MASON CITY – A Mason City man who stabbed another person at a carnival in Clear Lake last summer pled guilty to felony willful injury and will have to live at Beje Clark halfway house for 6 months.
Landon Martin, age 23 of Mason City, pled guilty on May 12th to willful injury causing bodily injury. Martin was sentenced to five years in prison (suspended), placed on five years of probation, and must reside at for 180 days at Beje Clark halfway house. A $750 fine was suspended, but he was assessed $916.96 in costs.
According to Clear Lake police, on July 6, 2013 an altercation arose between two groups of young men that were attending the carnival in Clear Lake. According to witnesses, two of the individuals – identified as 21-year-old Cody Kramer of Northwood and 21-year-old Hunter Olsen of Mason City – began to fight. At some point during the fight, 22-year-old Landon Martin of Mason City allegedly stepped into the altercation and stabbed Kramer in the cheek. According to witnesses, Martin then threatened the rest of the people in Kramer’s group before he, Olsen and an unidentified female fled the scene. Kramer later sought medical attention for the wound at the Mercy Medical Center Emergency Room where he received eight stitches.
WILL RESIDE AT BEJE
[poll random]
Does this mean his meth chargers, assault on a cop charge, and other charges will not send him to prison just because he got sentenced to BeJe (what a joke) for the stabbing?