Ramsey County Sheriff's Department

City Pages nominated for 23 SPJ Page One Awards

The Page One Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists honor the best in journalism from across Minnesota, and we're proud to say that we've been nominated for 23 awards in this year's contest.The 23 nominations cover work from 2011 and match the number of nominations we received last ye ... More >>

Suicide Files: Bob Fletcher's domestic dispute

​This week's cover told the story of the life and death of Ramsey County Sheriff's Deputy Dan Ruettimann, and the file of documents he specifically left behind for this City Pages reporter.The documents mostly detail Ruettimann's domestic troubles and an Internal Affairs investigation that resulte ... More >>

Deputy Dan Ruettiman's suicide rocks Ramsey County Sheriff's Department

Bob Fletcher foe left files detailing his struggle for justice

Watch Tom Lyden's Fox9 report on Deputy Dan Ruettimann [VIDEO]

​In this week's cover story on the suicide of Ramsey County Deputy Dan Ruettimann, we mentioned a story on Fox9 that impacted the deputy in the months leading up to his death this past October.The story said that Deputy Ruettimann was under an Internal Affairs investigation for conduct unbecoming ... More >>

Benjamin Bryan Newton ID'd as child killed at chiropractor: Memorial fund established

NewtonFamilyFund.comBenjamin Bryan Newton, the little boy tragically killed at the chiropractor​The family of Benjamin Bryan Newton, the little boy killed last week as the result of a tragic accident at a Shoreview chiropractor's office, has set up a memorial fund. Donations will help pay fo ... More >>

Toddler dies under Shoreview chiropractor's table

chattgroup.comThe Triton DTS TRT-600 weighs 300 pounds​This is just awful. An 18-month-old boy died yesterday as a result of a tragic accident in a chiropractor's office while his mother lay strapped to a table, unable to save her son. The boy crawled under the treatment table at First Chiroprac ... More >>

Intelligence analyst mocks former Sheriff Bob Fletcher's terrorism briefs

Former Sheriff Bob Fletcher's terrorism briefs are still coming back to haunt us.​When Dean Baratta, an intelligence analyst for the state of New Jersey, first read that City Pages had obtained and posted "terrorism briefs" created by the Ramsey County Sheriff's department, he was excited to view ... More >>

Bob Fletcher Terrorism Briefs

Ramsey County sheriff releases records to City Pages

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 >>

RNC 8 final four reach plea deals and avoid prison

Photo courtesy Friends of the RNC 8Garrett Fitzgerald, Max Specktor, Nathanael Secor and Rob Czernik​Two years after they were arrested in a gun's-drawn raid by the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department, Rob Czernik, Max Specktor, Garrett Fitzgerald and Nathanael Secor of the RNC 8 have reached p ... More >>

Susan Mukuhi Mwarabu, Northfield teacher, goes all Mike Tyson in greasy spoon

Meet Susan Mukuhi Mwarabu, a 30-year-old sixth grade teacher at Northfield Middle School by day, greasy spoon ear-biter by night.

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St. Paul street fight ends in death

Police have identified the man who died early Sunday in a street fight outside a St. Paul bar. Tai Yang died of head trauma. He was 20 years old.

Anarchists compile 'Top 9 Myths of the RNC'

Police raid anarchist homes in advance of RNC

Infiltration programs aided the pre-emptive strike

Vicious Cycle

Critical Mass chaos may be a preview of the Republican National Convention

Grudge Match

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher and former St. Paul Police Chief Bill Finney both have long and proud histories in St. Paul policing circles—and reputations for political heavy-handedness. Observers say they're alike in many ways. Is that why the

Son of a Chief

What ever became of St. Paul cop Jon Loretz's bar brawl? Nothing.

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.

Holding The Line

911 operators answer the phone 1,000 times a night. But what if the line goes down?

Silent Scream

A series of teen rapes shocks local Hmong parents into confronting a new culture: their children.

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