Mason City man gets just over week in jail after entering plea deal on drug charges
MASON CITY — It’s a suspended prison sentence and just over a week in jail for a Mason City man who entered into a plea deal on drug charges.
A criminal complaint filed by the Mason City Police Department says they were dispatched on the night of March 9th to 18 North Monroe for an active robbery call when an officer approached a man sitting in a vehicle who was later identified as 40-year-old Chase Schumacher.
The officer says they observed the suspect pulling a bag out of his pocket and putting it on the floor of the vehicle, and later willingly admitted that it was drugs. Officers later identified it as crystal meth and a meth pipe. Officers then searched Schumacher and found a container with needles, a marijuana baggie, a scale, a vape cartridge, a large knife and a large sum of cash.
Schumacher was charged with possession with the intent to manufacture or deliver meth over five grams, a Class B felony, as well as possession of marijuana second offense and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Schumacher as part of a plea agreement pleaded guilty to possession of meth first offense, a serious misdemeanor, as well as failure to affix a drug tax stamp, a Class D felony.
District Judge Blake Norman on Monday sentenced Schumacher to eight days in jail on the meth charge, and gave him a suspended five year prison sentence and placed him on three years probation on the drug tax stamp charge.
