Members of the Mason City Police Department responded to a complaint of subjects in East Park after hours at 11:50pm Tuesday night.
Officers located two 15-year-old Mason City teens, a 17-year-old Nora Springs teen, and 19-year-old Stephen Gregory Van Auken of Mason City. Officers also located vandalism that had been done to a pop machine.
All four were arrested and the adult of the group, Stephen Gregory, was transported to Cerro Gordo County Jail and booked in on one simple misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct and violation of Mason City Code 5-2-2N (park closing time violation).
According to the police incident report charges of criminal mischief are pending in relation to the vandalism of the pop machine.
SUBJECT IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
He probably should have been arrested by the fashion police first
i would ride through east park and was so glad to see more and more of our young kids finally hanging out there again and from what i could see they weren’t causing prblms but then u have to have a group of stupid disresectful young ppl go and do some stupid shit like this .. dnt they have anything better to do with thier lives and y couldnt their parents raised them not to destroy property that didnt belong to them .. this is a shame and so tired of ppl ruining a good positive thing for the other young ppl of our community
I have to agree with everyone on this one…vandalism is a costly thing for all of us…but in saying that I am also looking at this as another opportunity for the city in “job creation”! Here is a “knuckle dragger” damaging a pop machine…maybe this machine might have to be sent out of town to be repaired. If the city can convince the local “soda-pop” people to hire a local unemployed person…send him to school to be trained in “soda-pop” machine repair…bring him back here and put him on the payroll…possibly buying a home and now paying taxes, then I see this as a win-win in the destruction of this “pop machine! Afterall isn’t this what our city and its “leaders” are all about…jobs at any cost…just thinking about Vi-Cor and its “stench”!
RIGHT! Cause there’s so many pop machines in need of repair in town. Well, by your logic we could just have some kids wreck a few more so the new hire will have more to fix. Low IQ would dictate that as a win-win.
Bar them from the parks for life and make them pay for any damage they did on top of heavy fines. Thank you to the people who called it in and thank you to the police for catching them.
Looks can be decieving, but not in this case.
Drop all charges if he agrees to be neutered!
Stop the gene pool now
I forgot to say Thank you to the person who reported this to the poilce. Most people wouldn’t think twice about it. We need more people that are willing to make that call, not only in the parks, but the entire city. It could make this town a better place to live.
Absolutely agree with you a 100%!!!!! Don’t hesitate and call!
not to hard to figure out who the Nora Springs kid is! Hes in trouble all the time
Bar them all from the park for a year. At 11:50 at night it’s hard to see what other vandalism they probably did. We have some nice parks in this town, when people like this take it upon themselves to destroy it, it effects us all, because we have to pay for their stupidity. I’m glad they were cought, now make an example of them.
Thank you to the police department. This will help keep the parks in good shape.