Hiawatha Man Who Assaulted Officers with a Car and a Loaded Firearm Sentenced to Federal Prison

A man who used his car to hit a Deputy United States Marshal’s car and then grabbed a loaded firearm was sentenced on May 22, 2025, to fourteen years in federal prison.

Nathan Isadore Jiles, age 25, from Hiawatha, Iowa, received the prison term after an October 15, 2024 guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a felon and a December 5, 2024 guilty plea to assault of a federal officer involving physical contact with the victim. 

Information from the sentencing showed that, on May 17, 2024, there was a warrant for Jiles’s arrest.  Members of the United States Marshals Service Northern Iowa Fugitive Task Force initiated a vehicle pin maneuver to arrest Jiles near the intersection of Interstate 380 and Blairs Ferry Road in Cedar Rapids.  Law enforcement vehicles were positioned on all four sides of Jiles’s car.  Law enforcement officers instructed Jiles to turn his car off and throw the keys out of the window.  Instead, Jiles reversed his car into a car occupied by a Deputy United States Marshal, causing the car door and dash to hit the deputy.  Jiles’s actions caused the deputy’s car to strike a Sixth Judicial District High Risk Unit Officer who was stationed behind the car in the chest.  Another officer approached Jiles’s car and tased him.  Jiles rolled up his window to disrupt the taser, and the officer broke the car window.  The officer saw Jiles holding a firearm with an extended magazine.  Jiles was either trying to work the slide of the firearm or pull the firearm from a holster.  The officer alerted the other members of the task force that Jiles was in possession of a firearm.  Jiles dropped the firearm but continued to resist arrest by pulling his hands back into the car where the loaded firearm was.  Officers had to tase Jiles several more times and then wrestle him out of his car and away from the firearm.  Jiles has prior convictions for sexual abuse in the third degree and felon in possession of a firearm. 

Jiles was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams.  Jiles was sentenced to 168 months’ imprisonment.  He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

Jiles is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kyndra Lundquist and investigated by the United States Marshals Service and the Northern Iowa Fugitive Task Force.  The Northern Iowa Fugitive Task Force is comprised of officers from the United States Marshals Service, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Cedar Rapids Police Department, Waterloo Police Department, Marion Police Department, Independence Police Department, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, and the Iowa Department of Corrections

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

The case file number is 24-CR-0039.

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