MASON CITY – On Monday, Janelle Rammelsberg, age 28 of Mason City, was sentenced to an extension of her probation by three years after a negotiated voluntary guilty plea for delivery of…
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Spencer man admits to receiving child pornography
SIOUX CITY – A man who received child pornography pled guilty today in federal court in Sioux City. Justin Funck, age 27, of Spencer, Iowa, was convicted of one count of receiving…
Mason City man sentenced to Beje Clark for car theft
MASON CITY – Shawn Armstrong, age 38, of Mason City was sentenced to a residential treatment program at Beje Clark by Judge Colleen Weiland in Cerro Gordo County District court on Monday,…
Mason City man sent to jail for 6 months
MASON CITY – On Tuesday, November 1st, Randy Axiotis, 49, was sentenced to two 180 day sentences after entering Alford pleas in three criminal cases in Cerro Gordo County District Court. In…
NIACC instructor arrested for harassment
MASON CITY – NIACC instructor Jeffrey Pilz has landed in jail again, according to the Cerro Gordo County inmate population report. Pilz, 56, was booked into the Cerro Gordo County jail today…
Traffic stop leads to arrest of man when drugs are found
CLEAR LAKE – On Thursday November 03, 2011 at approximately 7:00 a.m. Officers from the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Office and Clear Lake Police Department stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation…
FBI releases 2010 statistics on law enforcement officers killed and assaulted
WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to information released last week by the FBI, 56 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty last year; 72 officers died in accidents while…
Mason City man accused of forgery
MASON CITY – On Wednesday, October 26th, Mason City police arrested Monte Bitker, age 27, of 1708 Taft Ave South, Mason City after receiving a report of a suspicious subject cashing checks….
Younkers employee arrested for felony theft from store
MASON CITY – Mason City police were summoned to Younkers Department Store at 102 South Delaware, in Mason City’s Southbridge Mall on a report of an employee theft shortly before 11 a.m….
Repeated sex offender gets Beje Clark for felony 2nd offense residency restriction violations
MASON CITY – On Tuesday, October 25th, David Dow was sentenced to 6 month at Beje Clark a local residence treatment center, Iowa sex offender registry for life, three years of probation,…
Fugitive Arizona sex offender gets 45 days for sex offender registry violations here
MASON CITY – A man who originally would not identify himself the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s deputies after his arrest for criminal trespass as NorthIowaToday.com reported on October 3rd was sentenced by…
Repeat sex offender gets probation for felony registry violation
MASON CITY – On Tuesday, October 25th, Shawn Holmes of 201 Virginia Street in Mesrvey was sentenced to a 5 year suspended prison, an additional 10 years on the sex offender registry,…
Cops nab three during traffic stop
MASON CITY – At 3:10 a.m. Monday, October 24th, a Mason City Police Officer stopped to speak with three suspicious subjects in the parking lot of America’s Best Inn at 24 5th…
Tip leads to capture of escaped fugitive in Mason City
MASON CITY – Shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday, October 5th, Mason City police received a tip that a fugitive wanted for escape from Beje Clark and numerous other criminal offenses was…
DCI releases names of those involved in Forest City Shooting
FOREST CITY – The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is now releasing the names of the officers involved in the October 20, 2011 shooting incident in Forest City, Iowa. The officers have…
Ames police officer nearly run down by stolen vehicle, fires weapon
Ames – The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is now releasing the name of the officer involved in the shooting incident in Ames Friday night. The name of the officer is…
Iowa man charged with child pornography offenses
CEDAR RAPIDS – James Byers, age 56, from Belle Plaine, Iowa, has been charged with three child pornography offenses. The charges are contained in an indictment unsealed October 11, 2011, in United…
DCI agents, Forest City officer involved in shooting incident
FOREST CITY, IOWA – Last night, October 20, 2011, in Forest City at approximately 6:15 PM, two agents from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation were involved in an altercation with an…
Clear Lake woman receives probation in child endangerment case
MASON CITY – Tonya Clifford had originally been arrested and transported to Cerro Gordo County jail by Clear Lake police on September 1st on an aggravated misdemeanor charge of child endangerment from…
Waterloo man sentenced to federal prison on drug charges
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 58 year-old man who was selling large quantities of marijuana while collecting Social Security benefits was sentenced on October 11, 2011 to almost six years in federal prison….
Two wanted Mason City men on bikes stopped by cops and arrested
MASON CITY – Shortly after 4 a.m. on Monday, October 18th, Mason City police stopped two men for no lights on their bicycles in the 1500 block on 4th Street SW. Upon…
Clear Lake man has one count of possession of child porn dismissed
MASON CITY – On Tuesday, October 11th, an aggravated misdemeanor charge of purchase/possession of medium depicting sexual exploitation of a minor was dismissed without prejudice by magistrate Rolf Aronson against Bradley Scott…
Fed’s shut down 18 child porn websites
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In another example of the increasingly international nature of crime, a man was recently indicted on federal charges of running 18 Chinese-language child pornography websites out of his apartment…
Law Enforcement captures wanted escapee after he tries to hide in apartment
MASON CITY – Shortly before 1 AM Sunday, October 16th, local law enforcement spotted Dustin Barnes, age 20, behind Alley Katz bar at 1341 Federal Ave North, Mason City. When Dustin Barnes…
Husband and wife arrested after altercation with another man in Mason City
MASON CITY – A Mason City couple was jailed after an altercation. Quinn Symonds, age 29, and his wife, Jessica Lynn Symonds, age 22, were arrested along with another subject on Sunday,…
NIACC history instructor arrested on harassment charge
MASON CITY – Shortly after 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 16th, members of the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Department received a report of harassing messages. Upon investigation, Jeffrey Pilz, age 56 of…
Lake Mills Police arrest local man for 14 counts of burglary and drug related offenses
LAKE MILLS, IOWA – On Friday, October 7th, Lake Mills Police arrested Carl Mikkel Shayne Sundberg, age 20, on one felony count of burglary in the 2nd degree, 11 aggravated misdemeanor counts…
Mason City man charged a second time for cruelty to animals
MASON CITY – On Thursday, October 6th, Mason City police went to 2224 21st Street SW, Mason City for a report of cruelty to animals. After the investigation, police arrested Chad Mineart,…
Thornton man arrested a 6th time for domestic assault
THORNTON – Shortly before 6:30 a.m. Sunday, October 9th, Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s deputies took a report of a domestic assault. Kenneth Neilsen age 29 of 212 4th Street North, Thornton, was…
Mason City shoplifter caught with over $500 dollars in merchandise
MASON CITY – Shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 1st, Mason City police officers were called to Hy-Vee East on a report of a shoplifter. Police officers arrested Tiffany Etter, age…
Man arrested on felony domestic assault charge
Early Sunday, October 2nd, Douglas Ross Welsher age 38 was booked into the Cerro Gordo county jail on one count of domestic assault 3rd or subsequent offence. Iowa law enhances the charges…
Cedar County, Iowa man charged with child pornography offenses
CEDAR RAPIDS – Timothy Wilker, age 48, from West Branch, Iowa, has been charged with one count of receipt of child pornography and three counts of possession of child pornography. The charges…
Mason City man sent to prison after violation of probation a 2nd time
MASON CITY – In Cerro Gordo County District Court September 27th, Cole Pearce, age 19, of Mason City was convicted for a 2nd time of violating probation and sentenced to prison by…
Man shot at North Federal Casey’s
MASON CITY – Mason City police were dispatched to the North Federal Casey’s gas station Tuesday afternoon at 4:54 p.m. for a report of a shooting. It has now been said that…
Mason City police officer shoots pit bull
MASON CITY – On July 1st, 2011 at 4:56 p.m. a Mason City police officer responded to a complaint of a vicious pit bull running at large in the 200 block of…
Intoxicated man calls authorities, arrested in East Park
MASON CITY – A Mason City man was arrested in East Park Tuesday morning after calling authorities about “what he believed to be a body in the East Park river by the…
Drunk driver launches vehicle across Federal Avenue, lands in cemetery
MASON CITY – A drunk driver early Wednesday morning caused a ruckus in an otherwise quiet Mason City neighborhood, as he took his vehicle airborne and crashed into Elmwood Cemetery, destroying a…
Cameras discourage crime in, near liquor store
By Joe Buttweiler. Part 3 in a series. MASON CITY – Video cameras that were installed following a fight at Northside Liquor last May have definitely had the desired effect, according to Gulshan…
Officers have criminal data at their fingertips
By Joe Buttweiler. Second in a series. Read Part 1: Online maps help citizens, police track crime Read Part 3: Cameras discourage crime in, near liquor store MASON CITY – The Mason…
Online maps help citizens, police track crime
MASON CITY – Want to know what criminal activity has been reported in your neighborhood? Then check out the Mason City Police Department’s online crime mapping website. The customizable map allows users…