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Hennepin County Attorney's Office

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Timothy Marshall pleads guilty to strangling HCMC lab technician

    Timothy Marshall, the 45-year-old charged with choking a lab technician in a hospital bathroom, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault Tuesday.Last October, Marshall jumped the technician from behind in a Hennepin County Medical Center bathroom, strangled her to the floor and began punching her in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Cory Donta Edwards, convicted of attempted murder, creates scene in Hennepin County court

    Cory Donta Edwards made a scene at the county courthouse yesterday as a Hennepin County judge prepared to sentence him for attempted murder. Judge Marilyn Kaman denied a request to sentence Edwards to less time than sentencing guidelines called for. Edwards turned and began walking toward the vacan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Brian Griffin pleads guilty to Millennium Hotel murder

    The man charged with fatally shooting someone in a Millennium Hotel room earlier this year pleaded guilty to second-degree intentional murder Wednesday. Brian Vincent Griffin, a 33-year-old from Dayton, Minnesota, was smoking meth in the hotel room with three other people last February, according t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    CeCe McDonald trial is underway

    More than 40 supporters gathered outside a Hennepin County courtroom this morning for the first scheduled trial date of Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald, a transgender woman accused of murdering Dean Alvin Schmitz outside the Schooner Tavern last summer. Though it's still in the jury selection phase, the ... More >>

  • News

    March 21, 2012

    Hennepin County court gap cycles out mentally ill offenders

    One man arrested or cited more than 150 times

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Chris Cook faces another felony charge

    ​One month later, Minnesota Vikings cornerback Chris Cook is finding himself in even more trouble for allegedly attacking and trying to strangle his girlfriend. The Hennepin County Attorney's Office amended the criminal complaint to include a second felony charge after the woman reported sufferin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Octavia Marberry charged, Good Samaritan free in vigilante justice killing

    Octavia Marberry is facing two felonies for her role in the muggings.​The Minneapolis Good Samaritan who caught Darren Evanocich in the act of mugging a woman and eventually shot and killed Evanovich will not be charged. That's not the case for Evanvovich's sister, Octavia Marberry. This afternoon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Chris Cook charged with domestic assault; Vikings cut Bernard Berrian

    Chris Cook is facing a felony charge for his alleged attack.​The Christian Ponder era is off to a rocky beginning. Vikings cornerback Chris Cook, arrested early Saturday after a domestic abuse incident, has now been charged with a felony for an assault that left his girlfriend crying and bleeding ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    The Minnesota Vikings are the NFL's most arrested team

    Chris Cook is on this list... twice!​The Minnesota Vikings could not pull off a miraculous comeback against the Green Bay Packers yesterday.The loss drops the Vikings to 1-6 on the season. But, as it turns out, there is one statistic in which Minnesota is leading the NFL: arrested players.Accordin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Thomas Hart, accused hater of "girl's night," charged in ferret drowning

    Thomas Hart was arrested for ruining "girls night."​Thomas Hart might have drawn a few strange looks from other inmates if anyone in Hennepin County Jail asked what he was in for.The answer is, Hart was doing time for murder. Ferret murder.Last week, Hart was arrested for the drowning death of his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Adam Sterling convicted, sentenced to life for murder of Leo Kohorst

    ​Adam Sterling, the 24-year old man on trial for the murder of October 2010 murder of his landlord, Leo Kohorst, was convicted by a Hennpin County jury this morning of first- and second-degree murder. A couple hours later, the jury came back with a life sentence for the murder.Sterling was found g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Daniel Rick convicted of knowingly spreading HIV virus

    ​Daniel Rick has been found guilty of knowingly spreading the HIV virus through unprotected sex with another man, a felony that could put him behind bars for as long as a decade. The man who had sex with Rick in the spring of 2009, when the two had known each other only briefly, told police the en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Diane Bakdash, mother of Timothy Bakdash, cleared on all charges

    ​Diane Bakdash was a nurse practitioner with a squeaky clean reputation until the night her son Timothy allegedly mowed down several pedestrians in Dinkytown, killing one. According to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, it was motherly fidelity that led Bakdash to assist her son in a hasty dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Prince Moore, charged with killing his wife, says he stabbed her 63 times in self-defense

    Prince Moore told police he woke up to his wife stabbing him.​Prince Moore told police he woke up early Tuesday morning to his wife trying to stab him. So, Moore said, he took the knife and stabbed his wife until she was beyond dead and the knife he'd used had bent from the strain, according to a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    How Minnesota became the second-highest state for mortgage fraud -- or not

    This north Minneapolis house was one of the properties featured in a 2006 fraud scam.​Minnesota is either the second-best or second-worst place to hatch your mortgage fraud scam.The Mortgage Fraud Index came out yesterday morning and ranked Minnesota second-highest in the country for incidence of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Keith Ammons charged with shooting ex-girlfriend eight times; victim survived, but paralyzed

    Keith Ammons only stopped shooting when the gun jammed.​Keith Ammons's ex-girlfriend had a date on Monday night. Because Ammons couldn't handle that reality, he has a court date -- and she will probably spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. The Hennepin County Attorney's Office filed four fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Lonell Powell and Tionne Hunter charged in murder of Shabar Hildebran

    Lonell Powell, Tionne Hunter: The alleged shooter, accomplice.​Lonell Powell and Tionne Hunter have been arrested and charged for the north Minneapolis brawl and shooting that left one man dead and another injured on Saturday.Powell, 23, is the alleged trigger man who shot Shabar Hildebran, who wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Jeron Patterson arrested for arson of Mark Dayton's former home

    Police traced Patterson with his debit card purchases.​Jeron Patterson, a 29-year-old Minneapolis man with no prior criminal record, was arrested yesterday for the arson that damaged the former home of Gov. Mark Dayton.At 2 a.m. July 2, Patterson set three different fires to the outside of the hou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Transgender suspect Chrishaun McDonald didn't kill Dean Schmitz, witnesses claim

    Chrishaun McDonald, who is transgender, stands accused of murder​Just after midnight on June 5, two groups of strangers began shouting at each other outside Schooner Tavern in south Minneapolis.A brawl broke out, and when it was over, Dean Schmitz, 47, lay in the street bleeding to death.Chrishaun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Maurice Harrison and three others face drug charges from after-hours club raid

    ​The wild details of Wednesday's early morning raid of an after-hours club at 3019 27th Ave. in south Minneapolis haven't resulted in equally wild charges, at least not yet.Police described finding alcohol, marijuana, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, and suspected ecstasy pills on the scene, as wel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    James and Wendy Ober charged with massive, $10 million mortgage fraud

    Hennepin County Attorney's OfficeThe Obers allegedly used these and other fake business identities written on the back of a cell phone.​Hennepin County prosecutors filed racketeering charges Tuesday against husband and wife real estate team James and Wendy Ober of Hudson, Wis., and two Minnesota m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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.

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Timothy Bakdash: Police refuse to release mug shots

    CaringBridgeBen Van Handel was killed after being struck by a car in Dinkytown April 15.​It was last Thursday that police arrested Timothy Ayman Bakdash and charged him with second degree murder for deliberately running his car onto the sidewalk and into three university students in Dinkytown. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Rachel Reeves's murder charges dropped after sitter flees to Mexico

    Hennepin County JailRachel Reeves is off the hook for murder--but maybe not for long.​Rachel Reeves was supposed to go to trial yesterday on charges that she killed her 15-month old, Julia Leigh Rivera, two years ago. But when a key witness--the babysitter who was with the little girl when she sto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Zachary Spader's alleged Habitat for Humanity swindle may bring more charges

    Photo by Jason Taellious, Flickr.Spader admitted to his bosses pocketing about $60,000.​Zachary Spader, formerly a manager of the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, was charged in Ramsey County this week for allegedly pocketing tens of thousands from the store. Police now say Spader could be on t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Jason Yang's 'missing organs' actually not missing, says judge

    Jason Yang climbed over a chain link fence and jumped to his death.​First, Jason Yang tragically leaps over a freeway off-ramp and falls 40 feet to his death as police chase him. Then Yang's family claims that Minneapolis Police shot him before he fell. In the latest twist of a case that has now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Amecio Navro Enge now charged with killing El Mio Ju Johnson

    ​Minneapolis police arrested and charged Amecia Navro Enge with second degree murder in October, alleging he intentionally ran over Maurice Meeks in a fit of rage. Now Enge faces a second murder charge. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner says that a second man, El Mio Ju Johnson, died from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Tim Dolan calls David Smith's Taser treatment sad but legit

    Dolan said his officers acted appropriately.​It took more than a week after Minneapolis cops shocked him into submission with a Taser for David Cornelius Smith to die of his wounds at Hennepin County Medical Center. That confrontation, at the downtown YMCA, was more than a month ago. Today, M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Chris Kallal's attorney wants to jump ship

    Lars LeetaruPolice say Kallal has lived a double life.​Grant Scott Smith -- the attorney representing Twincy co-founder Chris Kallal -- filed a motion yesterday to withdraw from his case, says Santo Cruz, Hennepin County Attorney's Office media relations representative.

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Hoax: No woman bound, beaten and thrown in car trunk [UPDATED]

    MPD learns a kidnapping story was a hoax. The four people involved said they just wanted to attract attention. The police had wasted their time.​Updated: The suspected kidnapping last night on Broadway was a hoax, Minneapolis police say, and they are not happy about it. Their reaction is below ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Ashonti Devon Allen arrested in weekend shooting death

    ​Eighteen-year-old Ashonti Devon Allen was booked into the Hennepin County Jail this afternoon for probable cause murder in the death of a man early Sunday morning in North Minneapolis, according to police. The shooting was at a home in the 3800 block of Thomas Avenue North, where one man was ... More >>

  • News

    February 24, 2010

    Paul Koenig: The One-Man Housing Crisis

    He's been dragging down property values for years, and neighbors want him out

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Minneapolis police arrest two suspects in February 4 homicide

    MPD says both men were arrested early this morning by officers from the First Precinct

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Charges filed in burglary that led to K-9 death

    A man and a woman were charged with burglary, but not with harming the K-9.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Suspect arrested in Minneapolis's 6th homicide

    Police have arrested a suspect they say may have killed 32-year-old Juan Francisco Canas Ramirez.

  • News

    April 8, 2009

    Rommal Bennett's trial revisits spate of gay murders in the Twin Cities

    Case could solve August 1996 slaying of Wally Lundin

  • News

    November 14, 2007

    Homewrecker

    Scott Sennes promised to build dream homes for his clients, but instead walked away with their money

  • News

    May 2, 2007

    Dope, Guns, and Newsprint

    The spectacular, meth-fueled collapse of Shinders, a haven for local misfits

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2006

    Party games

    The spectacular, meth-fueled collapse of Shinders, a haven for local misfits

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2006

    Three murders and one reaction

    The spectacular, meth-fueled collapse of Shinders, a haven for local misfits

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Addicted To Drug Court

    The Good News and the Bad News: Hennepin County’s drug court has cleared court dockets and steered a lot of people toward treatment. It’s also allowed the county to push thousands more casual offenders into the corrections system.

  • News

    June 4, 2003

    Trial By Color

    Minnesota courts tighten rules against race-based appeals, but it's small consolation to Dameion Robinson

  • News

    December 4, 2002

    He's Sorry

    Former gang prosecution snitch Johnny Edwards recants--sort of

  • Books

    March 27, 2002

    The Watchdog That Never Barks

    Can the county sheriff's office impartially investigate the MPD?

  • Books

    November 1, 2000

    Drinking Games

    Two high-profile convictions rekindle a debate over what to do when drunk drivers kill

  • Books

    February 23, 2000

    A Civil Reaction

    A former First Avenue bartender pursues her old employer--and three men who she claims raped her--all the way to the state supreme court

  • Books

    September 29, 1999

    Wrestling With Immunity

    Minnesota has a code of ethics for its executive branch. It just doesn't apply to the governor.

  • Books

    August 19, 1998

    There's the Rub

    Minneapolis cops and their good neighbors set sights on another south-side sauna

  • News

    January 22, 1997

    Get Out of Jail Free

    In drug- or gang-related cases, one of the favorite weapons of prosecutors is confidential informants like Johnny Edwards. Trouble is, a lot of them will say anything to get themselves out of the hot seat--and continue committing crimes while they're turn

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