Crime & Safety

Driver-side Mirror Apparently What Thief Wanted: Fridley Police Blotter

Someone removed a mirror from someone else's vehicle.

Here are items selected from information provided by the Fridley Police Department:

March 3: 

  • An officer disposed of an empty shaving kit and shirts covered in blood and vomit that someone left at a bus shelter at University and 61st avenues NE. 
  • Police checked on the welfare of a female who had drunk-dialed a friend, but she was not in crisis. 
  • Thieves stole the driver-side mirror from a vehicle in the 5600 block of University Avenue NE, causing damage to the vehicle. 
  • A resident of the 7600 block of Bacon Drive NE told police she has no idea who was tapping on her bedroom window in the night. 
  • Police picked up an abandoned bicycle in the 700 block of 53rd Avenue NE. 
  • Officers couldn't find who called 911 from the 6000 block of Third Street NE. When they called back, they got voicemail.

March 4:

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  • An officer responding to a report of an assault in progress at University Avenue NE Service Drive and 57th Avenue NE cited a juvenile female for curfew violation, minor consumption of alcohol and disorderly conduct, and an adult male and female for disorderly conduct. 
  • Someone stole a vehicle from the 6500 block of E. River Road. 
  • A victim said someone drove her vehicle down the street, rummaged through the interior and stole a prescription bottle containing about 50 pain killers. 
  • A complainant wanted police to remove his girlfriend from an apartment in the 100 block of 83rd Avenue NE for using drugs, but an officer determined there was no legal cause to do so. 
  • A complainant said a cashier's check went missing from the front seat of his vehicle while he was inside a gas station in the 1300 block of Mississippi Street NE. 
  • Fridley police aided Blaine police in the investigation of a robbery at a TCF Bank at 331 County Road 10 NE. K9 partner Kona tracked the suspect to fresh footprints in the snow in a rear parking lot where officers believe the suspect got into a vehicle and left the area. 

In all incidents where an arrest occurred, a charge is merely an accusation, and not evidence of guilt. The arrested person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Incidents generally appear in the order in which they were reported, not necessarily the order in which they occurred.


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