Robbery

Mpls 2012 violent crime stats: Day after they make news, another murder is reported

Yesterday, the preliminary 2012 violent crime stats for Minneapolis were reported far and wide and everywhere in between.SEE ALSO:-- Downtown Mpls: Robberies first half of 2012 have more than doubled compared to last year -- Mpls mob beatings: Couple describes 7th and Marquette attack, first of two ... More >>

Officer reportedly shoots carjacking suspect at New Hope gas station; arrest made in Mpls

Details are emerging about a carjacking and officer-involved shooting that culminated with the arrest of a suspect in the Uptown area of Minneapolis around 7:15 a.m. this morning.SEE ALSO: Gangster Disciples have hits out on Twin Cities cops following fishy officer-involved shootingAccording to KARE ... More >>

Mpls parks cop stabbed near Minnehaha Creek; suspect shot [UPDATE]

A Minneapolis Parks Police Officer was stabbed in the upper torso near Minnehaha Creek while investigating a robbery call last night. The female officer, who police say they'll name tomorrow, was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center for the wound, as well as lacerations to her head. The officer' ... More >>

Andre Steward and Willis Richardson murdered Mpls homeless man for $5, police say

Andre Steward told police he "needed some money to have a good time." His way of getting it? Beating a homeless man to death for the $5 bill in his pocket.Yesterday, Steward, 17 (he's being tried as an adult), and Willis Richardson, 23, were charged with second-degree murder in connection with the J ... More >>

Janet Hall's boobs lured man into St. Paul alley, where he was robbed and beaten

Janet Hall used her goods to do a very bad thing.Hall, a 31-year-old St. Paul resident, pleaded guilty yesterday to aggravated first-degree robbery after she used her boobs to lure a 50-year-old man into an assault and robbery.On May 2, the man had just left Wild Tymes bar in downtown St. Paul where ... More >>

Botched robbery at Franklin Avenue Library leaves innocent victim paralyzed

An as-of-yet-unidentified man was visiting the Franklin Avenue Library on Wednesday afternoon with his wife when he was approached by a would-be robber in the bathroom.The victim resisted the robber and a struggle ensued. Eventually, the victim pulled away from the robber and attempted to flee, only ... More >>

Minneapolis police use DNA sample to track down robbery/sexual assault suspect

Minneapolis police apparently did some nice work in tracking down a suspect allegedly responsible for a May 24 robbery and sexual assault on the 1600 block of Fremont Avenue North.On that night, a female victim called police and said that while sleeping she was awoken by a knife-wielding stranger. T ... More >>

Minneapolis police believe same two suspects behind 13 recent south side armed robberies

Minneapolis police, already grappling with a string of mob beatings downtown, now apparently have another scary crime spree on their hands.Investigators believe the same two semi-automatic-handgun-brandishing men are responsible for 13 South Side armed robberies since March 21.All but two of the inc ... More >>

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 >>

Hassan Farah robbed a bank so he could go to prison or get deported

Not a fan of the song, "Take the Money and Run." ​Hassan Farah is trying to save money on meals or a plane ticket. So he robbed a bank. Not to get the money, but to get caught and sent to prison or deported back to Somalia.Farah walked in to a downtown Wells Fargo bank on Friday and handed the tel ... More >>

Nyron Sheldon Hackett faces trial as an adult in Powderhorn Park sex assault case

Nyron Sheldon Hackett will face the music as an adult.​Sixteen-year-old Nyron Sheldon Hackett is accused of using a gun while leading a robbery and sexual assault on a woman in Powderhorn Park last Thanksgiving Eve -- as the woman's children watched in horror. From there, police say he and h ... More >>

French Meadow Bakery robbed by armed suspects

Police caught one suspect who lives a few blocks from the bakery.​Police are still looking for one of two men they believe robbed Uptown's French Meadow Bakery last night. Two masked men--at least one armed--came into the bakery on the 2600 block of Lyndale Avenue S. around 10:40 p.m., police ... More >>

Mayfair Mall stunned by teen rampage and gun shot

Screenshot of people filing out after management closed the mall.​A mob of teenage vandals trashed the Mayfair Mall in suburban Milwaukee last night and forced officials to close the mall early. Police confirmed this morning that at least one shot was fired outside the mall during an attempt ... More >>

Carlos Harris and Ronald Moore indicted in Dunn Bros armed robbery

Ronald Moore and Carlos Harris​Carlos Maurice Harris and Ronald Harold Moore are in even deeper trouble with the law. Both had violent criminal histories the day they allegedly pistol whipped a barista and robbed an Uptown Dunn Bros coffeehouse two months ago. Their felonious pasts, on top ... More >>

Macarr Tyree Hill charged in Powderhorn Park assaults

Photo: Thirteen of ClubsPowderhorn Park residents are determined to keep their neighborhood safe.​While most of us were safe at home last Wednesday evening, getting ready for a long Thanksgiving weekend, three women were fighting off sexual assaults from a gang of teenage thugs in and near Pow ... More >>

Ronald Moore and Carlos Harris charged in violent Dunn Bros robbery

Ronald Moore, left, and Carlos Harris​Ronald Harold Moore and Carlos Maurice Harris were formally charged today in Wednesday's pistol whipping and robbery at an Uptown Dunn Bros coffeehouse. Moore, 47, and Harris, 38, each face one felony count of first degree aggravated robbery and two count ... More >>

Timothy Carson sentenced for cop-turned-robber spree

Timothy Carson​Ex-Marine Timothy Carson is an Iraq war veteran, and a former Washington County corrections officer and Minneapolis police SWAT member. Carson is also a convicted bank robber and small-time stick up man. And yesterday he was sentenced the second time for his crime spree earlier ... More >>

Kyle Arthur Milhaupt robbed a Dairy Queen with a bomb threat

Kyle Milhaupt is in a Dilly Bar of a pickle after robbing a Dairy Queen.​Kyle Arthur Milhaupt's cool treats were definitely melting away when he came up with this one. It was date night for Milhaupt and his fiance Kerri Nicole Bean, and -- since life is short -- he suggested that they get des ... More >>

Ex-cop Timothy Carson sentenced in Apple Valley bank robbery

Timothy Carson will spend eight years behind bars​Timothy Carson, an Iraq war veteran and a former Minneapolis cop, left no doubt in anyone's mind yesterday that he was guilty as charged in an Apple Valley bank robbery last winter -- and sorry. The judge made it clear at the sentencing that Ca ... More >>

2 Wisconsin men bring toy gun to Maplewood bank robbery. Bad move

Photo: jontintinjordanAt least no one got shot when two Wisconsin men robbed a bank with a toy gun​The cops are probably happy that Wisconsinites Andrew J. Larson and Derek Lombard pulled off an April bank heist in Maplewood by brandishing a toy gun. No officers got shot in the process of chas ... More >>

Illiterate Joe Nathan Michael arrested in Fridley bank robbery

Photo: hydra artsBank robber or ESL candidate?​Poor Joe Nathan Michael. According to police, the 47-year-old man showed up recently at the TCF Bank outlet in Cub Foods on 57th Avenue N.E. in Fridley, passed a note to the tellers demanding cash. He got $1,991 in cash. He got caught. And he ... More >>

Peter Erlinder escapes Rwandan jail only to be mugged in St. Paul

​Peter Erlinder is having a rough summer.The William Mitchel law professor, freshly released from a Rwandan prison after being charged with minimizing the country's genocide, has only been back in Minnesota for less than a week. But his luck doesn't seem to have changed.According to St. Paul polic ... More >>

Allen Ronald Hall suspected in 16 Walgreens armed robberies

Allen Ronald Hall​If the cops are right, Allen Ronald Hall has been a busy man of late -- with a gun. He's being held in the Hennepin County jail on $100,000 bail, arrested after allegedly robbing a Walgreens store on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis, but he's suspected of pulling the same hei ... More >>

Sgt. Joe Bergeron's alleged killer pleads not guilty

Joshua M. Martin​Joshua M. Martin, charged with gunning down Maplewood police Sgt. Joseph Bergeron earlier this month after a carjacking gone bad, has pleaded not guilty in Ramsey County District Court. Martin, 21, was on supervised prison release when he and another guy named Jason John Jon ... More >>

Former Minneapolis cop Timothy Carson indicted in bank heist

If he's convicted, he could face decades behind bars.

Tax fraud gone wrong leads to robbery, shooting death

It appears that last week's fatal shooting of Orlando Nunn stemmed from anger over a botched IRS fraud, and it doesn't count as the 7th murder in Minneapolis this year.

Former Minneapolis cop Carson charged in five more robberies

The charges are piling up for Timothy Carson, a former Marine and Minneapolis police officer.

Teen stabbed in Minneapolis was college-bound

A teen who died early Saturday was an American Indian who had just been accepted to college.

Ex-employee robs Culver's in mask, is recognized by worker

A former Culver's employee in Marshall, Minn. thought it would be easy to rob a place he used to work for. Fail.

Gun in face, bank teller refuses to hand over cash

What's more, it worked.

Banks: Wis. thieves, leave your disguise at home

"Point Break"-style robberies will never have the edge again.

Man stole laptop and frozen bagels from neighbors's homes, police say

A robber that breaks into his neighbors home multiple times and decides to take some food for the road? Now we like this guy.

Another man shot during backyard BBQ robbery, this time in St. Paul

Police are looking for connections between two robberies at Minneapolis backyard BBQs this weekend and another Monday in St. Paul.

Sign of the Times: Ex-student bank robber said he needed to feed his kids

He passed along a note that read: "I'm sorry for doing this. Give me all the money in your drawer. My kids need the food, I have no money."

Man calls police about hostage situation, cops find his pot-growing operation

Yet another set of dudes to add to 'America's Dumbest Criminals' list.

Bank robber admits he tried to hide from police under couch cushion

We always thought we could outsmart the cops just by hiding under couch cushions. Genius.

Police on the hunt for druggie Walgreens robber

Minneapolis police are looking for Adam William Ivers -- a guy who robbed two pharmacies in Northeast over the past week.

Kid pricked student's fingers for science experiment, freaks out parents

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James P. Taylor; Kathleen Murphy-Taylor

Robbers on High Street: Grand Animals

Getting detention for poor penmanship

Crime blotter: let's play hockey!

Crime blotter: Mother always said "Never stick a gun in someone's face if you're not prepared to use it"

Crime blotter: bad bet

Hack Attack

For cabbies, the mean streets keep getting meaner

Under Color of Law

A racially charged ethics case travels all the way from Anoka County to the state supreme court

Johnny's Last Song

Hennepin County's favorite informant faces the music

Stool Pigeon Redux

His trial was a comedy of errors, but the man Johnny Edwards fingered for murder isn't laughing