{"id":823730,"date":"2026-08-24T01:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823730\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:44:21","slug":"hospital-patient-accused-of-destroying-50000-worth-of-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823730\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital patient accused of destroying $50,000 worth of computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; A patient at UnityPoint Health &#8211; St. Luke\u2019s Hospital is accused of causing $50,000 worth of damage to hospital equipment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a criminal complaint, officers arrived at St. Luke\u2019s Hospital Friday for reports of a male breaking a computer and needing to be restrained by security staff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The complaint said 37-year-old Cory Hogan, of Waterloo, was upset with hospital staff for attempting to make him stay as an inpatient. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The complaint said Hogan then completely damaged two Bio Med computer systems by punching one and throwing the other to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The estimate for the cost of the two computers is $50,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hogan is charged with Criminal Mischief in the 1st Degree, a class C felony. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; A patient at UnityPoint Health &#8211; St. Luke\u2019s Hospital is accused of causing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[15825,349072,349071,349067,97,252,253,349073,349070,255902,349068,349065,349069,349066,222521,290138],"class_list":["post-823730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-cedar-rapids","tag-cedar-rapids-hospital-patient-arrested","tag-cedar-rapids-hospitals","tag-cory-allen-hogan","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital-computers-destroyed","tag-hospital-patient-destroys-computer","tag-st-lukes","tag-st-lukes-patient-arrest","tag-st-lukes-hospital","tag-st-lukes-hospital-patient-arrested","tag-unity-point","tag-unitypoint","tag-unitypoint-st-lukes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}