Calvin Eugene Murray Jr., 43, is charged with first-degree assault, a felony, and second-degree assault. He was arrested Sunday and released Monday on $10,000 corporate bond, according to electronic court records.
A Lake City man arrested earlier this year for alleged drug trafficking was sentenced to probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to reduced charges. According to Carroll County District Court records, 33-year-old Nicholas Russell Pickering pled guilty to three counts of possession of methamphetamine, serious misdemeanors. He was ordered to serve one year in jail and pay $430 in fines for each count, with the terms to be served concurrently. However, the combined three-year sentence was suspended as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. Instead, Pickering was placed on probation for three years to the Iowa Department of Correctional Services. Pickering was arrested twice by the Carroll Police Department on Nov. 24, 2020 and Feb. 17 after law enforcement located narcotics, baggies and scales in his possession on both occasions.
A Carroll man accused of carrying weapons at a downtown Carroll business has been scheduled for trial in August. Carroll County District Court records show 44-year-old David Paul Sousa filed a written not guilty plea Tuesday to the serious misdemeanor charge. Sousa was arrested by the Carroll Police Department on March 30 after authorities were called to the 500 block of North Main Street for a report of a man carrying and wielding an approximately seven-inch knife. Sousa’s jury trial is set to begin on Tuesday, Aug. 10 with a pretrial conference slated for June 24. In Iowa, a serious misdemeanor carries a maximum penalty of up to a year in jail and $1,875 in fines.
A Carroll man accused of crafting weapons while in custody at the Carroll County jail was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison Thursday. According to Carroll County District Court records, 30-year-old Brice Edward Shrimpton pled guilty at the end of April to possession of a weapon in a correctional intuition, a class C felony. Shrimpton’s 10-year sentence will be served concurrently with a 14-year term handed down following a second-degree burglary conviction and probation revocation earlier this year. The charges were filed against Shrimpton after a makeshift plexiglass knife and shiv fashioned from a toothbrush were located in his cell while he was awaiting sentencing following the February conviction.
Trial information was filed yesterday (Tuesday) in Carroll County District Court against a Coon Rapids woman accused of leaving the scene of a serious injury