A Carroll man originally charged with forgery and theft was sentenced Friday after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors. According to Carroll County District Court records, 26-year-old Corey Allen Mutum was arrested in January for stealing checks from the victim and using them without the account owner’s consent. As part of the plea deal, the felony forgery charges against Mutum were dismissed, and he was sentenced to 60 days in jail with all but two days suspended and credit for time served on the fourth-degree theft count. He was also ordered to pay over $1,200 in fines, court costs and victim restitution and was placed on probation for one year.
A Coon Rapids woman charged after leaving the scene of a motor vehicle crash in April is scheduled for trial in August. Carroll County District Court records show 25-year-old Kori Anne Scott faces a single count of failure to report a personal injury accident, a serious misdemeanor. Scott filed her written not guilty plea with the court last week, and a judge signed an order setting her jury trial to begin on Tuesday, Aug. 10. The charge stems from an investigation by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office into a April 11 incident near Glidden. Authorities say Scott was operating a 2003 Chevrolet Impala on Timber Avenue when she lost control of the vehicle and crashed, resulting in injuries to a passenger.
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The sentence for a Carroll man accused of breaking into a pickup truck last November was handed down Thursday. According to Carroll County District Court records, 19-year-old Dalton Lee Andrew Maples pled guilty to third-degree burglary, a class D felony, and was sentenced to up to five years in prison. However, the sentence, along with over $1,700 in fines and surcharges, were suspended, and Maples was instead placed on probation for three years to the Iowa Department of Correctional Services as part of an agreement with prosecutors. A Carroll Police Department affidavit says Maples and three other men, identified as 22-year-old Devin Christian Morrison and 19-year-old Charles James Rowland and 18-year-old Austin Lee Wheeler, all of Carroll, broke into a truck parked in the 100 block of North Clark Street on Nov. 5, removing several items from inside and causing over $2,000 in damage to the vehicle.
A former Carroll County employee's request for judicial review of a September ruling that she was discharged for misconduct has been denied. In Carroll County