Mitchell Schmidt

Iowa City Press-Citizen

Four teens face assault charges after throwing water balloons at pedestrians.

According to Iowa City police complaints, four individuals were traveling in a vehicle along Prentiss Street west of The Vine at about 11:30 p.m. Aug. 17 when one of the passengers threw a water balloon at a passerby, hitting the victim in the leg.

The victim told officers the group had thrown water balloons at him on multiple occasions and police say at least four subjects were involved in the multiple drive-by water balloon strikes, according to police.

One day later, at 10:45 p.m. near the corner of Court and Dubuque streets, the same victim was nearly hit by a water balloon thrown at him from the same vehicle, police say.

Officers stopped a vehicle matching a description provided by the victim and charged Dallas K. Nye and Benjamin K. Miller of Wellman, Jameson R. Lammer of Kalona and Michael T. Leyden of Washington with simple misdemeanor counts of assault, according to police. All four suspects are 18.

While other victims had reported similar water balloon attacks, none wished to press charges, police say. All four suspects admitted to throwing water balloons and additional balloons were found in the car, according to police.