1435: Brandon Westmoreland

Brandon Thomas Westmoreland ran for the office of Mayor of Davenport, Iowa, in 2023. He lost in the primary.

In August, 2024, he was charged with burglary and assault after he broke into someone’s home and beat them up, striking them in the head six times. The arrest affidavit noted the victim had extensive injuries to the head and face. He pleaded guilty to the burglary in May, 2025, and the assault charge was dismissed. He got a ten-year suspended sentence and two years probation. No jail time.

In early July, 2025, he was arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a woman who was severely intoxicated and could not give consent. According to the police report, the woman was unconscious at the time of the assault and is uncertain if she was extremely intoxicated or drugged. She woke up feeling like she had been sexually assaulted. She went to the hospital. She had visible injuries. They ran a rape kit and DNA identified Westmoreland. Two witnesses also place Westmoreland at her home at the time of the assault.