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1/4/21
Iowa City Police have arrested a third suspect in a riot at the Old Capitol Town Center parking ramp last spring.
22-year-old Robert Walker of Heinz Road is also accused of using his own address and phone number in a credit card fraud scheme.
Walker and a group of other men are accused of assaulting two individuals at the Capitol Street parking ramp on June 5th. The two were reportedly assaulted by five or six individuals, with Walker being among them. The men were identified by surveillance video. Two other suspects, 22-year-old Narada Poole and 21-year-old Marquel Poole, have also been charged in the case.
Walker is also facing theft charges after he allegedly accessed stolen credit card information and ran up over $3,000 in bills from CHOMP. Police say Walker used fake email and names to make CHOMP accounts, but the accounts came back to his real address and phone number. CHOMP representatives told investigators they recognized Walker from deliveries.
Walker was booked into the Johnson County Jail just before 6:15 Monday morning and charged with Participating in a Riot and 2nd Degree Theft. If convicted on both charges, he faces a maximum of seven years in prison.
Walker was charged with two counts of 1st Degree Robbery and one count of Carrying Weapons in 2018 after University of Iowa Police say he and a juvenile robbed two people at gunpoint outside Rienow Hall. The charges were dropped in a plea deal with prosecutors, and Walker was given a five-year prison sentence on an Extortion charge.