MASON CITY – Mason City police were called to the 000 block of South Delaware Ave. shortly before 2 AM Sunday morning on a report of a large crowd gathering outside a business after closing time.
A concerned citizen reported to officers that one of the men in the crowd was armed with a handgun. As officers approached 21-year-old Ryon Marquise Shelton, who claims to live at 631 South Adams, he tried to run on foot from them.
Police took down Shelton and found the alleged handgun, cocaine packaged consistent for street sale, and marijuana following the chase.
After nearly three hours in police custody, Shelton was booked into the Cerro Gordo County Jail on one Class C felony count of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver, one aggravated misdemeanor count of carrying a dangerous weapon, one serious misdemeanor count of possession of marijuana, and one simple misdemeanor count of interference with official acts.
Law enforcement has confirmed Shelton was not licensed to legally carry the firearm on his person.
Court records show Ryon Shelton was held by court order from March 2011 to April 2011 on $25,000 bond as a material witness in a Cedar Rapids murder case in which a man was killed in a robbery following a botched drug deal. Read more about that case here.
Many online archives report Ryon Shelton attempted to pull a BB gun on two undercover Cedar Rapids police officers on Halloween 2006 when he was still a juvenile. Most accounts say the officers followed protocol and pulled their service firearms in return causing Shelton to drop his toy gun and attempt to again flee law enforcement on foot. When he was captured Shelton told officers he was “just playing around” and trying to scare people. “He was cited for assault while displaying a dangerous weapon and released to relatives, police said.”
Ryon Shelton remains in the Cerro Gordo County Jail on $10,000 cash only bond late Sunday evening.
SUBJECT IS INNOCENT UNTL PROVEN GUILTY
Get rid of the riff-raff in Mason City!
I don’t see why they posted the attachment about the other story because it didn’t mention one thing about Ryon.
I have been debating for awhile now about moving from Mason City to Waterloo. My only argument to my husband is that Mason City is a family town and it is a good place to raise the kids. Schools are better, but I am beginning to think my argument is weak. Waterloo or Algona have the jobs and have a better handle on crime. Mason City is not severe enough on these people that is why they flock to our city. They think they can fly under the radar or something, I don’t get it. If he is a successful drug dealer than 10,000$ cash bond will be easy for him to get from his dirt scumbag friends/family members and then he will be gone maybe or maybe not. Look at all the outstanding warrants Mason City has, why are these people not caught? I am so sad for this town because our city council is so caught up in making downtown beautiful and preserving our history that the north end fills up with scum like this. Pretty soon we will have a fully restored downtown, but there will be no decent hard-working people left to inhabit it. Mason City will become a slum town/ghost town.
Recently moving out of and away from Mason City was the best thing my family and I did in the past 20 years. We found it a dirty, unfriendly and scary place after several years there. It felt as though it has death as it’s future.
I’ve heard a lot of BAD things that have happened at this bar lately.Some of it about the patrons and some about the owners.
Make them join the military and they might end of with values, displine and a sense of purpose.
Sorry I don’t agree. What you’ll end up with is a less professional Military with moral problems. We tried something akin to this with the draft in the Vietnam War.
Let’s make Mason City so unfriendly to these criminals they split and go back to whatever rock they crawled out from under. Throw the book at him! Let him serve some time. Better yet, shoot them when they run…soon MC will get the reputation of being unfriendly to these pond scum and they will quit showing up in our community!
Hell yeah!
This is scaring me but I think I agree with it too. If our police officers are willing to put their lives on the line, then the criminals had better know THEIR lives are on the line, also. Doesn’t it just make sense?!?
Well there are enough upstanding, law abiding citizens in this town with permits to carry. I’m for it.
I’m loosing a few loved ones to drugs with the help of this trash dealers. These dealers dont care who they hurt. What if the tables were turned and someone sold drugs to one of their family members or son/daughter/sister and they OD’d on that drug, then what? They wouldn’t stand for it! I dont do drugs and never have. I dont know the ins and outs or anything about drugs but my message to you dealers: I WANT MY FAMILY BACK and I will see to it and do whatever I can to put your trash selves where you belong! I wont stop and I’m watching!
I hear you. People seem to have forgotten what drugs do to people including those that are innocent. I hope that the people of North Iowa NEVER forget Lori, Kandi, or Amber Duncan, who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I know that if one of these scum bags, puke sucking, low lives ever touches someone in my family, God won’t even be there to help them.
It seems some people of North Iowa dont care if there’s another Duncan tragedy. I’m not sure law enforcement really cares,they cant respond to a phone call. I’m afraid something bad is going to happen considering the people they hang around. I tried helping my family member but it seems they dont care. I wonder if they will care if I end up like the Duncans and all because I cared enough and tried to help them.
I really hope that it does not come down to anything like that again. However I am afraid that many people in this town are scared out of their minds around these people and would rather sit by idly until something happens to their family members. I am with you Blue Eye and will continue to call these bastards in every time I see something. I wish that more people would do the same. Hang in there hopefully things will turn around.
I wonder why North Iowa Today doesn’t mention the name of the business? Is it because they are an advertiser?
It was at Elven.
Funny how it is Elevens bouncers who called police and pointed out the gunman. If it was Alley Katz nobody saw or say nothing ya heard.
Well, that was another potential murderer taken off the streets. We can only hope that the justice system keeps him locked up for a while. But, knowing the way things work around here, he’ll be back on the streets by the end of the week… pushing his drugs and being a threat to society.
It’s your tax money (fed., state, & local) that brought this sh*t to Mason City and other area communities. Hud, for example, loves to pay for this sh*t. Now it’s your tax money being spent to pay for your added protection from these scum bags, shove this puke through the courts – and it is repeating. Make sure it don’t continue – vote the clowns out of office (fed., state and local).
Gotta smile tho, gonna be on NIM 😛
anybody want to bet me $5 this guy will not serve any real jail time.
WTF is a “cultural crescent?” Is this like the Fertile Crescent of the Tigris and Euphrates region of Mesopotamia? Is this Mason City’s international trade district? Or is it more a hub for culture and fine arts?
Oh my god, I’m laughing so hard I’m crying!
Shot the next one that runs and the rest might stay put next time.
First you shoot him, then he’s shot.
(friction in your diction)?
What a f-n joke…the interfering with official acts charge has already been discharged. So basically we are setting the precidence that it is ok to run from the police…had they not caught him he would obviously still be on the streets. So, don’t worry about being charged with fleeing…you got a 50/50 chance to make it and that charge won’t stick if you do get caught so why not give it a try?! The judicial system here sucks.
When a charge shows up as “discharged” I don’t think that’s the same as the charges being “dismissed”. I could be wrong, but I think that discharged just means that the person is going to be released from jail with charges pending (either because they bonded out or are being released on recognizance). Because the rest of his charges still show “pending”, he won’t actually be released until he’s made bond on all of them. Personally though, I don’t think we set bonds nearly high enough on people that run/will probably run again..
I don’t know either. I would love to ask “where’s your smug smile now puke”? Don’t they almost always have a smile on their face for their mugshot? What a worthless POS.
Good work, MCPD! We’re counting on you to continue to do more of this! We need to take back our city!
One down, many many more of these dirtbags to go. Let’s just hope that the court system puts him where he belongs! How about using him to set the example? Give him the max!
Is “cultural crescent” another name for black ghetto?