Remains found near Gardner Lake last month identified
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Skeletal remains discovered last month near a Johnson County lake have been identified. The Johnson County Sheriffâs Office said Tuesday that the remains reported Jan. 12 near Gardner Lake have been identified as 48-year-old Matthew L. Manion.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Skeletal remains discovered last month near a Johnson County lake have been identified.
The Johnson County Sheriffâs Office said Tuesday that the
The cause of death remains under investigation.
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GARDNER, Kan. (AP) - The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office has identified skeletal remains found last month in northeastern Kansas near Gardner Lake.
Officials announced Tuesday that the remains are those of 48-year-old Matthew Lee Manion, Kansas City television station WDAF reported. The cause of death remains under investigation, officials said.
Manion’s remains were found Jan. 11 near the lake located just north of Gardner and recovered by crime scene investigators and detectives the next day. No other information on Manion or the investigation was immediately released.
That wasn’t unexpected as emergency workers face a higher risk of exposure simply because their jobs require daily contact with the community.
Despite that risk, the number of COVID-19 infections among first responders in Linn and Johnson counties has stayed relatively low.
Many of the Corridor departments attribute that fact to the mitigation protocols put in place at the start of the pandemic. Ten months later, those protocols still appear to be effective.
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The department has 225 police officers, and 155 officers and commanders are assigned to patrol. Public safety spokesman Greg Buelow said the positive cases were among all department employees, including civilians.
SWISHER Images of child pornography were found on a discarded laptop belonging to a Cedar Rapids man, authorities said.
According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, on May 5, 2020, a Johnson County Secondary Roads employee watched 32-year-old Dossell C. Carter pull his vehicle over on Interstate 380 and drop off a backpack behind some vegetation along the road. The backpack contained a laptop tracked back to Carter using user information and device records.
Deputies said they found 13 images depicting minors in sex acts on the laptop. The original files had been deleted, but copies were still found in a database on the laptop, authorities said. The database had been accessed between March 22 and May 5, the sheriff’s office said.
IOWA CITY Guns were recovered from two men following a chase, authorities said.
Two deputies witnessed a hit-and-run crash at 11:09 a.m. Friday at Melrose Avenue and Mormon Trek Boulevard. Deputies pursued the driver involved in the hit-and-run, later identified as Marwan K.M. Abdullmaged, 18, of Iowa City, according to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities said Abdullmaged fled west on Melrose and north on Highway 218 before losing control of his vehicle and ending up in a ditch.
Abdullmaged and his passenger, Zackarie D. Porter, 19, of Coralville, fled on foot. Authorities said Abdullmaged tried to toss a handgun to Porter, which fell in the snow and was recovered by deputies.