MASON CITY – An afternoon bender and a snooze on a Cultural Crescent park bench landed one man in jail, even as cops searched for another possibly intoxicated subject who was said to be making “obscene gestures” in the immediate area.
Records show that Mason City police were called a number of times on the early afternoon Tuesday to the Central Park area, in the heart of the Cultural Crescent, for allegedly intoxicated individuals.
The trouble began at about 1 PM when police were called to investigate an allegedly drunk individual who was making obscene gestures. The subject was reported to have just left a transit bus and was near Central Park. Police could not locate the man in question.
About an hour later, police were called back to the same area after a report of an allegedly drunk individual who was said to be lying on a bench in Central Park.
Officers arrived and arrested 50-year-old Jeffery Eliason of Mason City for public intoxication. Police told NIT that a witness said Eliason “may have been with another male that had departed from a transit bus at the Central Park stop. One of the men supposedly made some obscene gestures.”
Eliason was still in jail Wednesday afternoon, held on $300.00 cash or surety bond.
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