Lang
7/14/19
A suspect in a 2016 brawl on Iowa City’s southeast side is back in custody after almost three years on the run.
Online records show 45-year-old Mark Mallard of Taylor Drive skipped his arraignment on an Assault Causing Bodily Injury charge in September of 2016. A warrant was issued for his arrest, and Mallard was finally taken into custody and booked into the Johnson County Jail just after 5:45 Sunday morning.
Mallard was one of several subjects involved in a 2016 brawl on Taylor Drive. Iowa City Police were called to the 2100 block of Taylor Drive five times between 4 and 8pm on July 16th of that year for large fights in progress. One man, 23-year-old Terry Madison of Pine Street, was arrested after one of the fights had ended just before 6:45pm. The alleged victim and witnesses told investigators that Madison and a group of subjects arrived at a house at 2149 Taylor Drive, where Madison allegedly walked onto the deck and punched a man in the face. The man suffered swelling to the right side of his face and was attended to by an arriving ambulance.
Just before 8pm that night officers responded to a report of a group of women attacking a subject on the 2100 block of Taylor Drive. An investigation revealed that Mallard, a resident of the house where Madison was arrested, was involved in a fight involving multiple subjects when he hit one woman with a curtain rod. The rod was later located near the scene of the attack.
Mallard reported that his niece had been attacked and he was only attempting to help her. The victim suffered bruising, redness and swelling below her left eye. Multiple witnesses reported seeing the attack.
Madison was given credit for time served on an Assault Causing Bodily Injury charge. Mallard faces up to one year in jail if convicted on the same charge.