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Crime

Toledo man charged with possessing child pornography

A Toledo man is facing a total of 10 felony charges after an extensive investigation into allegations that he possessed child pornography and the prior execution of a search warrant on July 30. Ronald Wyatt Langbecker Jr., 19, has been charged with 10 counts of purchase/possession of a ...

Electric Motorcycle Accident Leads to Discussion

At around 10 p.m. on July 18, there was a collision between an electric motorcycle and an SUV at the intersection of West 7th Street and McClellan Street in Tama. Preliminary investigation suggests that two juveniles failed to obey a stop sign while traveling west on the electric motorcycle ...

Former Tama County jailer charged with sexual abuse

A now former Tama County jailer has been arrested and charged with two counts of second degree sexual abuse, both Class B felonies, over events that allegedly occurred in 2023. On Monday, the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) arrested 21-year-old Clayton Killian of Dysart, who was ...

Woman arrested after high speed chase in Toledo

A woman was arrested on Tuesday, June 9, after allegedly leading Toledo Police Department officers on a chase that ended on the Midwest Sleep property. Kathleen Amber Dolan, 34, allegedly fled from the Arrowhead Mobile Home Park in a vehicle at a high rate of speed after officers were ...

Former Tama County jailer charged with sexual abuse

A now former Tama County jailer has been arrested and charged with two counts of second degree sexual abuse, both Class B felonies, over events that allegedly occurred in 2023. On Monday, the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) arrested 21-year-old Clayton Killian of Dysart, who was ...

Man convicted of 1980 Tama triple murder dies in prison

FORT MADISON — A former St. Anthony man who was serving a life sentence for murdering his estranged wife and two of her friends in Tama in 1980 died in prison on May 16, according to the Iowa Department of Corrections. Charles Cullor, 81, had been incarcerated since October of 1980 for the ...

In Custody and Suites

Ten agencies banded together on Sunday to safely take into custody 45-year-old Joshua Gustafson, who was staying at the Designer Inn and Suites in Toledo. Gustafson, of Pleasant Hill, had active felony arrest warrants with nationwide extradition following an assault and robbery in October. ...

‘Now go to hell’

TOLEDO — Huston William Danker was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 3, to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in connection with the June 2021 death of Ryan Cooper. The sentencing took place Friday morning in Tama County District Court, in ...