Joan Namachemo

Cheeks is one of three men accused of robbing Mike Wasike and leaving him brutally beaten in the street last February.  Cheeks is charged with two counts of first-degree robbery. Wasike is now confined to a wheelchair. Cheeks sat in court…

Joan Namachemo, 34, was building the life she had always wanted after moving to Des Moines from Kenya. She and her husband, Mike Wasike, were raising a family, working several jobs and making enough to send money back home. They endured…

Joan Namachemo was awakened from her sleep this week by police knocking on her door. Namachemo’shusband, police told her Tuesday night, had been found lying in the street just one block from the couple’s Des Moines home. Michael Wasike, 36…