Counterfeit IE Checks Hit Iowa Retailers, Hy Vee Most Targeted
Detective Don Potter reports 85 counterfeit Iowa Electric Light and Power Co checks cashed across Iowa since early September. Hy Vee suffered the largest loss at 4 486.82 from 18 checks, about 23 percent of total losses and 20 percent of checks. A suspect, Rex V. Strickland, 51, of Marshalltown, faces a false use charge in Ottumwa related to a Oct 6 Hy Vee incident.
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Don Potter
Cedar Rapids
Potter
Barlow
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Council Bluffs
South Sioux City
Neb
Sioux City
Ottumwa
Rex
Strickland
Marshalltown
Wapello District Court
I-380 progress targets Urbana opening by 1983 end
IDOT officials announced I-380 from Seventh to 32nd streets NE will open Friday with the southbound lanes first. The mile long $26 million segment connects to Urbana by late 1983, ahead of a future 32nd Street to Carpenter Road segment. The Urbana Lions Club raised funds for a connecting overpass four miles northwest of Urbana.
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Urbana
City
Iowa Department of Transportation
Seventh
Eighth Streets
29Th
32Nd Streets
Don Canney
IDOT
William Gray
Don Gardner
Cedar Rapids
Robert Henely
Center Point Road
Henery
Wayne Murdock
City Public Improvements
Henely
32Nd Street
Carpenter Road
Hiawatha
42Nd Street NE
Edgewood Road
Independence
Raymond
Richart
Police radio change eyed for direct car to car talks
Linn County officials and Cedar Rapids police consider allowing direct car to car communication over patrol radios. The issue arose after Cedar Rapids officers and some deputies circulated a petition to Public Safety Commissioner Floyd Bergen. Options discussed include scanner purchases and reassigning frequencies.
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Linn Sheriff's Deputies
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Metropolitan Public Safety Telecommunications Board
Marion
Public Safety
Floyd Bergen
Raymond Baker
Baker
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