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8/6/21
A Coralville woman who allegedly hit her boyfriend over the head with a flashlight before trying to run him down in a truck and chasing him with a meat cleaver now faces charges that she stole an iPad from the University of Iowa children’s hospital.
41-year-old Vanessa Ramirez of 4th Avenue was booked into the Johnson County Jail at 9:15 Wednesday morning. UI Police say Ramirez was a patient at the UI Hospitals and Clinics on May 24th when she checked out an iPad from the Stead Family Children’s Hospital library. The iPad was delivered to Ramirez by a nurse with the stipulation that it be returned by the following Monday. Ramirez was discharged on May 28th, but never returned the iPad.
Ramirez was arrested on an unrelated warrant on June 12th. She allegedly told investigators that the iPad was at a house, but she didn’t want to specify the location of the house because she didn’t want the police to go there. But before she was released from custody, Ramirez did promise to return the iPad. Police tried to contact Ramirez two weeks later, but they say she ignored phone calls and couldn’t be reached at the address she provided.
Ramirez was given a 30 day sentence with credit for time served and a $650 fine in 2019 after she attacked her then-boyfriend at Garage Mahaul on Alyssa Court. Police say Ramirez hit the man over the head with a flashlight, causing an injury. Police say she then got into the victim’s truck and chased him with it in the parking lot, stating that she was going to run him over.
Ramirez also allegedly held a meat cleaver and a screwdriver and told the man she was going to stab him, and that it would not end until one of them was dead.
If convicted of the new 4th Degree Theft charge, Ramirez faces a maximum of one year in jail.