Sketch prompts calls after release of suspect image
Police received over six calls after Tuesday publishing a two-suspect sketch for a July 26 robbery kidnapping on the northeast side. The victims described two white men in their 20s who forced a husband to drive to the Iowa Liquor Store on Fifth Avenue SE while a small amount of cash was stolen. Police seek tips to Cedar Rapids Detective Bureau Daniel Griffin. In Madison a separate case charges armed robbery abduction and attempted murder for two Iowa teenagers. the driver escaped unharmed after a gunfight near Lake Mendota following a store pickup to Dane County Airport. The suspects were later arrested near Waunakee with the couple hitchhiking.
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Iowa
Fifth Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Madison
Wis
Lake Mendota
Waunakee
Rodney Heinle
Angela Tucker
Palo
Dane County
Burglary Charge Filed in July Hennessey Site Break-in
Andrew Gaal 30 of 1063 Fifth Ave SE jailed Tuesday on a second degree burglary charge linked to a July 22 break-in at the Hennessey Construction site at 1561 First Ave SE. Police say a lawnmower chain saw and other items were stolen. Gaal held in Linn County Jail as the county attorney reviews the charge.
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Andrew Gaal
Fifth Ave
Hennessey
First Ave
Gaal
Linn
Burglary charges for Gatto and Williams in Linn County
Paul W. Gatto aged 19 of 1203 Ninth St NE and Michael J. Williams aged 20 of 1103 Sixth St NW were charged with burglary after police responding to an alarm at A and W Root Beer 1136 Ellis Blvd NW found them near the restaurant. A window had been broken to gain entry and both suspects were held in Linn County Jail Tuesday on $10,000 bond.
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Paul W. Gatto
Ninth St. NE
Michael J. Williams
Sixth St
A & W Root Beer
Ellis Blvd
Linn County
Cedar Rapids Man Arrested For Disorderly Conduct After Gunfire
Thomas Buchanan of Route 4 Cedar Rapids was arrested at 10 20 p m Monday on disorderly conduct charges following a gunfire incident at his Cedar Crest Woods home near Highways 13 and 30. Deputies said he fired two shots from a .45 automatic, refused to come out, then surrendered after being contacted by a sheriff's deputy. He posted a 150 dollar bond and was released from Linn County Jail.
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Thomas Buchanan
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Crest Woods
Linn County Sheriff's Department
Buchanan
Sheriff's Department
Linn County
County Board OKs tractor purchase and consultant contract
Linn County supervisors approved buying a John Deere endloader tractor for 15 427 dollars from Schwitters Inc with a 10 000 dollar trade in. The lone rival bid was 15 500 dollars trade included from Dvorak Implement Inc Coggan. They also contracted 21 000 dollars to David M. Griffiths and Associates Ltd to monitor federal program administrative costs through June 30 1983.
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Linn County
Board of Supervisors
John Deere
Schwitters Inc
Cedar Rapids
Dvorak Implement Inc
Coggan
Cornell Receives $75000 Kresge Challenge Grant
Cornell College Mount Vernon has been awarded a $75,000 challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation to finish renovating South Hall. South Hall, a 19th century humanities center housing English and politics departments, sits in the Cornell College Mount Vernon Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places last July. A famous visitor to South Hall is noted in the article.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Kresge Foundation of
Troy
Mich
South Hall
Cornell
Man Charged in June Happy Joe's Robbery
Police arrest Randall D. Paul 20 of 1334 C St. SW on first degree robbery for the June 13 armed robbery of Happy Joe's Pizza at 3136 Mount Vernon Road SE. Paul held in Linn County Jail as search for second suspect continues.
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Randall D. Paul
C St
Happy Joe's Pizza
Mount Vernon Road
Paul
Linn County
Cornell Plans Funding Move for West Science Center
The Kresge Foundation will grant funds with Cornell covering the remaining balance. The foundation previously aided construction of the West Science Center in 1976. Sebastian S. Kresge funded the foundation. since 1924, over 416 million has been appropriated to institutions.
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Carl Sandburg
Kresge Foundation
Cornell
West Science
Sebastian S. Kresge
Kresge
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