Charles City man has probation revoked, is sentenced on additional charges

By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com

A Charles City man on probation after being convicted of selling methamphetamine has had his probation revoked, and he has also been sentenced for additional drug charges.

As a result, Mack Mathis, age 41, was sentenced this week in Floyd County District Court to serve up to 15 years in prison.

Mathis was arrested in June 2018 for having sold methamphetamine to a confidential informant. He was charged with delivery of methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a public park, a Class C felony.

In January 2019, Mathis pleaded guilty to that charge as well as a charge of possession of cocaine and a charge of possession of marijuana.

In March he was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and a $1,000 fine, both suspended, three to five years of probation, and ordered to be placed at Beje Clarke Residential Facility in Mason City or a similar facility “until maximum benefits are achieved as determined by the Iowa Department of Corrections.”

In July, the Department of Corrections filed a probation violation report, alleging that Mathis had failed to return to Beje Clarke after a furlough on July 15, that he had been charged with two counts of possession of meth, one count of possession of marijuana, three counts of delivery of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and that he had tested positive on a drug test.

The Floyd County Attorney’s Office applied to have Mathis arrested and his probation revoked, and he was arrested in October in Ohio.

In December, Mathis pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver of meth, a Class C felony, and possession with intent to deliver of marijuana, a Class D felony, in return for other charges being dropped.

On Tuesday this week, District Court Judge DeDra Schroeder held a hearing on the probation revocation and the sentencing for the new charges.

She ruled that Mathis’ probation was revoked and she imposed the original sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

On the charge of delivery of meth, Schroeder sentenced Mathis to up to 10 years in prison, to be served concurrently, or at the same time, as the sentence from the probation revocation.

On the charge of delivery of marijuana, the judge sentenced Mathis to up to five years in prison, to be served consecutively with the meth charge, for a total of not more than 15 years.

He was transferred from Floyd County Jail to the state prison system on Thursday, according to a jailer.

As part of the plea agreement, the Floyd County Attorney’s Office had agreed to recommend that the prison sentences by suspended, but the judge is not bound by that recommendation, and Mathis specifically agreed in his plea statement that the judge may impose any penalty up to the legal maximum.