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Crime

Danker’s murder trial reset to late January 2025

TOLEDO – Huston William Danker’s first degree murder trial which was originally set to begin on Nov. 4, 2024, has been reset again. On Sept. 6, defense attorney Leon F. Spies of Iowa City, Assistant Attorneys General Michael H. Ringle and Israel J. Kodiaga, and Tama County Attorney Brent ...

Tama man charged with kidnapping, grooming

On Sept. 5, the Toledo Police Department formally filed charges against a Tama man suspected of grooming, kidnapping and sexually abusing a teenage victim. Jose Sic Muz, 40, was taken to the Tama County Jail, and he has since posted a $10,000 bond and been released. According to a criminal ...

Tama man dies after being run over by vehicle in Marshalltown

MARSHALLTOWN — Ezra Oliver Seymour, 23, of Tama, was pronounced dead on Saturday after he was intentionally run over by a car in Marshalltown early that morning. Trequan Merez Cosgrove, 25, of Marshalltown, who had previously been convicted of multiple felonies in connection with a 2019 ...

Tama man charged with vandalizing Sandhill Auto Salvage

Local man Christian Ramirez-Zepeda, 19, was arrested by the Tama County Sheriff's Department on Sunday, Aug. 18, and charged with first degree criminal mischief, a Class C felony. Ramirez-Zepeda was charged with a crime allegedly committed back on the weekend of April 19. According to a ...

Karina Cooper’s murder trial reset to February 2025

TOLEDO – Karina Sue Cooper’s first degree murder trial has been reset to February of 2025. On July 30, Assistant Attorney General Michael H. Ringle filed a motion for a continuance of the 10-day jury trial which had been set to begin Oct. 1 of this year. The State asked for the date ...