MASON CITY – A convicted Mason City domestic abuser is behind bars awaiting a hearing and a potential trip to prison.
Jesse Mugan, age 26, committed at least his second domestic abuse crime back in June of 2014. Mason City police charged Mugan with felony domestic assault involving strangulation, felony second offense domestic assault, felony false imprisonment and simple misdemeanor obstruction of emergency communications after an incident on June 28. Mugan later pleaded guilty to felony domestic assault and was given 5 years of probation, a suspended 5-year prison sentence and a suspended fine. The charge of felony second offense domestic assault was dismissed, and he pleaded guilty to false imprisonment.
Soon thereafter, in December of 2014, Mugan was found guilty of violating his probation and sent to Beje Clark halfway house for 6 months.
Mugan is now accused a second time of violating his probation after Cerro Gordo county prosecutors brought a violation forward. He is now being held in the county jail on $5,000 bond as he awaits a July 25 hearing. A judge could impose the suspended prison sentence at that time.
