Man convicted of Charles City burglaries sentenced to prison after probation violation

By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com

A man who was given probation after pleading guilty to thefts in 2017 from the Charles City YMCA and a Charles City church has been sentenced to prison for violating that probation.

Jonathan Goodman, age 32, pleaded guilty in August 2017 to two counts of third-degree burglary, Class D felonies, for breaking into the YMCA and stealing a computer, cash and other property, and for breaking into Trinity United Methodist Church and stealing computers, TVs, tools, cash and other property.

He was sentenced to up to five years in prison on each charge, to be served concurrently (at the same time), and that sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for three to five years.

Judge Peter B. Newell also ordered that Goodman, who listed a Charles City address at the time, be extradited to Kentucky, where he faced other charges.

In Kentucky, Goodman was also placed on probation, and in September 2018 his Kentucky probation officer reported to the Iowa Department of Corrections that Goodman had failed to be available for random drug screenings, had moved without informing his probation officer and had been placed on absconded status.

The Floyd County Attorney’s Office filed to have Goodman’s Iowa probation revoked, and a nationwide no-bond arrest warrant was issued in October 2018.

In March of this year, Goodman was being held in a Kentucky prison, and was extradited back to Iowa. He was transferred back to Floyd County on March 18 by the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office.

A hearing on the probation revocation was set to be held today (Tuesday), but because hearings are being held by telephone conference because of COVID-19, the hearing was moved up to April 28.

Judge Newell found that Goodman had violated the terms of his probation, and sentenced him to the original term of up to five years on each count, with credit for time served in Kentucky.