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2/5/25
A third attendee has been charged in connection with a party at an Airbnb near Shueyville that was advertised on social media as having marijuana present.
Iowa City Police say 18-year-old Evelyn Newman-Sawyer of Waterloo is seen in video from the party and was found by officers in a car leaving the party around 11:00 on the night of February 17th, 2024. The party was advertised on social media as having marijuana present. Investigators say when they broke the party up they found 163 grams of marijuana and four firearms inside the residence, which is located on the 3000 block of 120th Street NE.
Newman-Sawyer and two other alleged attendees…23-year-old Ireonna Parks of Cedar Rapids and 20-year-old Sydney Miller of Fairfax…are all charged with Gathering Where Marijuana is Used. If convicted they each face a maximum of one year in jail. Miller is also accused of promoting the party on social media.
Parks is already facing a plea hearing on Thursday on Forgery and Malicious Prosecution charges out of Black Hawk County. She also has a February 12th trial scheduled for an Operating While Intoxicated charge out of Linn County. Parks was also given a suspended sentence on a 2nd Degree Theft charge out of Scott County in 2023, and she has numerous convictions for Driving While Barred.
In January of 2024 Miller was given a deferred judgement on a Failure to Affix a Drug Tax Stamp charge out of Linn County.