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Bureau of Criminal Apprehension

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Police did indeed give Occupiers free pot, new evidence suggests; DRE program suspended

    Last Thursday, we told you about explosive allegations made by a new video report -- that state patrol officers and county deputies have been giving drugs to young people hanging out near Peavey Plaza as part of the State Patrol's Drug Recognition Expert program.Later that day, Eric Roeske, State P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Amy Senser opening statements: Senser will testify during trial

    Amy Senser will testify during her trial on criminal vehicular homicide charges, her defense attorney revealed during opening statements. Prosecutor Deborah Russell and defense attorney Eric Nelson kept their opening arguments brief this afternoon, with each side presenting a bare outline of their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Angel statues found in bag with newborn girl in Mississippi River

    One of several angel figures found inside a bag containing a dead newborn.​After the body of a newborn baby girl was found floating in the middle of Mississippi River, cops revealed only that she'd been wrapped in a plastic bag. Now it turns out that the bag contained several items, in what seems ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Body of newborn girl found in Mississippi River; cops look for links to three other infant deaths

    Christina Hope via FlickrCops want to know if four infants found four years apart in the Mississippi have any connection.​An afternoon of boating on the Mississippi River went terribly wrong for one family this week after they discovered a strange object floating in the water. It turned out to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Nathan Kluessendorf arrested for shootout with St. Paul Park police

    Nathan Klussendorf was shot by a Washington County SWAT team sniper at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.​Nathan Kluessendorf was arrested yesterday for shooting at St. Paul Park police in a standoff Tuesday morning. The standoff started when police got a call about a suicidal person at around 1 a.m., and ended w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Minnesota state shutdown: What's open

    The deadline for a solution is tonight at midnight.​If you're planning your Fourth of July weekend, you should keep in mind what will or won't be available if the state government shuts down on Friday. In total, 75 different state agencies will be affected, with 46 set to shut down altogether. Wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    2C-E: Timothy Richard Lamere charged with third degree murder in mass overdose

    Police say Timothy Lamere took the same 2C-E that killed Trevor Robinson-Davis.​The Anoka County attorney has officially charged Timothy Richard Lamere with third-degree murder for his role in a mass 2C-E overdose.According to the criminal complaint, Lamere provided the drug that lead to 19-year-o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2011

    Timothy LaMere arrested for distributing 2C-E that caused mass overdose

    Timothy Lamere is set to be charged with third degree murder on Monday.​Blaine police have arrested 21-year-old Timothy Richard LaMere for supplying the hallucinogen 2C-E that caused 11 people to overdose, killing one.He will be formally charged with third degree murder in the death of Trevor Rob ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    2C-E: Trevor Robinson mourned after overdose [UPDATE:Police arrest suspect]

    Trevor Robinson leaves behind a 5-month-old son after overdosing on 2C-E.​As some of the victims of a mass 2C-E overdose are leaving the hospital, more details are emerging about what happened before 19-year-old Trevor Robinson died. "Trevor's the kind of guy where he likes to up his friends and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Gay teen Lance Lundsten's death ruled a suicide

    Lance Lundsten's death has been ruled a suicide.​When Lance Lundsten, a gay high schooler from Miltona, died in January of this year, his death was initially reported as a suicide. The news rocketed around the internet -- another gay teen who took his life after reported bullying at the hands ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2011

    Bob Fletcher Terrorism Briefs

    Ramsey County sheriff releases records to City Pages

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Bob Fletcher provides missing terrorism briefs to City Pages

    City PagesFletcher provided these terrorism briefs to City Pages to prove he wasn't lying​Former Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher has given City Pages a batch of documents he says are some of the terrorism briefs he has been accused of lying about creating.The documents--some marked "Confidentia ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    DNA Nation

    Anoka County demanding DNA samples from suspected welfare cheats

  • News

    September 29, 2010

    Minnesota's Most Wanted Criminals

    Have you seen these fugitives?

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Tri-County Regional Forensic's bad math means 11 bogus DWIs

    ​The screw-ups at the Tri-County Regional Forensic Laboratory who inflated the blood-alcohol content in urine samples over the last year got nearly a dozen innocent people charged with drunk driving.The cause of the error wasn't some malfunction in sophisticated equipment or contaminated lab appar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    15 Minnesota sex offenders on the loose, Facebook to the rescue

    ​Well, Minnesota authorities have given up on finding 15 fugitive sex offenders, so they are hoping you can do the work for them. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) and nine counties say they are 15 sex offenders in north-central Minnesota who aren't complying with the Minnesota's P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Shakopee cops shoot fatal-stabbing suspect dead after carjacking

    Photo: wetwebworki​A deadly suburban crime spree ended with gunfire this morning in a Shakopee highway ditch after police shot and killed an as-yet unidentified 34-year-old male suspected of a convenience store robbery, a carjacking and a fatal stabbing. The Shakopee Valley News is reporting ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2009

    Prominent columns by Nick Coleman disappear, law targets cowboys

    Blotter covers the weird Twin Cities news fit to print

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    School bus driver holds 11-year-old hostage on the bus

    The driver admits "he had feelings he did not want to act on and that he needed help," according to a criminal complaint filed this week in Hennepin County court.

  • News

    January 24, 2007

    Gangs of St. Paul

    In the capital city, a generation of younger, harder, more randomly violent gangsters wage war on themselves

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2006

    Crime blotter: always save your receipts

    In the capital city, a generation of younger, harder, more randomly violent gangsters wage war on themselves

  • News

    December 21, 2005

    Little Court of Horrors

    In Anoka County juvenile court, meth and red tape are playing hell with the fate of children

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    How's He Doing?

    In just eight months, chief Bill McManus has alienated the media, the pols, and the MPD rank and file. He must be doing something right.

  • News

    June 16, 2004

    Weathering the Storm

    MPD chief William McManus on his early tenure

  • News

    February 25, 2004

    MPD Scandals, Continued: A Primer

    The Duy Ngo case: McManus bets the farm; Will Olson land on the hot seat?

  • News

    January 7, 2004

    Wheeler Dealer

    How Minnesota cops and the war on drugs made a successful entrepreneur out of a small-time hustler and snitch named Michael Felix

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    The DNA

    Hennepin county faces a huge case backlog

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Dragnet

    A new computer database system called CriMNet is supposed to revolutionize crime fighting in Minnesota. Cops, politicians, big business, and the media love it.

  • Books

    July 3, 2002

    Case Not Closed

    While the Supreme Court scrutinizes a DNA test, the wheels of justice cease to turn

  • News

    May 15, 2002

    Blame the Victims

    Laura Goodman-Brown, Minnesota's crime-victims ombudsman, is about to become a victim herself. And she says it's a crime.

  • News

    January 30, 2002

    Freedom Fighters

    Coming to a capitol near you: The Patriot Act Junior

  • Books

    June 13, 2001

    House or Home Depot

    The city and neighborhood activists fight over a blighted corner in St. Paul

  • Books

    May 16, 2001

    High Heaven

    Chisago County says a local rabbi took her campaign to legalize medicinal marijuana one toke over the line

  • Books

    September 20, 2000

    The Longest Wait

    Two missing daughters. Two years. One lead. No answers.

  • News

    September 20, 2000

    The Final Frontier

    An imaginary spaceship. Disembodied voices. An angel/whore named Amy. Rocco Dandrea's descent into madness and death--and the mental-health system that was ill-equipped to stop it.

  • News

    July 14, 1999

    The Gene Sifters

    Never mind fingerprints--state law-enforcement officials want blood

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    The Body in Question

    Forensic pathologist John Coe has spent a lifetime examining skin, organs, and bones for answers to how and why we die

  • Books

    September 9, 1998

    Hot Pursuit

    Minneapolis police say the chase that ended in the deaths of two bystanders on I-94 was by-the-book. Some other cities are throwing out that book.

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    Not in our Backyard

    Scott Paulson was sick of his stepson's complaints about a white posse beating up his black friends. Then the phalanx of trucks pulled up on his lawn.

  • Books

    June 3, 1998

    ACOP by Any Other Name

    Community advocates say being young, Asian, and male is enough to get you in trouble with the St. Paul police

  • News

    March 25, 1998

    They Shoot, They Score!

    The Minnesota Wild hockey hoo-ha is a high-stakes political power game featuring a lineup of heavy hitters--and you can't tell the players without this City Pages program.

  • News

    November 5, 1997

    Welcome to Pine County

    Some people think crack and furniture-stripping fumes made Chuck Strobel crazy. But it was the rural peace and quiet that drove him over the edge.

  • News

    May 28, 1997

    Fall Guy

    Larry Gould was a long-time junkie on the mend in a methadone program until he was lured into a drug sting. Now he's doing five years. But he made a few undercover cops look good in the process, and that was the important thing.

  • News

    April 9, 1997

    Genes Will Tell

    Larry Gould was a long-time junkie on the mend in a methadone program until he was lured into a drug sting. Now he's doing five years. But he made a few undercover cops look good in the process, and that was the important thing.

  • News

    March 19, 1997

    Little Black Book

    Larry Gould was a long-time junkie on the mend in a methadone program until he was lured into a drug sting. Now he's doing five years. But he made a few undercover cops look good in the process, and that was the important thing.

  • News

    January 8, 1997

    The Gubernatorial Gang

    Minnesota pols never stand so tall as when they loom over black youths.

  • News

    December 25, 1996

    GLASS CEILINGS, "LOCKER ROOM CONDUCT," AND WCCO.

    Minnesota pols never stand so tall as when they loom over black youths.

  • News

    November 20, 1996

    Last Man Standing

    In the 25 years that he's served as Hennepin County's first and only chief public defender, Bill Kennedy has earned a tough-as-nails reputation for the way he defends his clients, his staff, and himself. This year he's pitted against Hennepin County prose

  • News

    April 10, 1996

    Laying Down the Laws

    In the 25 years that he's served as Hennepin County's first and only chief public defender, Bill Kennedy has earned a tough-as-nails reputation for the way he defends his clients, his staff, and himself. This year he's pitted against Hennepin County prose

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