Man gets 6 years in prison for sexual battery outside City-County Building in downtown Indy

INDIANAPOLIS — A man has been sentenced to over half a decade in prison after pleading guilty to several felonies in connection with a sexual assault last year in downtown Indianapolis.

Cody Wing Mason, 29, was recently sentenced to six years in the Indiana Department of Corrections after pleading guilty last month to felony counts of criminal confinement, sexual battery and resisting law enforcement.

Indianapolis Metro police officers were called just before 12 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2024, to assist with a man who was resisting arrest. The man, later identified as Mason, had reportedly been seen assaulting a woman outside the City-County Building when bystanders and police intervened.

The victim told officers that Mason was acting erratically and had “followed her repeatedly” before starting to inappropriately touch her. Once officers arrived, they said Mason refused to comply while being arrested.

After Mason pleaded guilty to the felonies in June, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office argued for and was granted the maximum penalty of six years in prison. According to Mason’s plea agreement, the sentence is “open” with at least two years to be served in IDOC.

Online court records show Mason has an extensive criminal history in Indiana that includes charges of domestic battery, battery resulting in bodily injury, battery in the presence of a child, intimidation and forcibly resisting law enforcement.