MASON CITY — This convicted thief and drug felon that has proven to be a total scourge upon the area for years allegedly recently ran off from Mason City’s hapless BeJe Clark residential facility and left poisonous meth behind in her living quarters, but now justice may be landing hard.
Mason City Police Chief Mike McKelvey told NIT that Cassandra Jo Davis, 26, left the residential facility around 8 a.m. on September 13 and staff notified police, who investigated the unauthorized departure and sought a felony escape warrant.
After Davis left, BeJe Clark staff searched her living area and found suspected controlled substances. Police were called back, and the investigation widened.
McKelvey said the material appeared to be methamphetamine. Officers sought a second warrant, this one alleging bringing contraband drugs into a correctional facility, a Class D felony.
The chief described the substance as suspected methamphetamine.
Two warrants, then a return to custody
A judge approved both felony warrants September 14 — one day after Davis allegedly walked away.
McKelvey said Davis (pictured at top) was apparently arrested in Franklin County between September 14 and 15, although he did not have details of that arrest. She was returned to Cerro Gordo County September 15, with jail records listing her booking at 2 a.m.
Then came more warrants.
According to McKelvey, additional probation-violation warrants were served on Davis in the jail between September 15 and 21.
The suspected drug discovery followed another recent case at the facility. NIT previously reported on Janita Kay Euvino’s August arrest at BeJe Clark on a separate felony drug-possession allegation.
November 2025: Five-year prison sentence suspended
Iowa court records show Davis had already received opportunities to remain outside prison before the latest allegations.
On November 4, 2025, she pleaded guilty in Cerro Gordo County to third-or-subsequent possession of a controlled substance, a Class D felony, stemming from a February 6, 2025, offense.
Judge Adam Sauer imposed a five-year prison sentence, suspended it and placed Davis on probation for three years. A $1,025 fine was also suspended.
Within weeks, probation proceedings were back before the court.
A probation-violation report was filed in December, followed by a statewide warrant later that month. That warrant was served March 20, 2026.
June 2026: Theft conviction and residential placement
On June 5, the court recorded a guilty adjudication on the probation violation in Davis’ felony drug case and added a requirement for 180 days in a residential facility.
That same day, Davis pleaded guilty in a separate Cerro Gordo County case to third-degree theft, an aggravated misdemeanor, for a March 2 offense.
Sauer imposed another prison sentence — two years — and suspended it. Davis received two years of probation and another order requiring 180 days in a residential facility. An $855 fine was suspended.
Both cases therefore contain residential-placement orders entered June 5. The supplied records do not establish that those placements were consecutive.
Roughly three months later, Davis allegedly left BeJe Clark without permission.
July 2026: Another suspended sentence, this time for 10 years
Between the June residential orders and September departure, Davis was sentenced in another county.
On July 8, she pleaded guilty in Hancock County to first-degree theft, a Class C felony, stemming from a November 30, 2025, offense.
Judge Rustin Davenport imposed a 10-year prison sentence but suspended it, placing Davis on probation for five years. A $1,370 fine was suspended.
Two motor-vehicle burglary counts and an attempted third-degree burglary count in that case were dismissed July 13.
By September, Davis had suspended prison sentences in three separate drug and theft cases. The alleged departure from BeJe Clark brought a fresh round of proceedings.
September: Probation cases return to court
Hancock County records show a probation-violation report and revocation filing dated September 14, the day after Davis allegedly left the facility.
A revocation hearing in that case is scheduled for October 27 at 1:30 p.m.
In the Cerro Gordo County felony drug case, a new probation-violation report was filed September 14. Revocation proceedings followed, along with a statewide warrant specifying a $5,000 cash bond.
That warrant was served September 21. The following day’s initial-appearance entry says Davis was held for bond.
A revocation hearing in that case is scheduled for September 29 at 2:45 p.m.
The records do not establish that her suspended sentences have been activated or that they would run consecutively.
Earlier conviction involved fighting or violent behavior and theft
Davis’ record also includes a Kossuth County conviction for disorderly conduct involving fighting or violent behavior, a simple misdemeanor.
Algona police filed the complaint April 28, 2023, for an offense listed on that same date. The court’s charge summary records a guilty adjudication through a negotiated or voluntary plea.
In 2022, Davis was nabbed in Osage for theft and given a deferred judgement. A judge, however, slapped her with a fine and court fees totaling over $740, most of which remains unpaid.
New felony allegations remain pending
McKelvey identified the new warrants as escape and bringing contraband drugs into a correctional facility, both Class D felonies.
The supplied jail listing shows escape from custody involving a felon under Iowa Code 719.4(1), third-or-subsequent controlled-substance possession under Iowa Code 124.401(5), and five probation-violation entries.
Davis’ prior drug, theft and disorderly conduct convictions are established court outcomes. The new escape, contraband and unresolved probation allegations have not been adjudicated in the records provided. She is presumed innocent of new criminal charges unless proven guilty in court.