Lang
9/23/21
An employee at Shelter House has been arrested after Iowa City Police say he was overseeing the facility while impaired.
According to arrest records, officers were called to the Southgate Avenue shelter just after 3:45 Monday morning for a subject trying to enter a resident’s room. Police spoke with the attendant on duty at the front desk, later identified as 21-year-old Owen Mosena of East Burlington Street.
Investigators say Mosena showed signs of impairment and refused to give police his name, only saying that he was a Shelter House employee.
Police say Mosena kept walking into rooms and wandering around the facility despite officers’ orders to stay in one place. He was detained and placed in handcuffs, but investigators say he kept trying to walk around and pulled away from officers who told him to sit and wait for a sober staff member to show up. At one point he allegedly said he planned to get bolt cutters to remove the handcuffs.
Mosena was arrested. A search of his person turned up a glass pipe police say smelled heavily of marijuana. Court records show on Wednesday he pleaded guilty to charges of Interference with Official Acts and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and was fined $355.