Lang/Hunter
3/16/20
A Shelter House resident faces charges that he violated a no-contact order for the second time in less than two days. .
According to Iowa City Police, 43-year-old Demetrius Jones, a transient from Illinois, showed up at the protected woman’s residence in the Town & Campus Apartments on Arthur Street and knocked on her door just after 2:15 Saturday afternoon. When the woman told Jones to leave, he allegedly claimed he didn’t have to. He only left after she showed him she was calling the police. The woman showed arriving police voicemails and text messages from Jones, who had been contacting her since 12:31pm the previous day. Police arrested Jones and charged him with a no-contact violation, then released him.
Then again Sunday night, police were called back to Town and Campus just before 10:30 on reports of a male at the reporting party’s window. They came upon Jones again and arrested him for violation of a no-contact order the second time, and for trespass, a simple misdemeanor.
Jones was arrested for the same offense last month when he also called the woman multiple times before showing up at her door. He fled from arriving officers in that case and was later found hiding in a closet behind a water heater at another apartment in Town & Campus.
The no-contact order has been in effect since November.
