MASON CITY – Shortly before 9:30 PM Saturday night, Mason City Police went to apartment #3 at 114 5th Street NE in Mason City after receiving information a wanted subject was hiding out there.
Willie York, age 32, fled on foot but was quickly apprehended by law enforcement.
York was booked into the Cerro Gordo County jail a short time later on a warrant for a serious misdemeanor charge of absence from custody, a simple misdemeanor count of interference with official acts, and a Beje Clark hold.
Law enforcement had been searching for York since Dec 23rd when he had been allowed to leave Beje Clark on furlough to search for a job and never returned.
York is serving a 20-year sentence for robbery and terrorism in a 1999 shooting incident in the 900 block of North Federal in Mason City. In the incident, York was found guilty of firing multiple shots into an occupied apartment’s window. Court records show an attempted murder charge in the incident was dismissed.
According to online court records, Willie York has twice been convicted on escape charges from Beje Clark 2009 and 2011, yet repeatedly is sent to the facility.
It is not clear at this time rather anybody will face charges for helping York hide out.
SUBJECT IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
Its so nice to read the well thought through and educated responses to the criminal behavior of these PEOPLE; and personal ideals of those making these responses must be of the utmost moral fiber as they appear to hold themselves to the higest levels of personal integrity. WAY TO GO MASON CITY!!!!!!
I spell like this so you have something to write back about moron.
Let’s be honest now, how many white people are running around town trying to shoot and shooting at people cause they can’t use their fists?
hang em like they did years ago and no im not prejudice hang both white and non whites that repeat offences and do it at the public sqrare so everyone can watch and maybe learn a thing or 2.
It’s the year 2012, and we still hear or in this case, read such garbage. God help you.
Really?? Grow up.
Usually we see criminals not learn from mistakes clearly the court system can’t learn either. Now lets be smart and not send him back to beje geez
Hope he doesn’t get Judge Colleen Weiland, he’ll for sure go scott free. She has a penchant for male defendants in her court room. Watch out ladies!
Are u kidding me? He shoots into an occupied apartment & gets to go on “job-seeking” furloughs, yet my friend is going to prison for 30-40 yrs for his 1st drug offense? Yes, he deserves punishment, but seems punishments have been flip flopped these days. WHAT A JOKE THE SYSTEM IS!
nothing a bullet wont cure. useless piece of crap.
So AGREED Steve!
They need to send this guy to prison. Obviously BeJe isn’t going to keep him in check. Just another waste of oxygen and a drain on society.
someone serving 20 years for robbery and terrorism should be in a secured prison, not the beje clark facility.