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California confession leads to arrest in Cedar Rapids cold case
Mykel Roberts. (Linn County Jail photo)
Cedar Rapids Police have made an arrest in a murder case that had gone unsolved since 2011.
Police spokesman, Greg Buelow, says the case involved the murder of 22-year-old Dexter Lashun Meeks, who was shot outside his home in the early morning of June 26th. The shooter was never found.
Buelow says the case was cold by 2012 after all the leads were exhausted and no suspect was identified. That all changed in April of last year when the Sheriff’s Office in Modesto, California called and said they had an inmate that was confessed to the Iowa murder.