Channel-lock burglar sweeps Southwest homes
Police report a pattern of burglary on the Southwest side Wednesday night with channel-lock pliers and pry bars used to enter several homes. Items taken included a stereo amplifier, speakers, turntable, a four-diamond ring, a gold chain, a revolver, blank checks, and watches. Several residences were ransacked. in one entry no items were reported missing.
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Kevin Wallace
Lth Ave
Richard Mumm
Devonwood Ave
Carroll and
Dean Millard
Patricia M. Thorpe
Southland St
Marie Ellis
Bowling St
Campaign Trail Highlights Iowa House Races in District 28
Repub candidate G L Pete Bell spoke at Greg Abernathy residence urging limited government and common sense representation. Democratic rival Richard Running criticized utility rate hikes and urged truth in political advertising and direct constituent contact. Also notes John Adams birth on this date in 1735.
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G.L
Pete) Bell
Iowa
House of Representatives
Greg Abernathy
Fifth St
Bell
Commerce Commission
Davenport Man Charged in Kim Lam Stabbing Death
Willie M. Jones, 23, of Davenport is jailed on $100,000 bond for first degree murder in the stabbing death of Kim Lam, 24, in Jones’s former girlfriend’s apartment. The attack occurred about 4 10 a.m. Wednesday after an intruder waited in a bedroom closet and lunged at the couple as they returned from an evening out. Valerie Douglas, 20, fled to a neighbor’s home and alerted police. Jones was later arrested at a friend’s apartment in Davenport.
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Davenport
Willie M. Jones
Scott County
Kim Lam
Kim
Jones
Valerie
Douglas
Cedar Rapids police cover Spicer trip costs for Detroit polygraph
City billed for fuel as Officer Merle Spicer flies to Detroit and back in a city plane to take a polygraph test. The trip ties to Daniel Elliott’s Civil Service Commission appeal over an August purse theft and disputed polygraph results. The report also notes a request from Cedar Rapids Bicycle Moto Cross Club for land to build a track and updates on an elementary school break-in, a second assault arrest of Randy Hanover, landfill Saturday hours, and theft charges against John Hebert.
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Cedar Rapids
Merle Spicer
Detroit
Spicer
Raymond Baker
Daniel Elliott
Civil Service Commission
Elliott
William Byrne
Karen Bartling
Bartling
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
Newton
Iowa
Randy J. Hanover
Palo
Hanover
SGA
Second St. SE
Third Avenue
Shake Your Bootie Disco shooting leads to murder charge
A tavern fight at the Shake Your Bootie Disco in Des Moines ended with a 32 caliber shot. George L. Pirtle Jr., 28, of 1905 Park Ave SE, is charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting Roy Williams, 30, of 1409 Bever Ave SE, who was treated and released from Mercy Hospital. Williams was shot in the upper arm. Pirtle was arrested at the scene and held in Linn County Jail.
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George L. Pirtle Jr
Ninth Ave. SE
Williams
Mercy Hospital
Pirtle
Linn County
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