Emily Leonard’s family says no amount of prison would be enough for the man who fatally beat their loved one with a metal rod, causing her death in April 2022. A Linn County jury found Arthur Flowers, 62, charged with first-degree murder, guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Flowers on Friday was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A Cedar Rapids man accused of fatally assaulting his mother in 2020 has waived a jury trial and will have a bench trial Nov. 7. The prosecution is also amending the murder charge against George Dreason from first-degree to second-degree murder.
The man, who held a knife to a woman’s neck, choked her and tried to smother her with a pillow as he sexually assaulted her, pleaded to third-degree sex abuse and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
An Illinois man will plead guilty next week to one of his charges from a 2021 fatal crash on I-380. He was intoxicated and crashed his pickup truck into an SUV, killing 23-year-old David Nguyen of Cedar Rapids, according to court documents.
A Linn County jury found a Cedar Rapids man guilty of 13 charges for pointing, and aiming a shotgun at two police officers in July 2022. He faces up to 83 years in prison.