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  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Supreme Court ruling means Tom Petters is still a fraudster

    The Supreme Court won't review Tom Petters' conviction, according to a document released by the court. Petters asked the court to review his 2009 conviction for running a $3.65 billion dollar Ponzi scheme. He appealed the conviction on the grounds that lower courts inappropriately barred Petters' a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Luke Jacob, Hi-Lake Liquors owner, failed to report $486,000 to IRS

    Luke Jacob, owner of Hi-Lake Liquors, pled guilty yesterday to federal tax evasion. Jacob admitted that he filed a false tax return for 2008 and failed to report over $486,000 in taxable income to the Internal Revenue Service. That cost the IRS more than $75,000, according to the United States Atto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Two Minneapolis firefighters embroiled in drug charges

    Lawrence Wajda, the Minneapolis firefighter charged with meth possession last week, was placed on administrative leave Sunday, says Matt Laible, spokesman for the city of Minneapolis. Wajda was arrested while working at a firehouse in Stadium Village last Tuesday. Upon searching Wajda, Minneapolis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Timothy LaMere agrees to 10-year sentence for friend's 2-CE overdose

    Timothy LaMere, the 22 year old charged in the first-known 2-CE overdose death, agreed to a state-maximum 10-year prison sentence in court Thursday. LaMere was charged with third-degree murder about a year ago after supplying the synthetic drug to a group of friends, causing 11 overdoses, including ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Luke Jacob, Hi-Lake Liquors owner, charged with tax evasion

    Luke Jacob, owner of Hi-Lake Liquors on East Lake, was charged with federal tax evasion earlier this week. Last summer, Jacob filed a 2008 tax return in which he failed to include to the tune of $468,000, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office.

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Eric Bower eludes feds one month after Native Mob crackdown

    It's now been a month since federal authorities began rounding up Native Mob members across the state, and one man continues to elude them. Eric Lee Bower, one of 24 suspected gang members named in a lengthy indictment, is still on the lam. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorneys Office declined to comm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Derek Wayne Brown sentenced to eight years for 500 grams of cocaine

    Derek Wayne Brown, a 43-year-old Minneapolis man, was sentenced to eight years in prison today for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams of cocaine. Brown was released from jail in 2008 after serving 14 years for first-degree assault. In November 2010, he and eight others were indicted fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Mille Lacs Ojibwe judge suspends banishment order, calls ordinance overly 'vague'

    In summer 2008, facing an unprecedented rise in violent crime, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe resurrected the ancient practice of banishment. The Central Minnesota tribe has since exiled a handful of its members, and planned to do the same with a list of other repeat offenders on the reservation. B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Native Mob takedown: a closer look at the charges [PHOTOS]

    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 south Minneapolis in the '90s, and has since established a national rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Eric Bower still wanted in Native Mob federal crackdown

    Eric Bower is one of 24 suspected Native Mob members named in a recently unsealed indictment.​Authorities are still trying to round up one suspected Native Mob member in a federal, multi-jurisdictional crackdown on the Minnesota-based gang, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office. Last night, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Native Mob takedown by feds shuts down Minnesota prisons

    For more on the Native Mob, read our November 9 cover story, "The Banishing."​All Minnesota prisons were shut down from 4 a.m Tuesday to 5 a.m. yesterday morning as part of a federally orchestrated, multi-jurisdictional takedown on members of the Native Mob gang. In total, 24 suspected Nativ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Five men indicted in plot to transport hockey bags full of weed into Twin Cities

    The drugs were flown into a Blaine airport on a Mooney M20 single-engine airplane. ​A drug plot that involved flying hockey bags full of weed into the Twin Cities using a single-engine plane has led to five men being indicted, according to federal court records unsealed this week. The five ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Cathy Haukedahl, new director of MN Legal Aid, bracing for tight budget

    Meet the new e.d. of Legal Aid​Minnesota Legal Aid has a new director: veteran attorney and former state solicitor general Cathy Haukedahl--and already, she's bracing for potential impact from the Republican budget. "The Legislative proposals indicated slight cuts for the court system," Haukedahl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Little Joe Gustafson charged with 14 counts, racketeering

    Little Joe Gustafson, leader of the Beat Down Posse, was booked into jail this morning​Joseph Duane "Little Joe" Gustafson, a North Minneapolis man who terrorized his neighborhood for years, is being charged today with 14 felony counts: racketeering, assault, making terroristic threats, kidnap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    German Robles-Garcia's felony kidnapping spree ends badly

    Dakota County, Nebraska, SheriffSteal money from Robles-Garcia and he will chase you down.​The Minneapolis man recently sentenced to 50 years in federal prison turns out to be a former Mexicali policeman who used his sleuthing skills in a vengeance kidnapping. German Robles-Garcia, 29, was sentenc ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2010

    The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

    Dakota County, Nebraska, SheriffSteal money from Robles-Garcia and he will chase you down.​The Minneapolis man recently sentenced to 50 years in federal prison turns out to be a former Mexicali policeman who used his sleuthing skills in a vengeance kidnapping. German Robles-Garcia, 29, was sentenc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Two indicted in $2.5M Twin Cities mortgage scam

    ​Two people were indicted in federal court today for allegedly orchestrating a $2.5 million mortgage scam. The FBI investigated the case. Fawaz Mahmoud Wazwaz, 33, and Genevieve Marie McCullough, 32, of Inver Grove Heights, were charged with a eight counts of mortgage fraud. According to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Patrick Thornton's strange Costco encounter with Denny Hecker

    The Finance and Commerce writer said, "It was probably best I kept my mouth shut and moved along. Who knows what I would have said?"

  • News

    October 7, 2009

    City Councilwoman Lisa Goodman wants it her way

    Known as the "second mayor," she controls downtown development

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Tom Petters fraud: Sixth person charged

    A sixth person has been charged in the Petters Group Worldwide ponzi scheme that allegedly bilked investors of several billion dol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Petters indicted on charges of conspiracy, fraud... finally!

    Now Tom Petters got the indictment to match his hot orange suit.

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    More "anarchists" busted for RNC disruption plans

    Now Tom Petters got the indictment to match his hot orange suit.

  • Feature

    February 13, 2008

    Nothin' But Trouble

    Yachts, Cadillacs, even a party bus...real estate was a great racket—until the lawsuits started piling up

  • News

    May 2, 2007

    The Fall of the House of Tucker

    After his son committed murder, a retired St. Paul cop had to choose between blood and justice

  • News

    March 21, 2007

    Not Quite Ready for His Close-Up

    A local prof rides the Gonzales Eight to fame, but there are holes in the research

  • Books

    August 1, 2001

    The Third Man

    Unmasking the unidentified businessman at the center of the Brian Herron brouhaha

  • News

    July 12, 2000

    P.O.'ed

    Jean Sandberg asked her post-office bosses to put a stop to the penis jokes and the wet T-shirt invitations. They sent her complaint to the dead-letter office.

  • News

    April 5, 2000

    Purple Stain

    Securities scams, karaoke-bar brawls, and the occasional boozy ride: At least there's one championship the Vikings might be winning

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    The Yo-Yo Files

    Why did it take three investigations, two trials, and one year of legal ups and downs to convict Alfred Flowers of sassing a cop? He may never know: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and the FBI have declared the records top-secret.

  • News

    September 9, 1998

    Off Beat

    Why did it take three investigations, two trials, and one year of legal ups and downs to convict Alfred Flowers of sassing a cop? He may never know: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and the FBI have declared the records top-secret.

  • Feature

    June 1, 1998

    GLBT hate-crimes rising, study says

    Why did it take three investigations, two trials, and one year of legal ups and downs to convict Alfred Flowers of sassing a cop? He may never know: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and the FBI have declared the records top-secret.

  • News

    July 9, 1997

    Officer Down

    Typically, prosecutors would be all over a case involving someone suspected of trying to run down a cop

  • News

    January 29, 1997

    "Suburban Seven" Defendant Skips Bail

    Typically, prosecutors would be all over a case involving someone suspected of trying to run down a cop

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