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Charges dropped on BeJe escapee; will return to facility

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MASON CITY – Charges have been dismissed against a Mason City man after he was absent from BeJe Clark’s residential facility and was captured in the same day.

39-year-old Jamie Alan Roggeman of Mason City was arrested Wednesday, January 25th and charged with voluntary absence for escaping BeJe Clark. Court records show on Thursday, February 23rd, District Associate Judge Gregg Rosenbladt dismissed the charge of voluntary escape and directed Roggerman to pay $181 in attorney fees to the public defender’s office.

Roggeman had been sentenced to Beje Clark’s residential treatment program after violating probation in an aggravated misdemeanor case of public intoxication 3rd or subsequent offense. Court records show he has been convicted of public intoxication offenses 17 times since 1995.

Roggeman’s 17th charge stemmed from an incident in 2011 in which an intoxicated Roggeman reported a dead body floating in the Winnebago River in East Park in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 26th. Upon investigating, police and firemen did not discover a body, but only a scattering of cans and a basketball floating in the dam with an intoxicated Roggeman still on the scene.

The Iowa Department of Correctional Services entered a probation violation report on the case a week after Roggerman’s absence from Beje Clark. On Thursday, February 23rd, District Associate Judge Gregg Rosenbladt sentenced Roggerman to 270 days with credit for time served in the Cerro Gordo County Jail on the 2nd probation violation.

The Cerro Gordo County Inmate population report shows Roggerman will be eligible to return to Beje Clark on May 16th.

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