Tama Co. Court News
Before Judge Chad Kepros in Tama County District Court in Toledo: Craig Allan Peters, 70, Gladbrook, entered a written guilty plea to 3rd degree criminal mischief. He was fined $625, assessed court costs totaling $130 and directed to pay a total of $3,941 restitution. Peters was also sentenced to a suspended two-year prison term and placed on unsupervised probation. Peters was charged on Sept., 17, 2016, with using a screwdriver to open the money drawer on an automatic teller machine (ATM) at the Great Western Bank in Gladbrook after he made a withdrawal from the machine and didn’t get the money out in time. The action caused the damage amount claimed. The charge was filed by Tama County Deputy Sheriff Sean Gehring. Donald Charles Barrett, 56, Traer, entered a written guilty plea to 2nd offense public intoxication. He was fined and assessed court costs totaling $525 and sentenced to 90 days in jail with credit for time served and the balance suspended. He was placed on unsupervised probation. Barrett was charged in the 200 block of 205th Street on Sept. 6 by Tama County Deputy Joe Quandt. Megan Marie Leeper, 26, Tama, pleaded guilty to 3rd degree theft. She was given a suspended two-year prison sentence and a $625 fine was suspended. Leeper was directed to pay $121 in court costs. The sentence is to run consecutively to that imposed on a 4th degree theft charge. She was placed on supervised probation for two years. The 3rd degree charge was filed on Dec. 20, 2016, alleging Leeper wrote 11 checks totaling $572 in a period of Sept. 1-6, 2016 to Jiffy North in Toledo which were on a closed credit union account. The charge was filed by Toledo Police Officer Andrea Clark. Nathan Michael O’Connor, 42, Marion, entered a written guilty plea to a charge of 2nd offense possession of a controlled substance – Psilocybin. O’Connor was sentenced to 180 days in jail with all but seven days suspended, fined and assessed court costs totaling $979 and placed on supervised probation. O’Connor was charged on Aug. 15, 2105 with possession of marijuana by Meskwaki Nation Tribal Police Officer Shawn Dahlin. The charge was amended in a trial information filed by Assistant Tama County Attorney Peter Mommer to possession of Psilocybin. Christopher Kent Parsons, 32, Sumner, Iowa, entered a written guilty plea to driving while license revoked. He was fined and assessed court costs totaling $585. Parsons was sentenced to 90 days in jail with credit for time already served and the balance suspended, and placed on unsupervised probation for one year. Parsons was charged on Aug. 27 at P Avenue and 145th Street by Iowa State Trooper Jared Rude.



