MASON CITY — An alleged Mason City troublemaker whose run-ins with police stretch back to at least 2014 tried to bolt from officers again Sunday, jumping out a window before police tackled him and hauled him to jail.
Kyle Christopher Movick (pictured at top), 26, was booked into the Cerro Gordo County Jail at 3:28 p.m. on July 12, 2026, following a two-day police hunt that included two alleged attempts to flee from officers.
Movick’s troubles with Mason City police were making headlines more than a decade ago, when he was only 14 years old. Now, police say, he is accused of running from officers twice in three days while wanted on an arrest warrant.
The latest trouble began at approximately 11:37 a.m. Friday, July 10, when a Mason City police officer stopped a Jeep in a business parking lot at 1920 South Federal Avenue.
Mason City Police Chief Mike McKelvey said the driver stopped, but a male passenger jumped from the vehicle and took off running.
The female driver allegedly claimed she did not know the man, despite admitting she had given him a ride.
Officers searched for the fleeing passenger, but he escaped. Evidence gathered during the investigation pointed to Movick as the runner, McKelvey said.
Movick was already wanted on a failure-to-appear warrant issued in May 2026.
Police caught up with him Sunday.
At approximately 11:42 a.m. July 12, officers applied for a search warrant allowing them to enter a relative’s residence at 407 19th Street SE, where police had reason to believe Movick was hiding.
Officers surrounded the house, knocked, announced their presence and waited.
The occupants allegedly refused to cooperate.
Inside, police could see Movick running back and forth between doors and windows, apparently hunting for a way out. Each time he reached another possible escape route, however, officers were waiting outside.
Movick finally jumped through a window and attempted to make a break for it, police said.
He did not get far.
Officers tackled Movick as he tried to flee. Police said he then resisted arrest but was overpowered, handcuffed and taken into custody.
Movick was arrested on the outstanding failure-to-appear warrant and charged with two counts of interference with official acts—one connected to the July 10 escape and another stemming from his alleged window-jumping getaway attempt on July 12.
Jail records show Movick was booked on the following charges:
Failure to appear;
Violation of a no-contact or protective order;
Third-degree criminal mischief involving alleged damage of $750 to $1,500;
Interference with official acts involving alleged injury or damage; and
Interference with official acts with no injury or damage.
Movick’s documented encounters with Mason City police stretch back nearly 12 years.
In September 2014, a 14-year-old Movick was one of three juveniles charged after large rocks were thrown from an old railroad bridge onto passing vehicles.
A rock struck a Mason City police squad car, causing damage, while another smashed into a motorist’s windshield. Police searched the area and flushed Movick and two other youths from nearby brush.
The three juveniles were charged with third-degree criminal mischief. Read NIT’s original report on the dangerous rock-throwing incident here.
Just days later, Movick was back in police custody.
On September 26, 2014, officers arrested him at Mason City High School and charged him with fourth-degree theft for allegedly stealing an iPad. He was booked and released to the Iowa Department of Human Services.
That earlier NIT report can be read here.
Movick surfaced in police reports again in April 2016, when the then-16-year-old was reported missing from the 400 block of 19th Street SE—the same block where police cornered and captured him Sunday.
Police said in 2016 that Movick was believed to have run away voluntarily and had reportedly run away several times before. That report is available here.
More than a decade after those early encounters, police say Movick was still running—but this time, officers had every exit covered.
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