Habitual intoxicant in trouble with IC police again
Hunter
6/27/19
A Cedar Rapids man who has been a thorn in Iowa City authorities’ side was at it again Wednesday afternoon, allegedly fighting over a panhandling corner while intoxicated.
50-year-old Scott Colebank was called in by numerous witnesses as being one of two subjects fighting at the corner of Riverside Drive and Highway 6 at approximately 4:15pm. They identified Colebank as the aggressor in the fight and he allegedly said that it originated over a dispute about who gets to stand at that location to panhandle.
Colebank was observed with a strong smell of ingested alcohol and he allegedly admitted to drinking heavily the previous day. He had bloodshot watery eyes and a post arrest PBT showed a blood-alcohol level of .227.
Colebank has at least three previous public intoxication convictions, and as recently as last Saturday was arrested after becoming belligerent in the Mercy Hospital ER, threatening to fight officers and going into great detail on how he was going to shoot the arresting officer in the head and cut him into pieces so his body wouldn’t be found.
On June 8th he’s accused of throwing food around the Riverside Drive McDonalds while intoxicated and threatening to beat up workers and customers, and last June was arrested at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for fighting with other patients,
Wednesday’s incident found Colebank charged with Public Intoxication, third or subsequent offense, an aggravated misdemeanor punishable by a prison sentence of up to two years.