Today (6/15/2012) in Muscatine County District Court:
CHASE BRYSON, DOB: 4/6/1991, of 165 Iowa St., Letts, was sentenced for the offense of Criminal Mischief in the Second Degree. He received a deferred judgment and was placed on probation for two years. He was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $750 and make victim restitution.
TONY HILLS, DOB: 7/26/1993, of 6707 51st Street South, Muscatine, was sentenced for the offense of Criminal Mischief in the Second Degree. He received a deferred judgment and was placed on probation for two years. He was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $750 and make victim restitution.
HILLS and BRYSON were arrested by the Muscatine Police Department after damaging car windows in the 200 block of Amherst Avenue in Muscatine.
MARIO GARCIA, DOB: 2/7/1988, of 420 E. 4th Street, West Liberty, was sentenced for the offense of Fraudulent Practices in the Second Degree. He received a deferred judgment and was placed on probation for three years. He was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $750 and make victim restitution.
Investigation by the Iowa Department of Workforce Development showed that GARCIA had fraudulently received unemployment insurance benefits.
CAYLIN NICHOLS, DOB: 2/24/1990, of 414 Evans Street, was sentenced for the offense of Possession of a Precursor Substance. She received an indeterminate prison term not to exceed five years and a fine of $750.
Investigation by the Muscatine County Drug Task Force showed that NICHOLS had been in possession of pseudoephedrine with the intent that the substance be used to manufacture methamphetamine.
ADAM ELIJAH BASSETT, DOB: 8/2/1986, of 901 E. 9th Street, Muscatine, pled guilty to two counts of Child Endangerment.
During BASSETT's guilty plea he stated that he left his two minor children in the custody of a babysitter while knowing that the babysitter was not a suitable person to care for children. The childen both received minor injuries. The case was investigated by the Muscatine Police Department.
BASSETT will be sentenced July 27, 2012, at 9:15 a.m.
