MASON CITY – A Mason City man says he’s not guilty of crimes police say he committed at a local hotel.
Mason City police were called to the American Best Inn & Suites on the evening of Tuesday, August 11 after a report of a burglary. After an investigation, officers arrested a male suspect who was staying in a room on the second level, 50-year-old James Tyrone Woods. A room on the first level at the hotel had allegedly been burglarized.
Woods was charged with felony second degree burglary, assault while participating in a felony, 1st degree harassment and public intoxication and jailed.
Woods entered a not guilty plea Tuesday and awaits a jury trial on October 27 on all charges except public intoxication. That trial is set for February of next year.
