Iowa County Pays $285,000 To Man Wrongly Jailed For 68 Days

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa county agreed Wednesday to pay $285,000 to an Arizona man who was arrested, transported across the country and jailed for 68 days for a crime that he did not commit.
The payment will resolve a federal lawsuit that 23-year-old Joseph McBride filed in early January against Linn County and its longtime top prosecutor, County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden.
McBride was wrongly accused of participating in a Jan. 1, 2017, home invasion in Cedar Rapids in which a 2