A Cerro Gordo deputy assisted at least three Mason City police officers in locating three youngsters after a call to police was made. Another youth reported that three subjects “took money out of his hand”. According to law enforcement reports, the officers and the deputy responded to the area of 850 East State Street just after 7 PM Thursday evening, September 10. The three subjects were located and eventually, the money was returned to the victim.
Police said that the parents of the three subjects who took the money from he fourth youth were notified and the victim and his parents declined charges.
Police didn’t release the names of the youths.