A college student was stabbed to death in an off-campus incident in Oskaloosa. Police were called to the Jiffy Convenience store in Oskaloosa shortly before 11 last night on a report of an injured man. Officers found 22 year old Marquis Todd of Woodbridge, Illinois, suffering from a stab wound. He was taken to a hospital where he later died of his injuries.

According to witnesses, an altercation occurred after a minor traffic accident during which Todd was stabbed. Todd was a former member of the William Penn Statesmen basketball team. His body has been taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Ankeny for autopsy. So far, no arrests have been made.

(Radio Iowa)

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Six people from Dubuque have been sentenced for participation in a phone call scam that victimized more than 250 elderly victims across the country. The six were sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. All six pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

Prosecutors say the scheme consisted of phone calls to elderly people across the country, telling victims that relatives were jailed and that money should be wired to free them. The six handled the wire transfers.

Prosecutors say 33-year-old Tobey Hines was given 33 months; 33-year-old Tiffany Reynolds was given 19 months; Joshua Willis was given 23 months; 23-year-old Payton McCarville was given eight months; 21-year-old Morgan Cornell was given 14 months; and 34-year-old Paul Chase was given 15 months.

They also were ordered to pay restitution.

The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports that on February 27, 2018, 35-year old Walter J. O’Donohue, III, of Omaha,  Neb., was sentenced to 15 years in prison, fined $50,000, and ordered to serve five-years of supervised release following his prison term, for Conspiracy to Distribute a Fentanyl Analogue that caused death or serious bodily injury.  United States District Court Senior Judge James Gritzner handed down the sentence.

O’Donohue was part of a drug trafficking organization responsible for receiving and  distributing fentanyl analogues obtained from a source in China to individuals in Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska. The investigation began on June 28, 2015, when law enforcement  officers were called to a Carter Lake, Iowa, residence regarding an unresponsive male. Law enforcement found the body of a 20-year old deceased male at the home. Law enforcement also discovered a second male had been transported to a local hospital, and placed on life support, from the same location prior to law enforcement’s arrival.

A subsequent investigation revealed co-defendant Charles Beuterbaugh provided acetyl fentanyl to both victims, which was determined to be the cause of death and the reason for the hospitalization. Beuterbaugh had obtained the acetyl fentanyl through an organization that began distributing fentanyl, or an analogue of fentanyl, in November of 2014 and continued to distribute into April of 2016. Further investigation into the overdose death revealed O’Donohue was responsible for the importation of the acetyl fentanyl ultimately distributed by co-defendant Beuterbaugh.

All members involved in the distribution of the acetyl fentanyl have entered guilty pleas. On October 26, 2017, Senior Judge Gritzner sentenced O’Donohue’s co-defendants, 27-year old Dustin C. Sullivan, of Council Bluffs, to 162 months and 31-year old Cody Lanus, of Omaha, Neb., to a term of imprisonment of 144 months. Michael David Redmond, Jr., who joined the conspiracy in December of 2015, was previously sentenced by Senior Judge Gritzner to 120 months in prison. Amalia N. Pandis is pending sentencing at a future date.

The investigation was conducted by the Carter Lake Police Department, Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, Council Bluffs Police Department, Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Force, Omaha Police Department, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Iowa Division of Narcotic Enforcement, United States Postal Inspection Service and United States Drug Enforcement Administration-Nebraska. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.

The Iowa Division of Investigation today (Friday) identified the subjects involved in Thursday’s shooting incident in Cresco.  Officers had responded to a 911 call at around 1:30-a.m. to a reported shooting at 700 South Elm Street #32 in Cresco.  Upon arrival, officers were confronted by 24-year old Brian Fullhart, at the residence who was uncooperative with officers and threatening to shoot officers. Local schools were asked to delay classes for two-hours, as a precaution. Fullhart was taken into cutody at 6:45 am., after a SWAT Team successfully negotiated his surrender.  Officers then entered the residence and located the body of a deceased female.  That female was later identified as Fullhart’s wife, 34-year old Zoanne Fullhart, of Decorah.

Brian Fullhart was arrested and charged with Murder in the First Degree and Going Armed with Intent.  He is currently in custody at the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Department, in Decorah.

CLINTON, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa man has been given 10 years in prison for fatally beating his 38-year-old son. The Clinton Herald reports that Glenn Plummer III, of Camanche, was sentenced Thursday. He’d pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter after prosecutors lowered the charge from second-degree murder and dropped a domestic abuse count.

Court records say a police officer found Plummer and his son, 38-year-old Joseph Plummer, the night of May 30 at a Camanche apartment. Joseph Plummer told investigators that his father had beaten him.
Police say Joseph Plummer died June 1 at a hospital. An autopsy was performed, and Joseph Plummer’s death was ruled a homicide.

The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports 44-year old Patrick Albert Baker, of Lorimor, was arrested Thursday night at the Union County Law Enforcement Center. Baker was arrested on a Union County warrant for failure to appear. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $5,000 bond.