Burglary suspect shot by Iowa City Police faces new charge
Lang
6/15/19
A burglary suspect shot by Iowa City Police now faces a new charge.
34-year-old Michael Cintron-Caceres faces a felony Forgery charge after allegedly writing a $150 check on May 1st on a checkbook that was not his. Police say he forged the check owner’s name and cashed it. If convicted, Cintron-Caceres faces a maximum of five years in prison.
Cintron-Caceres also faces charges of 3rd Degree Burglary and Assault on a Police Officer after the May 9th incident that saw him shot by a pair of Iowa City Police Officers. According to arrest records, at approximately 2:30am that morning Cintron-Caceres fled from ICPD officers who were investigating two burglaries at Pizza Hut on Keokuk Street and The Second Act on Olympic Court. Cintron-Caceres jumped two fences to enter a secured lot of Big Ten Rentals on Boyrum Street, where he hid in a truck. When found, Cintron-Caceres started the truck and used it to smash into vehicles and equipment in the lot. ICPD officers’ verbal commands, deployment of the police canine and shooting a Taser were ineffective in getting Cintron-Caceres to stop. An ICPD officer fired his weapon at Cintron-Caceres, but he continued to ram the truck. Only after a second officer shot at Cintron-Caceres did Cintron-Caceres halt his action. Two of the officers’ bullets struck Cintron-Caceres, hitting his right and left shoulders.
The two officers, Alex Stricker and Travis Neeld, have since been cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting.
Cintron-Caceres has been charged with two counts of Robbery in the First Degree stemming from two incidents unrelated to the May 9th shooting. On May 7th, he’s accused of forcing a cash register open and stealing approximately $280 from the Suburban BP Amoco on Keokuk Street. He’s also accused of threatening a cashier at Romantix and forcing the register there, taking over $100 in cash on April 30th.
