The teams work opposite shifts to allow for a wider time span of coverage and are used in locker searches, crowd control, narcotic detection, suspect tracking and have been utilized by the Muscatine County Drug Task Force, Iowa State Patrol and the department's Street Crimes Unit. Each year brings its challenges, too. In 2014, three people were charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Muscatine residents Timothy Lane, Troy Ott and Michael Newman.
One of the 13 original colonies, Virginia was the first part of the country permanently settled by the English, who established Jamestown on the banks of the James River in 1607. The home state of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers, Virginia played an important role in the American Revolution (1775-83).
As settlement expanded westward, enslaved Africans and African Americans were among the settlers in backcountry areas. Nearly 40% of the Africans imported into Virginia during this time were brought from a part of the West African coast called the Bight of Biafra.