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).
In 1653, some Virginians settled in what would become North Carolina. In 1663, King Charles II issued a royal charter to eight nobles to settle the area south of Virginia. They created Carolina and included the previous settlement. However, because of internal problems, the crown took over the colony and formed North and South Carolina out of it in 1729.