 week ago | thegazette.com | Trish Mehaffey

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — A 49-year-old Grimes man faces 50 years in prison — a life sentence based on his age — for trying to kill three Cedar Rapids police officers during a standoff in February. Christopher Mark Kern pleaded last week to three charges of attempted murder of a police officer. He was sentenced Friday to the convictions.

1 week ago | thegazette.com | Trish Mehaffey

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. An Iowa City man who was charged with earlier this week with sexual abuse of a juvenile, was again charged Friday with sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl between August and November of 2024. Martin Edgardo Menjivar, 58, was charged with three counts of second-degree sexual abuse, Class B felonies.

1 week ago | thegazette.com | Trish Mehaffey

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. An Iowa City man is accused of contacting a 15-year-old girl over social media in an attempt to get her to meet him for sex and also sent her sexually explicit photos of himself. Hanier Ramirez Garcia, 29, was charged Friday with grooming, a felony, and two aggravated misdemeanors, attempt to entice a minor and telephone dissemination of obscene materials to a minor.

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Trish Mehaffey

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A Cedar Rapids man faces up to 40 years in federal prison for drugs and firearms charges after his drug deal went bad last August, near Kirkwood Community College, when a buyer tried to rip him off and he responded by shooting at him.

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Trish Mehaffey

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A Johnson County jury Friday found a Chicago man guilty of sexually assaulting an Iowa City woman who was sleeping in the early morning hours on Oct. 7, 2018. A jury deliberated about two hours, following nearly four days of trial, before convicting Jailyn Kelly, 26, of Chicago, of third-degree of sexual abuse. Kelly faces 10 years in prison.