WORTH COUNTY – An Iowa Falls man was set free during a traffic stop, but stuck around to allegedly take a hit of meth and cops took him to the slammer.
On December 25, 2019 at approximately 7:07 PM, a deputy with the Worth County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop on a 2016 Chrysler 200 on Highway 65 near the intersection of 450th Street for traveling 66 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone. The driver, identified as 36-year-old Alicia Neely of Iowa Falls, was found to be driving on a revoked driver’s license. Neely was taken into custody.
A passenger in the vehicle, 28-year-old Hayden Stevens of Iowa Falls, chose to stay in the vehicle and wait for a ride with two juvenile passengers.
At approximately 10:02 PM, the same deputy went to check to make sure Stevens and the two juveniles were picked up safely and observed them still in the same location. The deputy approached the vehicle and observed Stevens in the driver’s seat sweating profusely with bloodshot, watery eyes and a female’s wallet on his lap. When asked what was in the wallet, Stevens proceeded to open it in front of the deputy and the deputy observed multiple small plastic baggies containing methamphetamine. A pipe used for smoking methamphetamine was recovered as well. Upon further investigation, it was determined Neely and Stevens had been sharing the methamphetamine.
Stevens was subsequently charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance (2nd Offense) and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Neely was also charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia in addition to her Driving While Revoked charge.
Sounds like 60% of Mason City’s population. You’d be surprised who all uses and has fallen in with this drug!! It’s not just the low life’s anymore. Lawyers, teachers, bankers, local masonaries, Curries, Serta, Hospital employees, nurse aides, nursing home workers, and local bar owners/managers and bar fly’s. It’s an epidemic.
You’re new here huh? It’s always been like that in mason city. How many times do you gotta hear stories of the task force being on meth? Most construction workers and factory workers are on meth. Mason city has always been methed out from high class to low life junkie. It’s been this way since the early to mid nineties and nothing seems to stop it. You’d think seeing people who have been on the sh*t would be a great deterent. Coke is another one in mason city, you can be sure someone in every social group and ladder has some type of substance issue in this town. It’s just always had this seedy culture to it.
Why isn’t there child endangerment charges for the 2 juveniles in the car???
Traffic stops with driver passengers do not have to show I’d are name are even speak to law enforcement unless they committed crime the 5th amendment and the 4th protect them
I think that I’ve seen you on the show Cops, and on live PD.
You can’t fix stupid.
Good, two more losers off the street. I would think that there would be a charge of child endangerment also.
Especially considering the fact that the Worth County Deputy Sheriff on scene chose to allow someone to drive the Chrysler knowing it was uninsured at the time and he chose not to run the person’s name to be sure they weren’t a fugitive or the validity of their driver’s license. In fact, he didn’t so much as look at their State issued I.D. They could have been a fugitive wanted on a federal indictment, or an alcoholic that had been barred for D.W.I.
You obviously didn’t read the story . It said the passengers opted to wait for a ride and the deputy went back later to check on them. They stayed back to get high instead.