A Sioux City woman has been sentenced to prison for stabbing the same man for a second time.
According to court documents, Sandra Edwards, 40, will serve up to two years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated domestic assault for the Aug. 11 stabbing of Tracy Godfrey under the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Sioux City.
Defense attorneys threw an interesting twist into what was supposed to be a routine pretrial hearing Tuesday for Andrew Orellana, a Sioux City man accused of shooting and killing a rival gang member back in 1997.
Prior to the hearing, Orellana’s attorneys filed a motion asking prosecutors to produce a variety of evidence.
Tops on the list was details of a phone call someone made to Sioux City police, reporting that a gun used in the murder was in a police officer’s mailbox.
Say what?
The silence has broken.
Although there have been several filings over the summer in Timothy Sohler’s murder case, most were to postpone court dates or involved regular court procedures.
That’s a stark contrast to the Lawrence Douglas Harris murder case, during which I accumulated two huge stacks of court filings.
However, in the past few weeks attorneys for both sides in the Sohler case have shown a bit more about what we may see when he goes to trial on Oct. 20.
HINTON, Iowa — Please don’t panic if you see a fleet of local, state and federal emergency vehicles crammed into the downtown Hinton on Saturday.
I can’t blame anyone for being curious. People have plenty of time to notice things in Hinton because they have to brake down to a crawl to get through there on Highway 75 without getting pulled over for speeding.
But I can honestly say don’t worry: It’s probably just a drill.
The crime blog has been lacking a little lately, but those following my Journal Twitter account can tell you they’re still getting their crime news fix.
Several Sioux City Journal reporters and me, as well as the Journal itself, post regular updates on twitter accounts.
It’s free, pretty fun and more local people are using it than you might think. Twelve staffers at the Journal tweet on a regular basis.
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