MASON CITY – Police were called to the Gracious Estates trailer park on a report of an assault and a man was taken to jail.
Mason City police officers were dispatched for a physical domestic assault to 777 South Eisenhower Avenue lot 316 at about 8:37 PM Saturday, January 2. Officers investigated and one subject was placed under arrested and taken to the Cerro Gordo County Jail.
Brandon Lee Skinner, age 42, was charged with felony domestic abuse assault involving strangulation. He’s being held on the jail on and as he awaits a court date.
Skinner has been accused and pled guilty to domestic abuse at least twice in recent years. He was arrested again in 2015 for domestic abuse but the charge was dismissed.