MASON CITY – Mason City police responded to an on-going feud situation at the 900 block of North Federal Avenue Sunday.
Mason City Police Sgt. Greg Scott said Monday morning that police responded to a verbal disturbance at 4:00 PM at 914 N. Federal.
“It involved several subjects, 6-7 males in late teens, no weapons seen. We had 5 officers and a Supervisor on the scene,” Sgt. Scott said.
“They dispersed. Half went one way, half went the other way. It was people not getting along.”
Sgt. Scott said later at 6:38 PM police responded to a call about harassment in the same area but “it may not have been related.”
Sources, however, told NIT that Mason City Police officers had been at 909 and 914 North Federal six times because of the fighting, not necessarily all on Sunday. A source that was at the location said, “The police officers said if they had to come back one more time, they’d take everybody in.”
Police officers were sitting down the block Sunday evening, watching.
Sources told NIT that the feud started the day before over two dogs. Dogs from each house “were sniffing each other,” said the source. It was said that the situation escalated from there and became more serious.
“There were three boys (hanging out at) the 909 residence that attacked a pregnant woman at Casey’s on Saturday,” NIT was told. A male teen punched a woman in the mouth and another male teen “bought a squirt gun at Casey’s and threatened and aimed the gun at (the woman) and said, “I’m going to shoot you, you f****** b****.” Her name and address won’t be published.
The source also informed, “There haven’t been any arrests, pending viewing of the Casey’s video tape.”
Witnesses said the male teens on Sunday were calling the woman extremely derogatory names in front of police.
No arrests were made, as Sgt. Scott said “no one would come forward with anything, there was no victim.”
Another man who lives just a few doors away said that the two groups of teens and other adults “were having a yelling match across the highway.”
He said “it took more than an hour for every one of (the police officers) to leave.
“We had issues with (some of the people involved Sunday) on both Friday and Saturday nights which escalated into them bringing an adult male into the mix that stood in Casey’s doorway and yelled at me 3 or 4 times, “Shut up, b****!”
The man went on to say that he and his group dealt with the situation in their own way.
“Saturday, I ended up with an impromptu party on my porch that consisted of 12 friends, a keg, and various firearms. A very nice tactical 12 gauge was being passed around for everyone to check out. Amazingly enough, all of the hoodrats left the immediate area and never returned to Casey’s before they close.”
David, I would be very interested in this approach to getting problems off the streets.
I do know Todd, he as far as I know don’t blog here, if he did he would not of used a diffrent name he would call himself his own self.
Who are you calling Todd, I am old enough to be his mother. Ha.
uh huh,ok
Sorry, wow, but I’m not Todd. Hate to disappoint you. And you insult me with your comment.
Oh please, I think blodgett needs to stop posting comments about himself!
Your right somebody needs step up to the plate before the dboyz takes over. Blodgett he don’t take no shit off nobody, I seen him shoot the back tires of a pickup maybe 5 years ago, scared the f/////g hell out of a driver he got pissed off at.
I shall be infinitely, splendidly unable to fathom the thought processes of you crazy racists, and your enthusiastic promotion of the brand of life-threatening violence for which the fascistic Todd Blodgett is known to perpetrate against society’s less fortunate members. If indeed there is a god, you’re all destined for it. I shall now scream.
I second that notion of MC cops give Blodgett a free hand run the d-boys clean out of town. My wife seen a article says TB knows some real rough Nazi’s, they may be can help but probaly have to pay them ok it still worth it, I am thinking.
“I second that notion of MC cops give Blodgett a free hand run the d-boys clean out of town. My wife seen a article says TB knows…..” [sic]
Do you not see the inherent legal problems with such an idea? Would you like to bankroll the operation, along with the civil suits that follow?
Right Susy we got to get some body do something about them scum hell yes.My nephew seen Todd Blodget walk a carny back into a bar in CL with a gun on the carnys back, he can get it done yes.
I am sorry, mean to say what not hat, although I do have some pretty hats. Ha.
hat the blog people who gave opinions on Mr Peter Children’s column had to say is good. It really is time for MC PD to sub contract Mr Todd Blodgett to help get rid of these people. Vote him a exemption or whatever you call it, he knows how to deal with these low lifes, we must wipe them out real soon.
I’m sorry, I do not live in or near Mason City and am not familiar with who Todd Blodgett is. Is he in law enforcement? Or politics? Or some other profession? Will someone please enlighten me?
Anit nuttin u do about it!! makin babies and smokn dope … getn free food getn free house … that’s wut its all about baby … Threatn my well being .. well … “bang bang” …
and ya wonder why folks treat ya’ all that way … All it’s about attitude Dipchit. If you present a crappy attitude, what do ya think your going to get in return. There’s place for people like you … in hell .. “BOOM” back at ya 😉
Live it up now because some of us white folk are gunna run your kind out!
Oops, the editor at NIT “fu”ed again.
Police respond to nasty “fued” on North Federal Sunday.
these three little punks did something to my friends and they will get their. you don’t put a gun of any kind to someone’s head and say, “bang, bang, you’re dead. ( with a few more words I wont put) they step over the line. The really sad thing is the police took their side. These punks even attacked her. They will get it. They jumped her, now they will get it soon. Its BS that our police dept must be scared…
I was born and raised in Mason City, lived there for 24 years befor moving out of state. My family and I visited family and friends this summer, after being away for about 3 years. I will have to say that Mason City has went far off of the map with all the violence that is happening in such a small city that I once loved and was proud to be a part of. When there this summer I was afraid to let my wife and children out of site hearing all of the crap that is going on in Mason. Before coming this summer we talked about moving back at times to be closer to family and friends, but with all the stuff that goes on there we feel much safer and don’t plan on coming back to live. Mason City as a City is falling apart and the City needs to do something about it, because people don’t want to go some place that they feel is not safe.
Mind telling us where you live now?
I only ask because by most national crime data, Mason City is not considered a violent city. I find it strange that someone would be so fearful of this town that they wouldn’t let their wife out of sight.
I should add–
No doubt crime has increased in Mason, but the town in general seems to be falling apart economically.
Good chunks are starting to resemble small town appalachia.
Oh, you are so right. This town is hurting economically. And our ciy council is a mess. It’s sad that they along with the city administrator doesn’t seem to care that there’s no good paying jobs, or very little of them for the blue collar person. There’s communities around us that are improving, so why not us? Our city leaders is the reason. They wasted months on the garbage issue, they spent useless time and money remodeling city hall, and wasted money are statues that give no value to the city at all.
We need some major changes in city hall.
Whats the problem these are probably just more of GMA Jeans misunderstood grandchildren!
news flash you lames arent cool or tough.
stop watching youtube videos and go read a book stupid kids here i swear. one of you get your head blown off and its stop the violence bs instead of just being normal and stop acting like you live in a rap video go do something with your miserable life.
your father (if you know him) should be ashamed.
there “fathers”: are the ones teaching them this crap. there all sorry excuses for humans
I think we need to consider what will happen if these teenagers don’t ever get in trouble for their behavior…something much worse than yelling across a street. Also, if one of the teenagers assaulted a pregnant woman….why is he/she still not in trouble?? MC kids are getting away with WAY too much and that is why they continue with this behavior because they have no consequences to fear! They learn this from their parents who are in and out of jail without ever having long lasting consequences for their behavior. These kids will continue to be defiant and disrespectful as long as they get away with it. What happened to putting pressure on kids to behave…MC kids think the police in town are a joke, especially when they see the school resource officer sitting as his desk all day long. It’s only a matter of time until something major happens…and then what?? We as adults have a responsibility to teach teenagers right from wrong…so the police need to start doing that…even if it is just a conversation about consequences that could occur if the behavior continues and getting the parents involved.
It’s these people who are a drain on society. Yet, much like the Middle East, we think we can reform them and take a person who has been born into a situation, where Mom’s in jail, Dad (well we don’t know where he is, probably with some other chunky white girl, grandma… heck she’s probably served her time too and has a shotgun in her back porch.
It seems cruel to just give up, but our court system doesn’t seem to be fixing them, moving them away from their hood doesn’t seem to fix them. Yet, mama’s been on food stamps all her life, blaming the system, blaming misfortune, blaming the fact that she got knocked up six different times by six different guys and none of them hung around. So, it’s a proven fact that her six children are statistically prone to do the exact same thing.
Drain the system, drain taxpayers money, drain foodstamps, drain unemployment, drain heating assistance drain SSI, SSDI,etc. fight in our neighborhood, raise the crime rate, lower the value of your property by their property being in a shambles, stealing and raising the cost of what we buy. Yet every time I go to the grocery store, with a very limited budget, these people are in front of me at Fareway buying the 60 lb meat packages. They are in front of me at the checkout, and they get out their green food stamp card, buy their 2 baskets full of steaks, chips, pop, etc. I pay for my bologna sandwiches and then see them loading their 12 bags of groceries into a brand new Escalade with new dealer tags still on it. Something is definitely wrong with our system!
Excellent post. I think you nailed it. They don’t want to change and why should they when they get everything for free with no work involved. Even if they go to jail they are treated better than we ar on the outside and they know they will be out shortly and back on the system. They have no respect for themselves and none for anyone else.
And it will never change. Take away all their free assistance and force them to work, anywhere, and they will pack up and leave. ConcernedCitizen hit it right on the head.
The police set down the road and watch??? These are juveniles? ? Time for the police to stop being scared of these shits!! The police need to step up and let them know their are rules to society. They should have ended this right away and halled all these juveniles to jail for their parents to pick up or halled their asses home laid out the expectation and told the parents the next time DHS will be called. Might not work right away but the police need to step it up…they need to protect and serve ..their job is not to JUST arrest….seems like they don’t want to do the full scope of what an officers job really entails …if not its time for them to get another job!!!
The police can’t do anything? ??? I call bullshoot…if anything they can hall their little butts to the jail, call their parents to come get them and read them the riot act. Make the parents take responsibility for these little rats even if they don’t want to EVERYTIME!!! Sooner or later the parents will be sick of it cutting into their time snd just maybe start laying into these rats. Children??? These are not normal kids getting into mischief these are children with huge social issues. The police can even report them and their parents to DHS! Instead if saying oh well we can’t do anything!!!! Bullcrap!!!!
This might be one of the cases where they need to get the landlord involed. If there renting them houses the city might be able to step in and force the landlord to kick them out. They were just talking about this a few months ago.
Mitch Tabor is NOT NIM1, I am NIM1…
I am the Batman.
Except no imposters!
I heard chad murphy is NIM
Amazing that these so called neighbors have all these problems. But aren’t making the situation any better calling CHILDREN racist names… And then they sit outside with firearms to scare them…. If you are the neighbors and have SUCH a problem with these CHILDREN… Shouldn’t you be on the telephone with the police department??/ Or maybe try and having a talk with the parents?? Or better yet pretty sure the homeowners/apartment owners names are listed on the Cerro Gordo County website… Call the LANDLORD… Good role models condoning the same behavior you’re complaining about….
Do you LIVE in the neighborhood in question? Do you have to deal with these “children” every day that are constantly harassing everyone they encounter? Do you see them running the neighborhood with their mob mentality? Are you on the receiving end of THEIR racial slurs and constant profanities? Are you being told that they are going to “kill you, you f*cking b*tch!”? Do you even KNOW their parents? Some of us do and we know they type of person that they are. One of the mothers just recently spent a few days in the graybar motel for assault. What a spectacular role model. Talking to the parents isn’t going to help, unless you getting your rear pounded for not minding your own business. You have to understand the mindset they have and THEN you can make some assumptions about how to act in this neighborhood. You obviously do NOT live around these ‘children’.
Actually I do know some of there parents… Hard to believe grown adults are scared of 14 year olds. So skip the talking to the parents if your SCARED. There are other people to call like I stated before.. And 90% of them kids don’t even live over there.. So maybe if u talked to someone like the police and/or the landlords they wouldn’t be allowed over there.. Problem solved… And no im not on the receiving end of either problems just seems as if that’s the way to resolve it…. Disrespecting children?? Probably not going to work our so well either way it goes.. Constantly complaining about IR… FO SOMETHING ABOUT IT…
Those children should be respectful of the other people in the neighborhood. Instead, they (if the don’t live in the area) they come over here and cause a bunch of problems. They attack pregnant women, make threats against her life, have screaming matches back and forth across the highway, steal stuff from Casey’s (this comes from the mouths of Casey’s employees), break glass in the alleys, start fights with anyone that just happens to be around, make shooting gestures with their hands like they think they are gang bangers, etc. You think these kids DESERVE any respect from anyone in the neighborhood when they can’t even show a single ounce of respect for anyone else? That’s not how things work. I’m not going to show you respect if you come to my yard and vandalize my property. I’m not going to show you any respect if you stand on the side of the road and yell racial slurs at me.
Funny thing is, most of these gangbanger wannabes in their little faux Detroit hood in 2 blocks of northside Mason City, wouldn’t last an hour in a real ghetto where the consequences of acting a fool are really deadly.
The use of racially charged words, does nothing to solve the situation. This means you are part of the problem.
Get your brains out of the region where you sit.
I didn’t see any racially charged comments.
What a bunch of uneducated, worthless,lazy,loser,unemployed pieces of sh*t.Who owns the property bulldoze the house down or evict them take their free food card away and run the dirt out of town.You can tell those boys didn’t have a real father or they wouldn’t act so direspectful.Trash day is every monday in that area
Put yourself in a bag and set yourself out on curb to be picked up.
Are u oblivious to the fact they are KIDS???
OK then where are the disfuctional parents to teach these so called kids how to act.You know the parents,Birds of a feather flock together.15 years from now these parents will have grandkids that act like this.Pull your head out of your @ss before you suffacate yourself you amusing idiot.
when did it become legal to post pictures of underage children without their and/or their parents consent. don’t assume you know the whole story. i thought it was innocent till proven guilty. isn’t this the 21st century? if it was 5 white kids would there be a big article including pictures…..? just sayin’
One may post a photo of anyone they wish on-line or even in a news venue. It has been happening for years in the Chicago Tribune and BBC.
You’re just pissed off because it’s pictures of YOUR kids out there causing problems. Maybe you should be a better parent and teach them to be respectful instead of being a public nuisance.
LMFAO thats a good one but prob true, too bad nobody else wants the wht chick LOL
Really? You’re gonna slap the race card down? There were white kids in those pictures. At least in the ones I looked at. Does your monitor not work properly?
I live right in yhr middle of the two houses always feuding. I’m sick of the shit. Their always loud at all hrs of the night. Have some respect ur grown.
Spell check…
Just more ghetto trash locating here for the drug trade.
It’s too bad the always present “source” won’t take all this information to the police so something can actually be done.
Some of the ‘sources’ HAVE taken all the information they have to the police. They HAVE called the police, repeatedly, to report problems and things that shouldn’t be happening. Unfortunately, some of the laws that they police are attempting to enforce are also laws that tie their hands and make it next to impossible to do anything to the violators unless the police actually SEE them breaking the law. The laws are written in such a way that the criminals almost have more rights than the good people of the community. Honestly, I am sick of calling the police only to have them tell me there is nothing they can really do. They are just as frustrated. It’s going to take another shooting before something will happen again, unfortunately.
By all means feed the fire here. Show off more guns and so forth. You’re not dealing with someone who understands consequences of behavior or normal limits. You are dealing with people with excessive testosterone and no common sense.
It would be nothing to them to act out, from my experience, using like kinds of violence. They don’t care about authority figures, much less you.
And don’t expect a face to face confrontation, that will not happen. But the pattern has been, to send a message.
For years, that has been my observations from living in the gang infested areas and seeing the same thing happen. Showing off firepower like that brings about only one reaction.
More violence.
Lets give them all guns and ammo and then teach them how to shoot and they will take care of this for us. Then all we have to do is go in and clean up the mess afterward. Can you immagine how people feel that are walking or driving down North Federal.
A lot of people have taken to avoiding N Federal completely.
It’s always funny to see the typical white guy following the other blk guys because he is weak. Lmao
I’d say the typical white guy is in the back because he’s using the other blk guys for a shield, smart move, typical white guy.
shot’em all and we wouldn’t have this dam problem
I think these are great pictures and proof of intimidation! Good Job!! I think the cops should go back and arrest these punks!!
Clean Up The Streets MCPD! Why don,t these Punks go to L.A. Or Kansas City and make gestures like that!? You know what would happen to them and So Do They!!
So who owns 909 N. Federal?
I would be curious about that also. Isn’t the city starting to make landlords accountable for their tenants? Wouldn’t that apply here?
They are working on getting something together so that they can, but it hasn’t been completed and nothing has been approved by council yet. I think when I read about it, they were talking about in a couple of years. ??
It is owned by M&M investments whatever that means. Copy and paste the link.
http://www.co.cerro-gordo.ia.us/property_search/URLAction.cfm?Item=070330201000.
It looks like Community bank on the west side hold the deed to the property.
According to the secretary of state:
Robert L. Mason is listed as the agent and president of M&M.
Scott W. Moorman was listed as the “organizer” on the original articles of incorporation.
Perhaps M&M stand for Mason and Moorman?
There is a small group of us that is starting up a neighborhood patrol like the guardian angels of new york. We are working with the police dept and am waiting for the approval of the city administrator. One of the requirements for volunteers is to attend the citizens police academy which the first classes start this thursday. We need to get these people off the streets asap.
Hats off to you, David! 🙂
I’d like to attend.. when, where and
what time ?
Yes, please provide more information about this. I’m sure there are several of us that would be interested in attending.
There was a story here about the citizens police academy, that’s the start. The police feel it would be a good idea for anyone who volunteers should go through the program, it’s free and 1 day a week for 10 weeks. I will post when the city administrator approves it so we can start asking for people to volunteer.
Here is an idea MCPD, arrest these people and get them off the street. Farthermore, I am sure with the ammount of calls about these people you will find some warrents or otherwise on them to get them out of town,
Jus sayin
Ditto. Good post.
You kinda have to have a reason to arrest someone, and some jerkoff kids making hand gestures is not a reason to arrest someone. If we went around arresting everyone that we thought was a criminal this country would be one messed up place.
Very wise observation John.