MASON CITY – Cops located and chased a wanted man in Mason City and once caught, found a large quantity of suspected meth and a loaded .25 caliber handgun.
On December 12, 2019, at about 2:49am, a Cerro Gordo County Sheriffs Deputy located Marcus Houston Jones in the 1400 block of North Rhode Island in Mason City. Jones was wanted on warrants for carrying weapons, possession of a firearm as a felon, and interference with official acts from a traffic stop by the same Deputy on December 6, 2019. When the Deputy approached Jones, who was driving a 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe, Jones again fled on foot. Jones was apprehended a short time later hiding inside of a garage. A search warrant for Jones’ vehicle resulted in located a large quantity of suspected methamphetamine and a loaded .25 caliber handgun. Jones was transported to the Cerro Gordo County jail and served his warrants from the December 6 incident and charged with the following new violations: possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, fail to affix a drug tax stamp, possession of a firearm as a felon, carrying weapons, and interference with official acts. Jones is being held for no bond in the Cerro Gordo County jail. Deputies were assisted at the scene by Mason City Police and Iowa State Patrol.
The Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by Mason City Police and the Iowa State Patrol.
A lot of ignorant comments Mason City been shitty. Far as the market look at yourself section 8 being black nome of that matters its all about the Green dollar bill most of y’all talking negative mad because this person tried dealing the same thing Mason City has had to offer. A town community that has nothing to offer besides liquor and all the other recreational drugs you can think of as well as most y’all get high with your own children. I blame you not the outta town people. Facts is people come and they get in where they fit in. My opinion I blame Mason City for watching to much son’s of Anarchy wait they had meth labs before then
No schooling for you I’d bet, especially English class.
In the name of diversity, I painted my computer black one night. Next day, it didn’t work anymore and my printer was gone!!?
You must be one of this cockroaches!
Start shooting this cockroaches and they will think twice about coming here!
You probably get high with your kids too. Shoot yourself 1st
Nope! My kids are grown adults! COCKROACH! SHOOT THEM ALL!
Sociopath. Guaranteed.
Seems to me that the best way to get rid of them is to take away their market. Who buys all the drugs they offer?
Your kids…DARE didn’t work, eh?
Section 8 housing. Advertised elsewhere.
We would be so far, far ahead of the game if we could just shoot these feral sons-a-bitches. Marcus will never be worth anything and he will bounce in and out of jail, knocking up stupid local girls and selling drugs.
Were can these drug dealers pick up some drug tax stamps to they can affix them to the drugs? They at least could avoid that charge on their rap sheet!
Once again It’s called “MASON SHITTY” the community has been a freakshow attraction, 20 years people are saying let’s shoot for five more years. Shitty community shitty results. No Brainer!!! City elected people still do nothing…
Actually I agree 100% we need to purge out a certain group of people from Mason City. It used to be a decent town, now unfortunately you can expect a new shooting, stabbing, or drug bust every single day. Maybe…section eight is just a way for other states to dump their unwanted garbage on us.
Mason City hasn’t been a decent town for at least the last 40 years. It was called little Chicago back in the 70-80’s for a reason. Do you honestly think the drugs went away?
I haven’t run around in MC for a good 10 years (friends of mine still do), I don’t use drugs, never have. I would wager that I could find a dealer within a half an hour.
Now finding one and them getting arrested is completely different. Look at those three armed guys that were in a car last week(? maybe week before)2 charged and one no charges leveled. This seems to happen all the time.
Obama said that he wanted to integrate more African Americans into all neighborhoods, and its working. Landlords, and especially the ones that are Hud approved don’t car who they rent to. They know that us tax payers will foot the bill. I’m not saying that all AAs are bad, (we have white people like that to) but you very seldom see news about the good ones.
Agreed!!!
Seems to be an awful lot of these incidents lately. Seems like the majority of them are happening with a certain group of people. What can the citizens of this town do to get this shit bag criminal element out of our town? I’ve lived here all my life and the past 20 years I’ve watched it get worse. As much as I like the Avenue of the Saints, it sure has opened us up to a new breed of shit bags.
I have lived here over 30 years. It is getting worse every year! IT is the SLUMLORDS like the #1 culprit RUSS HARDY! He doesn’t give a shit! All he cares is about the money and putting cockroaches like him in his pieces of shit houses and apartments. The city needs to stop him and all other slumlords that do not live here!
Well, I will most certainly agree that Hardy, and other slumlords, are partly to blame, but there are other elements at work here.
No, it’s mostly the slumlords. They brought those people in to fill their trashed out rentals.
I have never heard of a landlord actually recruiting people to move to Mason City. I think people come here on their own free will, through word of mouth that the pickings are easy here, and the cost of living is low.
To be clear, Section 8 vouchers are portable, once you get one, you can for the most part take it with you.
This summer, I was invited to look at a complex for seniors. The apartments themselves were clean, new carpeting and paint. All the safety equipment and modern rebuilt elevators.
Yet, vandalism had already taken place. People peeing in stairwells, smoking inside the building, stained carpets, mirrors scratched up with something metal.
A resident told me later, there were drugs being sold there, and it had become a flop house for the homeless and alcoholics. Drunkenness is rampant, thefts are regular, and many of the elderly are fearful of coming out of their apartments after 4 pm.
The woman I talked to said Management seemed almost afraid to remove the bad element, but could not state what reasoning for it. She had been there a number of years, and has seen how bad it has gotten in the past year and a half. She said there were even a few who were violent, and have attacked others in the past (one hangs out at the bus depot in the evenings). Mind you these are people over 55 years old.
And for the record, none of the residents were of color, but some of the outsiders were.