Sex offender and girlfriend arrested for stealing from Wal-Mart appear in court

MASON CITY – A Kossuth county sex offender who was arrested with his girlfriend for stealing from Wal-Mart appeared in court on the theft charge and was arrested again.

A North Iowa couple who have only been together a few weeks – Stephen Christopher Levandoski, age 31, and Donna Ciaffarafa, age 20 – where each charged with third degree theft, an aggravated misdemeanor, after police were called to the Mason City Wal-Mart of September 21. They were detained by employees who they say had attempted to steal over $500 in merchandise.

Ciaffarafa pled not guilty to the theft charge on October 10 and awaits an unknown court date.

Meanwhile, the man she was with, Levandoski, awaits an arraignment on his theft charge on October 20. In addition, he was arrested on October 1 for violating the state’s sex offender registry and awaits a court date. Levandoski committed his sex offense in Illinois in 2006 against a female child victim.

In August, Ciaffarafa, who has a young daughter, announced via social media her new relationship with Levandoski, saying “he is amazing”. Just a few weeks prior to that proclamation, she lamented “If I broke guys heart as much as they have broke mine they would be dead so to y’all who have broke my heart and y’all know who u r watch.the **ck out. remember revenge is best served cold and its getting chilly up in here. (sic)”

“Finally I know I found a man that will treat me and my daughter with kindness and respect.”