Edward Harold Corey, Jr.
CEDAR RAPIDS — The federal criminal complaint accusing Edward Harold Corey, 57, of escape from a Cedar Rapids halfway house was dismissed without prejudice by Judge Linda Reade today, following a motion to dismiss by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to the July 12 complaint, the U.S. Marshals Service believed that Corey (a/k/a James Allen Reed) escaped from the Gerald R. Hinzman Center in Cedar Rapids on July 11, which was two months short of his projected release date.
The motion to dismiss noted that Corey has since been charged in Dakota County, Nebraska, for a bank robbery in South Sioux City, which happened on Aug. 2.
Corey was arrested in North Dakota on Aug. 6.
Prosecutors requested that the complaint be dismissed without prejudice, “leaving the option available to the United States to re-file that charge in the future.”
