MASON CITY – A Mason City man known about town for his violent outbursts was nabbed by police this weekend for more malfeasance.
According to police, Bryon Sletten, age 47, located by Mason City police on October 19th at 12:45 AM. Police were investigating a report of subjects using drugs behind a lounge at the 200 block of North Federal Avenue. Sletten was found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia, cited, and released. Two witnesses told NIT that Sletten was “stabbed with a screwdriver” in an altercation that night.
Sletton is awaiting a Jury trial which begins on November 5th on a serious misdemeanor charge of domestic assault which allegedly involved the impeding of air/blood against the victim. Only in domestic assault cases where the victim suffers “bodily injury” can felony D charges be brought.
Sources told NIT that Sletton’s victim suffered “swelling in neck muscle, bruising various places on body (shoulder, elbow, knees, forearms), muscle tear of previous surgical incision in chest.” The source also said that when the victim called her regular physician, “they directed (her) to the ER.”
Sletton was arrested at about the same time late last year on another violent exchange after a fight in downtown Mason City. Police said that they had witnessed Sletten engaged in an altercation on December 1st, 2012 with a man named John Smith at the 200 block of North Federal Avenue in an alley. Sletten was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
Sletton is a convicted felon who has served time in Iowa penitentiaries. He owes the courts thousands of dollars in unpaid fines, fees and restitution. His record includes convictions due to harassment, assault, operating while intoxicated, driving while barred, theft, probation violations and more.