MASON CITY – A North Iowa man set free this year from a federal penitentiary was caught drunk driving early Monday morning.
Brandon Snater, age 33, was stopped and arrested for drunk driving in Cerro Gordo county early Monday morning and jailed. He is now being held on bond.
Snater was sent to federal prison in 2011, after being convicted for possessing ammunition as a domestic abuser. He was sentenced to 46 months in prison with time served and was released in 2014. According to social media, he now works in Forest City.
Snater received the prison term after a September 16, 2010, guilty plea to being a domestic violence misdemeanant in possession of ammunition.
Snater was convicted of the misdemeanor crime of Domestic Assault – 2nd Offense in Cerro Gordo County on February 26, 2010. On April 3, 2010, it was reported he went to the home of the woman he had previously assaulted and fired three shots in front of her house. A search of Snater’s residence that day did not turn up a gun, but 18 rounds of ammunition were found.
Under federal law, it is illegal for someone who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence to possess a firearm or ammunition. Iowa enacted a similar law effective July 1, 2010.
Snater is now serving a three-year term of supervised release now that his prison term is over.
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