Lang
8/29/21
A man who once broke out the windows of two Johnson County-owned vehicles is now accused of breaking a window at a Johnson County-owned building.
Iowa City Police and Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Johnson County Health and Human Services Building on South Dubuque Street just before 2:30 Saturday afternoon for a report of a man who had broken a window. The reporting party was the clerk at the nearby Delimart, who told investigators that 30-year-old Bryant Smith of Ainsworth had come into the store and told them to call the police. Smith then allegedly showed officers where he had broken the window, valued at $500.
Smith is charged with 4th Degree Criminal Mischief, a Serious Misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of one year in jail.
Smith had been given a criminal trespass warning for the South Dubuque Street parking ramp of the same building in 2020 after he used a 2×4 to smash two rear windows and a windshield on two county-owned vehicles. Total estimated damage was $2,000. Smith pleaded guilty to a Trespassing Causing Damage Greater Than $300 charge, with a more serious 2nd Degree Criminal Mischief charge having been dropped in a deal with prosecutors. He was given a one-year suspended sentence and one year of probation.