Crime & Safety

He Didn't Have Her OK to Take That Kind of Photo: Fridley Police Blotter

And that wasn't all that was on his phone.

A Fridley police officer responded to the 200 block of 57th Avenue NE on a report of a male taking photos of other people without their permission. The officer saw photos of one female's backside, as well as many other explicit photos, on the suspect's phone. The officer issued the suspect a citation for disorderly conduct and then jailed him on an outstanding warrant from Hennepin County.

Here are other incidents selected from weekly reports of the Fridley Police Department.

Sept. 14, 2012, 11 a.m.: CCTV caught a suspect walking away from the Fridley Middle School cafeteria with a student's football shoes. An officer located the shoes and returned them to the owner. No charges filed.

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Sept. 15, 2012, 9:09 a.m.: Officers checked a foreclosed house in the 5900 block of Third Street NE for possible squatters as reported by a mail carrier. The house was secured and appeared unoccupied, and air coming out of a vent appeared to be from the furnace and not a dryer.

Sept. 16, 2012, 2:09 p.m.: A male and a female had an air rifle at the archery range at Locke Park. An officer observed the air rifle in its case and advised the pair about the dangerous-weapon ordinance. The officer brought the air rifle to the owner's vehicle and turned it back to him there, seeing that it was placed in the trunk.

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Sept. 17, 2012, 7:20 p.m.: CVS Pharmacy called police when a male suspected of stealing two bottles of body wash earlier in the day returned. The officer cited the male for theft and cited another mail for an open-bottle violation.

Sept. 18, 2012, 8 p.m.: A caller reported that someone had entered his apartment in the 1200 block of 72nd Avenue NE and stolen two flat-screen TVs.

Sept. 19, 2012, 8:06 a.m.: A caller reported that someone damaged his van overnight while it was parked on the street in the 1300 block of Fireside Drive NE and stole a nylon book of children's DVDs.

Sept. 20, 2012, 1:30 p.m.: A male detained for shoplifting at Menard's put up a struggle in the security office. He had also parked in a disabled parking stall, misusing a disable placard. Police cited and released the suspect.

Sept. 21, 2012, 8:35 p.m.: Someone broke into a vehicle at the Good News Hmong Baptist Church, 1280 Regis Ln. NE, by breaking a window and took a bag of clothes belonging to the complainant's wife.

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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