Photo courtesy of Ely Echo.ELY, Minn.-A veterans memorial in Ely was been vandalized late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Five crab apple trees planted at the head of the Trezona Trail, were broken and tipped over. The trees were part of a vets memorial there. Police are continuing to investigate the incident. Categories: Crime, News, News – Latest News…
CLEVELAND-Pennsylvania State Police say the suspect in the random killing of a Cleveland retiree posted on Facebook has shot and killed himself after a brief pursuit. State police say Steve Stephens was spotted Tuesday morning by state police in Erie County, in the state’s northwest corner. Authorities say police tried to pull Stephens over and, after a brief pursuit, he…
DULUTH, Minn. – A man convicted of shooting into a crowd nearly two years ago is in trouble with the law again. On Friday, the St. Louis County Attorney charged 21 year-old Levi Miller with being a felon in possession of a firearm and receiving stolen property. In September 2015, Miller was convicted of 2nd degree assault for firing several…
DULUTH, Minn.-Local authorities arrested Levi Miller, 21, of Duluth, yesterday for being a felon in possession of a firearm and receiving stolen property. Miller’s bail has been set at $50,000 for the crimes – both of which are felonies. Miller was on probation when he was arrested for the second-degree assault conviction, which is connected to a shooting incident in…
Joseph JakubowskiMILWAUKEE – Sheriff’s officials say a man suspected of stealing firearms from a gun store and sending President Donald Trump an anti-government manifesto has been arrested in southwestern Wisconsin. The Rock County Sheriff’s Office says 32-year-old Joseph Jakubowski was captured around 6 a.m. Friday near Readstown, Wisconsin. The sheriff’s office said in a statement that he was captured without…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota officials say nearly 40,000 children were suspected of being abused or neglected in the state last year, a 25-percent increase from 2015. Minnesota Public Radio reports the data posted by the Minnesota Department of Human Services also noted a spike in maltreatment investigations. The report didn’t detail what was behind the increase, but says…
DULUTH, Minn.-Duluth police are looking for two suspects involved in an alleged robbery at the Dollar Tree on the 300 block of Central Entrance. Employees at the store said a firearm was displayed during the incident. The first suspect is being described as a black man in his late 20’s. He’s believed to be six-feet tall with a skinny build…
DULUTH, Minn. – A wrongfully convicted former prisoner spoke with students at the University of Minnesota-Duluth about his experience. Nathson Fields spent eighteen years in prison, including twelve on death row, before he was exonerated for a double murder he did not commit. Now he spreads awareness about wrongful convictions and why he believes the death penalty should be abolished. “We…
Erik Akervik BURNSVILLE, Minn. (KMSP) – A Burnsville High School music teacher was arrested Monday on suspicion of having explicit electronic communications with a student. The school district said they received a complaint about Erik Akervik last Saturday and immediately began an investigation. Police were notified that the teacher “had been communicating with a student electronically and the communication contained…
At today’s County Board meeting, St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman presented Life Saver Awards for seven separate incidents that occurred during 2016. DULUTH, Minn. – St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman recognized citizens, law enforcement, and other emergency personnel today for all their hard work over the last year. Life Saver Awards were presented today at the County Board meeting,…
(AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Students dove under desks when a man walked into his estranged wife’s elementary school classroom and opened fire without saying a word, killing her and an 8-year-old student and wounding a 9-year-old before fatally shooting himself, authorities said. Some six weeks earlier, 53-year-old Cedric Anderson was a newlywed calling his 53-year-old…
DULUTH, Minn.-A Duluth man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for distributing 15 kilos of methamphetamine, possessing an unregistered machine gun, and being a felon with a firearm. Morgan Baumann, 36, had previously pleaded guilty to the aforementioned charges. During the police’s investigation, they found Baumann with 25 firearms including two machine guns, a sawed-off shotgun, body armor,…
DULUTH, Minn.-The 26-year-old victim of a stabbing at the apartment building of the 100 North Block of 30th Avenue West Sunday, has been upgraded to stable condition. Duluth Police do not have a suspect in custody. Police were called to the building at 4 a.m. after hearing reports of fighting in a hallway. Law enforcement is continuing to investigate the incident….
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP- FOX 9) – The lone surviving suspect in last week’s triple homicide in St. Paul, Minnesota has been released from custody after prosecutors said they needed more time to determine the extend and nature of his role in the shooting. The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office did not file charges on Monday and instead sent the case…
DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force executed a search warrant on the afternoon of April 6, in the 1500 block of East Superior Street in the City of Duluth. The search warrant was a result of an investigation into the suspected sale of heroin at that address. During the search, investigators located approximately six…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (FOX 11) –Â Four people were shot Monday in an apparent murder-suicide inside an elementary school classroom in San Bernardino, including a teacher and two students, police and school officials said. Two students were airlifted to a hospital after what’s believed to be a domestic dispute, San Bernardino City Unified School District spokeswoman Marria Garcia tells news media…
Joseph Jakubowski prior booking photo (left) and surveillance photo (right) taken on April 4 at 1p.m. at the Mobil Gas Station, 1215 Milton Avenue, Janesville, Wisconsin. JANESVILLE, Wis. – Authorities say a man suspected of stealing firearms from a Wisconsin gun store who sent an anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump, and has threatened to carry out an unspecified attack…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The state Appeals Court is affirming a judicial panel’s decision to grant a man’s provisional discharge from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program. Monday’s decision comes in the case of 74-year-old Eugene Kropp, who was committed in 1998 after a history of molesting boys. His provisional discharge was granted last year. Authorities appealed, saying Kropp’s provisional release plan…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) – Four people are dead and one person was seriously injured during a shooting in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota early Friday morning. A toddler was also taken, but officers and a K9 safely recovered the girl as police were in the process of preparing an AMBER Alert. The shooting took place around 1…
STOCKHOLM (AP) – Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says everything indicates that a truck which has crashed into a major department store in downtown Stockholm is “a terror attack.” Photos at the scene in downtown Stockholm show that the truck, which killed several people, is a large beer truck. The Aftonbladet daily says Swedish beermaker Spendrups said its truck had…
Kontrell Brown DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force, along with the Superior Police Department, and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, executed a search warrant on a motor vehicle and 22-year-old Kontrell Elander Drake Brown of Chicago following an investigation into the sale of heroin. Duluth Police Department The search warrant was executed in Duluth, and during…
DULUTH, Minn. – A stabbing in Duluth’s Lincoln Park neighborhood has sent two victims to the hospital. Duluth Police responded to a call in the 3400 block of Grand Avenue Tuesday evening on reports of the incident. Officers remained on the scene for some time trying to determine what occurred, and searching for individuals involved. The initial investigation has determined that…
Jeronimo Yanez ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Â Defense attorneys are pushing to move the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer charged with fatally shooting a black motorist last summer. Attorneys for St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez argued in court Tuesday, that the officer cannot get a fair trial in Ramsey County, where Philando Castile was shot, because of…
DULUTH, Minn. – A stabbing in Duluth’s Lincoln Park neighborhood has sent two victims to the hospital. Duluth Police responded to Winnipeg Avenue and Sixth Street Tuesday evening on reports of the incident. Officers remained on the scene for some time trying to determine what occurred, and searching for individuals involved. Categories: Community, Crime, News, News – Latest News…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Months after Gov. Scott Walker called on the Legislature to take swift action to combat the state’s opioid epidemic, the state Assembly has passed nine pieces of Legislation. The Assembly, on Tuesday, passed all but two of 11 bills Republican Rep. John Nygren wrote based on recommendations from Walker’s opioid task force, which he co-chairs. The…
HIBBING, Minn.-A 19-year-old Hibbing man has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in a 2016 homicide on the Iron Range. Sean Powers was sentenced today to aiding an offender after the fact of death. Powers helped clean-up the crime scene after his roommate, Jaysen Greenwood, was murdered in Hibbing. Dylan Gilbertson, 19, is serving 35 years…
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) – Andrei Kibitov, spokesman for the St. Petersburg governor, has told Russian television 10 people have been killed and 50 injured in a subway explosion. Video footage posted on social media website shows a train with mangled doors standing at the platform. Russian Senator Viktor Ozerov tells Interfax that the explosion looks like a terrorist attack….
DULUTH, Minn. – Community members had a chance to show their support for local law enforcement officers. The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police hosted their 4th Annual Spring Fundraiser at Grandma’s Sports Garden in Duluth. Attendees enjoyed a full buffet, and had the chance to win donated raffle and silent auction items while backing local police officers. “”They know the…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A man suspected in a string of fatal northern Wisconsin shootings that ended in a shootout with police has died. State Department of Justice spokesman Johnny Koremenos says 45-year-old Nengmy Vang died about 1:28 a.m. Saturday. Investigators say Vang got into a domestic incident with his wife and went to the Rothschild bank where she worked on…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Lawyers for sex offenders confined indefinitely to Minnesota’s secure treatment program have asked a judge to stay all further proceedings while they ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appeals court finding that the program is constitutional. U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank declared the program unconstitutional after phase one of the case in 2015 because only…
Timothy DorwayPhoto: Carver Co. CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) – Authorities have filed more charges against a one-time Minnesota high school principal accused of possessing child pornography. Forty-five-year-old Timothy Dorway now faces 17 counts. He appeared in court Thursday but didn’t enter pleas. He declined comment to reporters. Dorway was the principal of Chanhassen High School. He was arrested in December after…
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Mid-afternoon on Thursday, March 30, around 3:47 p.m., the Itasca County Sheriff’s Dispatch received a 911 call of a medical emergency in the 1300 block of 4th Street SE, according to the Grand Rapids Police Department. Facebook Personnel arrived within four minutes and found David Krauss, 29, dead inside the residence from a gunshot wound, as well…
DULUTH, Minn.-All five suspects in the February murder of UMD student William Grahek were in court today. Deandre Davenport, 21, was charged earlier this month as the sole person who shot Grahek twice in a robbery attempt. Noah Baker, 19, and 18–year–old Noah King, both were charged with attempted robbery and second-degree murder in relation to the case. Baker was recently facing a…
Victor Barnard RUSH CITY, Minn. (KMSP) – An inmate of the Rush City, Minnesota prison said he “was doing God’s work” when he allegedly assaulted convicted cult leader Victor Barnard in a cell. Shane Michael Kringen, Shane Kringen 44, was charged Thursday in Chisago County with one count of first-degree assault. According to the criminal complaint, prison video surveillance shows…
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. (AP) – The Minnesota State Patrol is looking for the driver who allegedly fired at another vehicle in a road rage incident in the eastern Twin Cities. Authorities say the incident started about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at westbound Interstate 694 and Highway 120 in White Bear Lake. The patrol says the suspect was exiting White Bear…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) – A Minneapolis man who triggered an Amber Alert this week is now charged with assault for allegedly stabbing the child’s mother. Twenty-six-year-old Hersley Hulbert faces two felony counts of assault. He makes his first appearance in court Thursday afternoon. Police were called to a south Minneapolis home Tuesday morning because Hulbert allegedly was assaulting his ex-girlfriend….
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) – Authorities in Minnesota say the dangerous drug carfentanil is to blame for five recent overdose deaths. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that’s 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl. According to information from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, carfentanil is often disguised as heroin and has been blamed in recent…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Attorney General Brad Schimel is telling the Legislature’s budget committee that the state Department of Justice is sending 200 untested sexual assault kits to a lab per month. Schimel appeared before the Joint Finance committee on Wednesday to answer questions about DOJ operations and how Governor Walker’s 2017-19 budget would affect the agency. More than 6,000…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) – Â Criminal charges were announced Wednesday in an international human trafficking and prostitution enterprise that prosecutors called “the Uber of sex trafficking.” The crime ring involved numerous victims and thousands of ads placed on Backpage.com in 29 different states over the past two years. Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said the crime ring used phones to…
Jesse Dady, 21, last seen on Saturday, March 25 in downtown St. Cloud ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KMSP) – Police now believe missing St. Cloud State University student, Jesse Dady, may have fallen off a railroad bridge into the Mississippi River. Dady, 21, of St. Cloud has been missing since early in the morning on Saturday, March 25. Recently obtained surveillance…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin state Senate committee is considering a package of anti-crime bills, including three that would impose harsher punishments on youth who commit crimes. The proposals up for a hearing Wednesday, could land more children in Wisconsin’s youth prison for a wider range of crimes and keep them there longer, despite an ongoing FBI investigation into…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota man who was wrongly named a person of interested in the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling is suing authorities. Dan Rassier filed his federal lawsuit Wednesday. He was publicly named as a person of interested in 11-year-old Jacob’s abduction in 2010 after his central Minnesota farm was searched by authorities. Rassier maintained his innocence…
UPDATE: The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced on Wednesday, March 29, that 13-year-old Gary Tilander was found safe in North Dakota. The Bemidji Police Department said in a press release that a concerned citizen contacted the International Falls Police Department with a tip regarding the possible location of Gary. The tip was relayed to Bemidji PD and the…
DULUTH, Minn. – A St. Louis County jury needed only an hour of deliberation on Tuesday before finding a Chicago man guilty of possessing heroin with intent to sell on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation, according to St. Louis County Attorney Mark Rubin. Antionio Darrell Holmes, 29, was convicted of first-degree possession of heroin and a first-degree sale of…
Hershel Hulbert MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Authorities say a toddler has been found safe and his noncustodial father is in custody after stabbing the boy’s mother and taking the child. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension issued an Amber Alert Tuesday morning, asking for help in locating the father and 2-year-old child. Police say the 26-year-old man stabbed his ex-girlfriend in…
DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating 77-year-old Gerald “Zeke” Harvey Fields. On Monday, March 27, the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office was contacted about a possible missing person. Fields had been staying with the reporting party, and had been gone since Saturday, March 25. He left behind his belongings, including…
UPDATE: The Amber Alert has been cancelled, Hulbert has been located safe, and according to authorities the suspect has been arrested. MINNESOTA – Minneapolis police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing toddler. Police are looking for 2 1/2 year old Harlen Hulbert, after he was taken by two men. One of the men stabbed his mother and has…
MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) – The Minnesota man accused of killing a University of Wisconsin Stout Cullen Osburn student from Saudi Arabia, has pleaded not guilty to charges. Cullen Osburn is charged with felony murder and aggravated battery in the death of Hussain Saeed Alnahdi. The 24-year-old student died from a brain injury last October following an altercation in downtown Menomonie….
DULUTH, Minn. – On Thursday, March 23, investigators from the Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force executed a search warrant at an apartment in the 10 block of East 4th Street in Duluth. The search warrant was a result of an investigation into the sale of controlled substances, specifically cocaine by a male at that address. During the…
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (FOX 10 KSAZ) – Border Patrol says they arrested a man and found $54,000 hidden inside tortilla dough at the Port of San Luis. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the 54-year-old Mexican man was arrested after the cash was found hidden inside the tortilla dough in an ice chest in the back of his van. In…
