Orange City, Iowa — A Rock Valley man was sentenced in Sioux County District Court Monday for Perjury, a Class D Felony; and Gathering where Controlled Substances are Unlawfully Used, a Serious Misdemeanor.
Sioux County Attorney Thomas Kunstle says that the case against 46-year old Clarence Earl Werner of Rock Valley, arose during a civil protective order hearing on February 2nd of this year. Kunstle says Werner’s ex-wife testified that Werner violated the no contact order by calling her on December 23, 2014. Werner confirmed this by testifying under oath that he did call her one day when he was in treatment. Werner was later criminally charged with a Violation of a No Contact Order and the trial was held April 7th of this year. Kunstle says that, after being placed under oath at the criminal trial, Werner gave conflicting testimony that he did not call his ex-wife.
Werner was sentenced to five years in prison on the Perjury charge and to 365 days in jail on the Gathering charge, where he will serve 45 days with work release and the prison term and remaining jail time was suspended.
