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Crime

Karina Cooper murder trial set to begin next week

TOLEDO – Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Karina Sue Cooper’s first-degree murder trial will proceed as scheduled beginning July 1 in Linn County. On Friday, June 20, Karina Cooper, 47, and her attorneys Aaron Hawbaker and Nichole Watt both with the Waterloo Public Defender’s ...

Former Elberon librarian gets suspended prison sentence

TOLEDO — Judge Mark Fisher dismissed allegations of prosecutorial and juror misconduct leveled by the defense and proceeded to issue former Elberon Public Library Director Bailey Jenkins a five-year suspended prison sentence during a hearing at the Tama County Courthouse in Toledo on ...

Alleged swatting incident in Tama under investigation

Alongside the Tama and Toledo police departments, the Tama County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a report of a swatting call believed to have originated from the video game Fortnite in Tama last Wednesday morning. According to a press release from the Tama County Sheriff’s Office, ...

‘We’ll keep being loud’

MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — The 10-year anniversary of Rita Papakee’s disappearance on Jan. 16, 2015 has come and passed, and although that date brought some attention back to the case of the Meskwaki Settlement woman who was 41 when she went missing, members of her family are still frustrated ...

Tama man pleads guilty to distributing and possessing child pornography

CEDAR RAPIDS — Jacob Samuel Yang, age 36, from Tama, pled guilty last Thursday in federal court in Cedar Rapids to distributing child pornography and possessing child pornography. In a plea agreement, Yang admitted that in March 2024, he sent child pornography to other people. He stored ...

Tama man faces multiple charges after high speed chase

A local man was arrested and charged with multiple offenses last Wednesday after allegedly leading a Tama police officer who attempted to pull him over on a high speed chase. According to a criminal complaint, Officer Logan Andrews ran the plates for a parked vehicle belonging to Bostyn ...

The great trailer robbery

On March 19, the Toledo Police Department released a statement about a trailer that was stolen from Chyma's Machine and Welding on March 17. After an investigation was started and a suspect was identified, a related search warrant was conducted in Hardin County on March 18. The trailer was ...

‘Education is power’

Last Thursday, the Reinig Center was filled with citizens looking to learn a thing or two. Toledo Police Chief Dan Quigley and Tama County Sheriff Casey Schmidt knew that a scam prevention seminar like this could provide important information to them. Investigator Al Perales, who has ...

Karina Cooper’s murder trial reset to July 2025

Karina Sue Cooper’s first degree murder trial has been reset to this July. This is the second reset in the case. After being arrested in February 2024 in connection with her husband Ryan Cooper’s murder, the trial was originally set to begin on Oct. 1, 2024, before being moved for the ...