Police: Cedar Rapids Man Holds Gun on Woman, Children During Robbery

A Cedar Rapids man has been charged with multiple felonies after allegedly aiming a handgun at a woman and her children during a robbery at Breckenridge Estates mobile home court Monday.

According to documents from the Johnson County Sheriff's Department, on Aug. 5 at 11:30 a.m. Joel Zamora, 28, of Cedar Rapids and a co-defendant, who has not yet been named by authorities, entered a housing unit in the mobile home court at 4494 Taft Avenue occupied by a woman and her three children.

Zamora allegedly then pointed a gun at a woman's head inside and asked where her where her money was. The woman reportedly pointed Zamora to her purse, and then he allegedly pointed the gun at the children, and then took $1,900 from her purse. According to the arrest document, Zamora then told the children to go into the bathroom and count to 100. He then allegedly placed tape over the woman's mouth and taped her hands to her back before leaving.

Zamora was arrested and booked into the Johnson County Jail on Tuesday night according to online jail records. He was charged with first-degree burglary, a Class B felony; false imprisonment, a serious misdemeanor; and assault while participating in a felony, a Class D felony. He is being held in the Muscatine County Jail on $100,000 bail.

Zamora has a previous felony on his record from 2003 in Polk County, where he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a forcible felony, assault while participating in a felony, reckless use of a firearm which resulted in an injury. He also appears to have been charged with first-degree robbery and attempted third-degree burglary from this incident but those were not filed against him.