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March 14, 2011
Michael John Husten is a TCF bank robber
Michael John Husten robbed TCFMinneapolis police say 60-year-old Michael John Husten is a TCF Bank robber. Unfortunately, Husten is not that TCF robber. Since January, TCF Bank has been hit with robberies four times--three within a single week. Husten was charged Friday with robbing a Minneapol ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Gregory Scott Tyler and Orlando Ray Vasquez are TCF Bank robbers
Minneapolis PDCops says this is Orlando Ray Vasquez robbing a TCF teller.The Feds say Orlando Ray Vasquez, 40, and Gregory Scott Tyler robbed TCF bank on West Lake Street on Feb. 28. But they're not that bank robber. Vasquez and Tyler just bothered with one bank in St. Paul. The man who rob ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
Stephanie Smith ID'd as fourth Minneapolis homicide victim of 2011
The woman shot dead Monday night in South Minneapolis has been identified as 21-year-old Stephanie Smith. The MCTC psychology student was riding in a car on Park Avenue South with an unidentified man when someone opened fire from another vehicle. Minneapolis police were already responding to ... More >>
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April 12, 2011
Nick Ayers, Pawlenty's new campaign manager, was charged with drunk driving in 2006
kennesaw.eduNick Ayers, Pawlenty's new campaign manager.At this point, you've got to wonder if Tim Pawlenty has a thing for guys who drink and drive. Less than a week after his Iowa staffer Ben Foster attempted to break into an unsuspecting Iowa family's home, puked on the lawn, and then pla ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Michael Lewis Johnson accused in two Ford Parkway bank heists
Caught on camera, Feb. 3.After the robber strolled into the TCF Bank branch on Ford Parkway on Feb. 3 in broad daylight, right under the gaze of security cameras, we speculated that he either didn't care whether his moves were recorded, or he just wasn't very smart. Turns out both observations m ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Dave MacLaughlin is Pawlenty's third drunk-driving hire
Dave MacLaughlin, from his days in city government.Tim Pawlenty's campaign is hiring drunk drivers so consistently that you have to wonder if it's one of his application criteria. Today, Pawlenty named a number of operatives to his New Hampshire steering committee, including Dave MacLaughlin ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Man dies after North Minneapolis shooting
Minneapolis police say that a man found shot and unresponsive late Wednesday, on the 3800 block of Emerson Avenue North, died of his wounds yesterday at North Memorial Medical Center. MPD spokesman Stephen McCarty had no information this morning about the man's identity. The Homicide Unit i ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Keontrell Govan's shooting death: Ishmael Rashad Moore, Dashaunta D'Mar Gomez charged
Ishmael Rashad Moore and Dashaunta D Mar Gomez, both 17, have been charged in the shooting death of 18-year-old Keontrell Govan. Police found Govan with a bullet in his head last Wednesday afternoon in the alley behind the Church of St. Bridget in North Minneapolis. Medics rushed him to Nort ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Derreck Griffin, minister, arrested in Kristopher Miller's shooting death
Kristopher Miller was a popular North High staffer.Minneapolis police have arrested 40-year-old Derreck Griffin, an associate pastor at True Vine Missionary Baptist Church on the city's north side, in connection with Kristopher Miller's shooting death early Tuesday morning. Griffin, who is ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Derrick Griffin, minister, charged with murdering Kristopher Miller
Kristopher Miller was shot dead on May 11.Derrick Griffin, an associate pastor at the North Side's True Vine Missionary Baptist Church, has been charged with murdering North High School staffer Kristopher Miller, who was found shot dead in front of his home last week. Griffin, 40, was arrested l ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Watch Nick Ayers, Tim Pawlenty's presidential campaign manager, get arrested for DWI [VIDEO]
Nick Ayers as he would like you to see him.It was well known, even before Tim Pawlenty hired him to manage his presidential campaign, that Nick Ayers was pulled over and arrested for DWI in 2006. What hasn't been available for the public to view, until now, is the dash cam video of that arrest. ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Liz Neuman's family settles with Arizona sweat lodge owners
Liz Neuman's family has settled with the owners of the retreat where she diedThe owners of the Arizona retreat where Liz Neuman died after a sweat lodge disaster directed by a New Age guru have settled a civil lawsuit filed by her family. In October 2009, the Prior Lake woman was one of three p ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
Man shot and killed in south Minneapolis
An unidentified man was shot and killed early this morning in south Minneapolis, in the 5700 block of Sander Avenue, which is a few blocks north of Highway 62 and the perimeter of Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. Minneapolis police say the man was alice when they reached him, and ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Edward Trondell Baker ID'd in latest south Minneapolis homicide
Edward Trondell Baker has been identified as the man who was shot early Tuesday in the 5700 block of Sander Avenue, just a few blocks north of Highway 62 and the perimeter of Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. The Hennepin County medical examiner said the 24-year-old man died of multipl ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Ben Van Handel wasn't Timothy Bakdash's intended target on the night he died
It was just last week that Timothy Ayman Bakdash was indicted on first degree murder charges in the death of Benjamin Van Handel. But the narrative of why Bakdash ran the U of M student down and killed him has changed considerably. Van Handel apparently died in a case of mistaken identity.
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May 31, 2011
Six injured in five Minneapolis shootings
>Tony WebsterMinneapolis cops were busy Sunday night and Monday morning.Two men are in life-threatening condition and four others were injured after a spate of Minneapolis shootings leading into Memorial Day. Two of the shootings happened south of downtown, on Nicollet Avenue South, on Sunda ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Guled Hashi Mohamed's family pleads for murder witnesses to come forward
Somebody must have seen something helpful to police when Guled Hashi Mohamed was gunned down on Nicollet Avenue Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend, and his family held a vigil yesterday where he was shot to plead for help bringing in Mohamed's killer. "My son was brought here at a young ag ... More >>
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June 3, 2011
Biyamin Beiti Omar charged with murdering Guled Hashi Mohamed
Guled Hashi Mohamed was sitting in the passenger seat of a car parked at Nicollet and 18th the night before Memorial Day when a man ran up to the window from behind and put a bullet through Mohamed's temple. Biyamin Beiti Omar was the gunman, the Hennepin County Attorney's office said this a ... More >>
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June 5, 2011
Man stabbed to death after brawl outside Schooner Tavern
One man was stabbed to death and another was arrested after a brawl that started outside the Schooner Tavern in South Minneapolis early Sunday morning. Minneapolis police and paramedics were called to the scene in the 2900 block of 27th Avenue South at about 12:30 a.m., where the victim was ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Dean Schmitz stabbed to death outside Schooner Tavern
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has identified 47-year-old Dean Schmitz, of Richfield, as the man who was stabbed to death early Sunday morning near the Schooner Tavern in south Minneapolis. Minneapolis cops and paramedics found him alive at about 12:30 a.m. on the 2900 block of 27th Av ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Chrishaun Reed McDonald charged in stabbing death of Dean Schmitz
Chrishaun Reed McDonald, who was taken into custody the night Dean Schmitz was stabbed to death last weekend in south Minneapolis, has now been charged with second degree murder. The 23-year-old man's booking photo hasn't been released yet. He's being held in Hennepin County jail on $500,000 ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
North Minneapolis shooting leaves one man dead, another injured
Minneapolis police officers found a man shot dead in an alley behind the 2700 block of Humboldt Avenue North last night, and another man shot but alive in an adjacent home. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office will release the dead man's identity and official cause of death later, M ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Chrishaun McDonald, Dean Schmitz's accused killer, allegedly reacted to transgender slur
Chrishaun McDonald was charged last week with stabbing Dean Schmitz to death near the Schooner Tavern in south Minneapolis, and now there may be a clue as to why. Although 23-year-old McDonald is being charged as a man, he's transgender, and he got into a fight with 47-year-old Schmitz, who taun ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Darrell Fisher ID'd as homicide victim on Humboldt Avenue
Twenty-two-year-old Darrell Fisher has been identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner as the man who died late Monday night in a shooting on Humboldt Avenue North. Police found him an adjacent alley. Another man was found shot but alive in a nearby home, but his injuries are describ ... More >>
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June 18, 2011
Dominic Felder's family awarded $2.1M by Minneapolis in wake of police shooting
Dominic Felder, left, was shot dead in 2006.The Dominic Felder police shooting saga appears to have finally come to a close, with news that the City Council has voted to approve paying the dead man's family $2.19 million. It's been more than four years since the 27-year-old man was shot dead ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Jeff Anderson sues Missouri abbey for sexual abuse 'coverup'
AndersonAdvocatesAnderson has filed thousands of abuse lawsuits.Twin Cities attorney Jeff Anderson filed a civil suit yesterday accusing a Missouri-based abbey of covering up sexual abuse by a former monk. Anderson is famous for his tireless pursuit against abusive priests and church coverup ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Man gunned down in south Minneapolis dies at HCMC
Police got to the scene of a shooting in south Minneapolis last night in time to keep the victim alive long enough for an an ambulance ride to Hennepin County Medical Center, but he died this morning. The medical examiner's office hasn't made the victim's name public yet.
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July 11, 2011
David Raisch-Day, teen from Cass Lake, ID'd in latest homicide
David Raisch-Day, an 18-year-old from Cass Lake, has been identified as the man who took a bullet in the head in last Thursday night's homicide in south Minneapolis. Police say he was standing among a group of people outside a home on the 2700 block of Longfellow Avenue South when shots were ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
Christopher Tarell Clark arrested for murder of Darrell M. Fisher
Hennepin County mug shotPolice have arrested 19-year-old Christopher Tarrell Clark on suspicion that he killed a man in north Minneapolis last month. When Minneapolis cops arrived in the 2700 block of Humboldt Avenue North on June 13, they found 22-year-old Darrell Fisher lying dead in a nearby ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Salli Schultz charged with murder in baby's death
Schultz is charged with murder, and operating a daycare without a license. Salli Schultz has been charged with murder in the death of an eight-month-old baby she was supposed to be taking care of. Schultz, of Lindstrom, was watching Brooke Kowarsch on Jan. 19 when the baby suffered a traumatic ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Shea Stremcha identified as South Minneapolis murder victim
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office has identified Shea Stremcha as the victim of a homicide in South Minneapolis.Stremcha, 25, was shot to death in his own home just after 3 a.m. Wednesday. It's unclear whether Stremcha was targeted or killed at random.Police originally told KSTP that ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Three shot in north Minneapolis, two involve bikes
Shooter, victim rode bikesGunfire rang out three times last night in north Minneapolis, wounding three males--two of them under the age of 18. Both incidents involving juveniles also included bikes. An unnamed 15-year-old was shot by someone on a bicycle, and an unnamed 17-year-old was riding ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
St. Paul Park man shot after all-night standoff, firefight with police
Washington CountyThe Washington County SWAT team joined the firefight at 3 a.m.A man was shot and taken away in an ambulance early this morning, ending an all-night police standoff in the 1000 block of Summit Ave. in St Paul Park.St. Paul Park police were originally dispatched to the railroad tra ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
Bill Pulkrabek pleads not guilty in domestic assault case
Bill Pulkrabek: This is the face of an innocent man.Bill Pulkrabek, the alleged drunk, neurotic, cat abusing, girlfriend-hair-dragging former campaign manager for Michele Bachmann pleaded not guilty to domestic assault yesterday. Pulkrabek, who is credited with launching Bachmann's political care ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Minneapolis teen hit twice in bike-by shooting
Police say the shooting took place on the 2200 block of Dupont in north Minneapolis.A 17-year-old was shot twice in north Minneapolis Sunday by a group of teenagers who escaped on bikes. The bike-by shooting took place on the 2200 block of Dupont Avenue north around 3:30 p.m, says Minneapolis po ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Charles Hall charged with stealing everything from everyone
Charles Hall was on a roll until he got caught.Charles Hall came to our attention three weeks ago, when he was arrested on burglary charges. At the time, police said Hall might actually be responsible for dozens more burglaries that had taken place across Minneapolis in July and August. Now, the ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Brett Rogers pleads guilty in domestic abuse case, faces five-year sentence
Brett Rogers made a plea deal on third-degree assault. Brett Rogers, the St. Paul product who shot to the top of the mixed martial arts world in 2009, continued on his rapid decline yesterday when he pleaded guilty to third-degree assault charges for an attack on his wife.Rogers was arrested in l ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Jawon Osburn identified as latest juvenile homicide victim
Jawon Osburn has been named as the 16-year-old victim of a gunshot homicide that happened Monday night.Osburn, identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, was found shot on the 2900 block of Dupont Avenue, and declared dead on the scene after paramedics were unable to resuscitate him. Osb ... More >>
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October 3, 2011
Steven Hendricks and Kewon Johnson called a cop to ask if they could buy weed
Steven Hendricks, Kewon Johson: Worst cell phone plan ever.Kewon Johnson and Steven Hendricks need to make sure they have the right number before they hit SEND. Around 11:30 last night, a St. Cloud cop sitting in his squad car noticed his cell phone ringing with a number he didn't recognized. Whe ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Rainbow Foods fires store manager Scott Ostrom, who was stabbed
Rainbow Foods in controversy over store manager firing.Rainbow Foods store manager Scott Ostrom was fired a week after the man who stabbed him was sentenced to prison. Ostrom had been store director at the Midway Rainbow Foods in St. Paul on May 9 when Russell Terry Johnson stabbed him in t ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Meet the Minnesota Vikings All-Arrested team
By Andy Mannix and Mike Mullen This week began with a bit of news that finally gives cause to celebrate the Minnesota Vikings: Since 2000, the Vikings are leading all other NFL teams in arrests. This was too good to be ignored, or judged on its face. So City Pages has gone deeper, investigating ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
Felix Pedraza arrested for fatal shooting of Francisco Hernandez at Halloween Party
Felix Pedraza is the lead suspect in a case of a weekend party that resulted in the fatal shooting of 21-year-old father of three Francisco Hernandez. Minneapolis police were called to a south Minneapolis apartment complex, where they found a man, later identified as Hernandez, suffering from gun ... More >>
Movies
November 2, 2011
Eddie Murphy in Tower Heist
Movie doesn't amount to much but steals a lot of laughs
News
November 9, 2011
Mille Lacs Ojibwe fighting violent offenders with banishment
Native Mob gang terrorizing Minnesota reservation
News
November 30, 2011
The Boy Scouts' Police Problem
Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should Scouts share the blame?
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December 14, 2011
Jeremy Giefer charges dismissed as victim recants sexual assault allegations
Jeremy Giefer's sexual assault charges were dropped todaySexual assault charges against Jeremy Giefer were dropped this morning following the victim's recantation.Giefer was scheduled to go on trial next Monday on charges he raped his daughter multiple times over the years. Assistant Blue Earth ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Minneapolis: Violent crime continues to decrease
Violent crime in Minneapolis has fallen dramatically since 2005. Minneapolis is "Murderapolis" no more. The number of violent crimes in Minneapolis fell 6.3 percent last year from 2010, reaching a 28-year-low, according to statistics published today by the city.
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January 31, 2012
Annie Stensrud, KEYC Mankato "drunk broadcast" anchor, charged with DWI
Anne Stensrud was nearly four times over the limitAnnie Stensrud has been charged with a DWI in connection with a December arrest for drunk driving. Stensrud became a national celebrity in early December after slurring her way through the opening of a news broadcast for KEYC Mankato, a CBS-F ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Native Mob takedown: a closer look at the charges [PHOTOS]
The federal indictment names 24 suspected Native Mob members.Over the past two weeks, local and federal law enforcement agencies have been collaborating on a statewide takedown of the Native Mob. As we first reported in our November cover story, "The Banishing," the Native Mob started in sou ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Benito Hernandez Romo Jr. allegedly steals car during job interiew
Benito Hernandez Romo Benito Hernandez Romo Jr. was looking for a job when he stole a car, prosecutors say. Romo was in Apple Valley for a job interview when he took someone else's car for a joyride. According to police, the car's rightful owner parked his car at a train station in Apple Val ... More >>
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