An Alvord, Iowa, man has been sentenced to probation for vehicular homicide in connection with the death of a Rock Valley, Iowa, woman who was a passenger in his car.
At 5:45 p.m. Friday, deputies executed a search warrant at a residence in the 500 block of South Perth St. in Schaller.
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The crash happened at 10:30 p.m. at the intersection of K22 and C12.
"There were a lot of homeless that were sleeping there, going underneath the shelter that they have there. Cook Park was the same way. Now, they're all out of there at closing time," Woodbury County Deputy Sage Lewis said of those frequenting Sioux City's Mid City Park.
Corona-Ruiz, 22, of Sioux City, was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Sept. 21 shooting death of Schwebach, 34, of Sioux City, who died of a single shot to the chest. Corona-Ruiz has pleaded not guilty.
A Woodbury County jury has found a man guilty of taking video of a female friend while she was naked and unconscious in her home and sending it to others.
A man who fled on a bicycle from a Sioux City store after stealing a gun was sentenced Thursday to more than two years in federal prison.
According to court documents, Peterson, who served as the city clerk/treasurer/administrator, erased more than 20 years of email accounts, passwords, operating programs, documents and records from her city laptop computer prior to her Feb. 1, 2023, firing.
Walker had sexual contact with the child during a two-year period that began about Dec. 1, 2021, and continued until Jan. 31.
Corona-Ruiz, 22, of Sioux City, has pleaded not guilty of first-degree murder in connection with the Sept. 21 shooting of 34-year-old Michael Schwebach, of Sioux City. Schwebach was shot once in the chest and was pronounced dead an hour later at a hospital.
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Silas is the suspected driver of a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that police say was eastbound at a high rate of speed on West Third Street the evening of July 21, when it broadsided a northbound Volkswagen in the intersection with Rebecca Street.
A Woodbury County Jail inmate was hospitalized overnight Thursday after a brutal attack by another inmate who now faces a charge of attempted murder. The inmate is charged with repeatedly punching the victim, putting him in a choke hold and stomping on his head during an incident that lasted approximately 12 minutes.
Self, 24, and Sarah Zoelle, 31, had been arguing throughout the day at their home at 3319 Nebraska St. She was on the phone with a 911 operator reporting the domestic disturbance when Self fired a single shot from a few feet away that struck her in the abdomen.
Branden Wingert, 22, of Battle Creek, shot Kevin Blume, 53, also of Battle Creek, on May 24 with a .22-caliber handgun after an altercation in the 300 block of Fifth Street.
"Criminal Mischief is second degree if the cost of replacing, repairing, or restoring the property so damaged, defaced, altered, or destroyed exceeds one thousand dollars but does not exceed ten thousand dollars," the statement said.
Sioux City man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of barging into an apartment and threatening to kill the occupants with a knife. According to a complaint: Once inside, he took two knives from the kitchen, using one to barricade the apartment door and the other to threaten the four occupants.
A red artificial flower tied to a chain-link fence marks the spot where Dau Deng Ador, a member of Sioux City's South Sudanese community, was found dead in a Sergeant Bluff storage yard in early January. He had only been living in Sioux City about five months before he went missing just days before his birthday.
Ruskamp is charged with the Sept. 7, 2022, shooting death of Gerald Ruskamp, 65, at a rural Wayne County home.
Sioux City man charged with sexually assaulting a minor has pleaded not guilty. The 18-year-old entered his written plea Thursday in Woodbury County District Court to one count of second-degree sexual abuse, a Class B felony.
A Spirit Lake man's attempted murder case has been scheduled for trial after a judge determined he was mentally competent to stand trial.
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A Sioux City woman convicted of 52 counts of voter fraud is asking a federal appeals court to overturn her conviction and acquit her. Federal prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to support Kim Taylor's guilty verdict and the trial judge erred in denying her request to provide jurors with instructions.
Amy Adams, a public affairs specialist for the FBI Omaha field office, said in an email that the death occurred Sunday at the Omaha Tribe C-Store.
Dale Kasprzyk, the former resident agent in charge of the DEA's Buffalo office, testified Tuesday that former agent Joseph Bongiovanni never told him he had been a childhood friend of Peter Gerace Jr.
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According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Cardona-Tinajero received packages of methamphetamine through the mail from California to a Sioux City home from January 2023 through September. He and others sold nearly 20 pounds of meth in the Sioux City area.
Jurors heard opening statements Monday in a retrial in which ex-DEA Agent Joseph Bongiovanni is accused of accepting at least $250,000 in bribes from the Ron Serio drug-trafficking organization in exchange for protecting its members from arrest and alerting them of informants.
A witness told police that about 12 hours earlier, he had heard bangs and observed the boyfriend taking fireworks from the house. The boyfriend told the witness Wilcox had been lighting curtains on fire and setting off fireworks in an attempt to start the house on fire.
The appeals judges said tribal sovereignty bars Nebraska from collecting revenue on tobacco sales on the reservation to Winnebago Tribe members. However, the state may regulate and collect revenue from on-reservation tobacco sales to people who are not tribal members.