MASON CITY – A North Iowa man set free last year from a federal penitentiary and then caught drunk driving in Cerro Gordo county is serving two weeks in jail for his crime.
Brandon Snater, age 34, was stopped and arrested for drunk driving in Cerro Gordo county on September 22, 2014. He was charged with second offense operating while intoxicated.
Snater entered a guilty plea on February 10, 2015, to second offense operating while intoxicated. He was sentenced to two weeks in jail and ordered to pay $2,779.25 in fines and court fees. He is serving his sentence at this time.
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 currently serving a three-year term of supervised release now that his prison term is over.
