Lang
5/12/20
Pretrial release has been revoked for an Iowa City man accused of harassment.
52-year-old Thomas Warren Jr. of Hastings Avenue is awaiting trial on two 1st Degree Harassment and one 3rd Degree Harassment charges after allegedly sending threatening text messages to a woman with whom he has a history. He was released from the Johnson County Jail on May 1st while awaiting his next hearing. A no-contact order was put in place.
Police say on May 4th Warren circumvented a no-contact order by sending his ex-wife messages through his business partner. Two days later a woman contacted Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies to report that Warren had sent her and her daughter messages that were “odd and disturbing.”
Warren was arrested and booked into the Johnson County Jail just after 6:30 Monday night. Online records do not indicate his next court date.
Warren has a history of harassment allegations against him. Stalking and harassment charges against Warren were dismissed in 2018 after he allegedly threatened to kill his ex-wife and the couple’s children.
Police say in June of 2016 Warren went to an 11-year-old girl’s home while her mother was away and told the girl, “You should come to my house in a bikini and heels. I know you feel the sexual tension and that’s okay.” He then instructed the 11-year-old not to tell her mother. The girl told her mother about the incident and police were contacted. Warren pleaded guilty to charges of 1st Degree Harassment, Enticing a Minor and Child Endangerment.
In November of 2016 Warren was convicted of Trespassing after urinating and defecating on a porch on Lower West Branch Road. Police later found him passed out naked in the grass on the 1000 block of Scott Park Drive.