MASON CITY – A convicted Mason City meth dealer was caught for the second time this year with illegal substances and is now behind bars.
A Mason City police officer observed a wanted subject on the evening of November 8, near 2nd Street NW and Penn Avenue and arrested him. The subject, 43-year-old Sammie Tremayne Watters, was also charged with felony possession of controlled substance. He was taken to the county jail.
Watters was caught with illegal substances back in January of this year, but cited by the sheriff’s office for the offenses in April. In June, he was given two, 10-year suspended prison sentences, suspended $1,000 fines, 5-years of probation and sent to a residential facility for 180 days.
Watters was convicted of felony delivery of meth back in March of 2015 after an earlier arrest by Mason City police. Watters entered a guilty plea to delivery of methamphetamine and the district court granted him a deferred judgment and placed him on probation for a period of three years. As special conditions of probation, Watters was required to abstain from all controlled substances, not associate with persons known to have a criminal record, actively seek and maintain full-time employment, and comply with a plan of restitution. The district court revoked his deferred judgment after at least two violations and sentenced Watters to a term of imprisonment not to exceed ten years, waiving the mandatory one-third minimum sentence. He appealed his sentence, but was unsuccessful; how he remained free since he lost his appeal in 2016 is unclear.
Watters awaits a court appearance set for November 17.
Who are any of you to judge a man you don t know . I think that not a single one of you are free from making bad choices, so who are you to run him down.
SAMMIE??? how much more racist can you get haha
better bave more then “a few acres” gunna take a lot more acreage then that
I kick myself daily for never having tried meth. It’s an action-packed video game inside your head.
No more plea bargains. Bye bye.
2 10 year sentences suspended, fines suspended, jeez the “Justice System ” taught him a lesson!
Common sense would seem if a person is busted for dealing poison it should be hard time, no pleas, no suspended sentence!
I don’t bet, BUT its a safe bet this POS will once again be roaming the streets selling that poison.
I’ve got a few acres, anyone wanna build a prison for all these deferred and suspended 3rd chance losers?
Great comment! I wish I had said that.