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Crime

Masked machete wielder identified, arrested

The Toledo Police Department has now identified and arrested 32-year-old Anthony Reitinger as last week's masked man who wielded a machete around Toledo. Reitinger is a registered sex offender after being convicted of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse in 2014. The Toledo Police ...

Toledo Police Department searching for ‘masked man with a machete’

TOLEDO - A masked man wielding a machete may seem like something out of a horror movie, but it was a reality in Toledo this week. The Toledo Police Department released screenshots from a Ring Home Doorbell video on Monday that showed a masked figure brandishing a machete on a local resident's ...

Karina Cooper’s murder trial reset to October 2024

TOLEDO – Karina Sue Cooper’s first degree murder trial previously scheduled to begin next week on July 9 in Linn County has been reset to Oct. 1, 2024. The planned 10-day jury trial was rescheduled by Chief Judge Lars G. Anderson last Friday in response to a motion by Cooper who waived ...

No major revelations after new search for Rita Papakee

MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — A search began on Saturday, June 8 and finished last Wednesday for missing Meskwaki woman Rita Janelle Papakee, who was last seen on Jan. 16, 2015. The search was conducted by the Meskwaki Nation Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Evidence ...

Weekly Record: Nov. 30-Dec. 6

Arrest Report – Tama County Jail A criminal charge is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Thursday, Nov. 30 Pedro Antonio Perez-Perez (44) of Tama was arrested for violation of probation by the Tama County Sheriff’s Department in ...