MASON CITY – Mason City police responded to an alarm at Alliant Energy in the 600 block of 15th Street SE shortly after 4 AM today. As officers were checking the business, they found two men trespassing on the Iowa Traction Railroad tracks directly east of the compound.
During the course of the investigation, it was determined that the men has also trespassed at the Alliant property.
Jeremy Nicholas Mulford, 32, of Bradford, Iowa and Ozzy Robert Degroote, 25, of Maxwell, Iowa were both arrested and jailed on two counts of criminal trespass, a simple misdemeanor.
Ozzy Robert Degroote
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