RURAL MASON CITY – Police received a report of a suspicious vehicle and once located, the driver refused to stop, leading to the arrest of a man who served months of jail time this year.
Mason City police and Cerro Gordo deputies responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle Thursday morning, November 24, around 5:22 AM. It appears that deputies were first involved in rural Cerro Gordo county near Rockwell, and the driver refused to stop and headed toward Mason City. Eventually, the driver, 27-year-old Jared Joseph Hill of Sheffield was stopped and arrested on Thrush Avenue just outside city limits.
Hill was taken to the county jail on charges of eluding, speeding, failure to obey a traffic control device, interference with official acts and possession of drug paraphernalia. He remains held there on $5,000 bond as he awaits a December 2 court date.
Records show Hill was charged with felony theft this year in Winneshiek county but took a plea deal which landed him in jail for 90 days on on probation for a year; a violation could result in more jail time, as 275 days of his sentence were suspended. Hill was also caught stealing in 2014 in Black Hawk county and put on probation for two years, which he then violated this year. That resulted in a concurrent 90 day jail sentence.
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