MASON CITY — A Northern Iowa woman who received deferred judgments for dependent-adult abuse and drunk driving is now serving time in the Cerro Gordo County Jail after violating probation and losing both of those favorable court dispositions.
Chloe Rae Nedved, 22, was booked into the jail at 3:29 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, 2026. Jail records list her as serving sentences for caretaker dependent-adult abuse and first-offense operating while intoxicated, with no bond attached to either case.
Court records show Nedved was ordered to serve five days in jail for the dependent-adult abuse conviction and two days for the OWI conviction. Both deferred judgments were revoked July 8 after another round of probation-revocation proceedings.
The more troubling case began with an allegation that Nedved intentionally or knowingly committed abuse against a dependent adult while acting as a caretaker.
The alleged offense occurred October 4, 2024, and the Iowa Medicaid Fraud Control Unit filed the criminal complaint. A statewide arrest warrant carrying a $1,000 cash-or-surety bond was issued December 6, 2024.
Cerro Gordo County sheriff’s deputies arrested Nedved on the warrant February 10, 2025. She was booked into jail at age 21 and released the following day after posting bond.
A public social-media profile bearing Nedved’s name identified her at that time as a certified nursing assistant at Osage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center and listed Rockford as her place of residence. The available court documents do not identify the dependent adult or provide details about the conduct underlying the charge.
Nedved (pictured at top) initially pleaded not guilty but later entered a negotiated guilty plea to dependent-adult abuse, a serious misdemeanor, on July 24, 2025.
Under Iowa law, a caretaker who intentionally or knowingly commits dependent-adult abuse under that portion of the statute is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
District Court Judge Adam Sauer granted Nedved a deferred judgment and placed her on probation for one year. A deferred judgment can allow a defendant to avoid a permanent conviction if all probation requirements are completed successfully.
Problems soon followed.
The Department of Correctional Services filed a probation-violation report in September 2025. Nedved later pleaded guilty to contempt of court and received a two-day jail sentence on January 21, 2026, while being allowed to remain on probation.
A second probation-violation report was filed May 29, 2026. The court issued another statewide warrant carrying a $1,000 cash-only bond, and Cerro Gordo County deputies arrested Nedved on June 11.
On July 8, Nedved admitted the probation violation through a negotiated plea. Sauer revoked the deferred judgment, entered judgment and ordered her to serve five days in jail and pay a $430 fine.
Nedved’s drunk-driving case followed a similar path.
Clear Lake police filed a complaint accusing her of first-offense OWI following an incident on September 6, 2025. She initially pleaded not guilty before entering a negotiated guilty plea January 14, 2026.
The court granted another deferred judgment, imposed a $1,250 civil penalty—with half waived—and placed her on probation for one year.
That probation was also revoked July 8. The court entered judgment on the serious-misdemeanor OWI conviction, sentenced Nedved to two days in jail and imposed a $625 fine. Court records show $1,625 in fines, surcharges and costs associated with that case have been paid.
The legal trouble may not be over.
Nedved is currently facing a separate charge of second-offense OWI in Story County stemming from an alleged incident on May 28, 2026—the day before correctional officials filed the latest probation-violation reports in her Cerro Gordo County cases.
Story County authorities arrested her May 29, and she later posted bond. She pleaded not guilty June 15.
A second-offense OWI is an aggravated misdemeanor under Iowa law. Prosecutors filed a plea agreement July 22, but court records do not yet show a conviction or disclose the agreement’s terms. A plea hearing is scheduled for 11:55 a.m. August 12.
The Story County charge remains pending. Nedved is presumed innocent of that charge unless and until she enters a guilty plea or is convicted in court.