Lang
7/6/23
The Iowa City Police Department has charged a North Liberty man for a September 6th, 2022, sexual assault that occurred on the 600 block of South Lucas Street.
According to an ICPD news release, 25-year-old Asante Walker-Garcia Adams of Heritage Drive has been charged in the case. Walker-Garcia Adams was arrested by the ICPD in May after he was developed as a suspect in a pair of sexual assaults in Waterloo. Those cases involved Walker-Garcia Adams reportedly breaking into residences to sexually assault someone inside. He was charged with two counts each of 2nd Degree Sexual Assault and 1st Degree Burglary in Black Hawk County.
DNA evidence collected in those cases has now led to Walker-Garcia Adams being charged with two counts of 2nd Degree Sexual Assault and one count each of 2nd Degree Robbery and 1st Degree Burglary in the South Lucas Street case. Police say Walker-Garcia Adams burst through the woman’s door around 9:30pm and attacked her while she was in bed, at one point threatening to kill her with a knife. He reportedly took money and the woman’s phone and fled the scene.
Walker-Garcia Adams was reportedly tied to the scene via cellphone records. Police say his wife sent him a screenshot from a Ring doorbell video disseminated by police and asked him, “So that’s a random guy with dreads, similar eyes, similar height? Happened same time u were there?”
If convicted on charges from all three cases, Walker-Garcia Adams faces a maximum sentence of 160 years in prison.