MASON CITY – A Mason City sex offender is awaiting an arraignment after an assault in the Cerro Gordo County Jail.
Darrell Wayne Ballard, age 24, allegedly assaulted another inmate at the jail on September 28. He was charged with one count of serious assault and awaits an arraignment hearing on October 13.
Ballard had been arrested on July 29 at the Beje Clark halfway house on an arrest warrant connected to his two convictions for indecent exposure in Cerro Gordo county in 2009 and 2010. Ballard had exposed himself to two females over the age of 18. He had been paroled back in July of 2012 after serving less than 2 years in an Iowa prison.
Ballard is currently jailed and awaiting bed space back at Beje.
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