Crime & Safety

Lover's Triangle Erupts in Spat at Mini Storage: Fridley Police Blotter

Brothers shared interest in young woman, meth.

Police responded to Minnekhada Mini Storage Police, 5350 Industrial Blvd. NE, on June 21 because an argument over a lover's triangle that included two brothers and a young woman was causing alarm and disturbing other customers. All three admitted to being addicted to methamphetamine. Police issued two citations for disorderly conduct and if any of the parties return they will be trespassing.

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

  • A complainant didn't know how the back window of her car came to be broken June 20 in the 5700 block of Second St. NE. A resident said it was from a stone thrown by a lawn mower but the person mowing denied it.
  • A June 20 complaint about a large number of used tires being stored outside of a business in the 8200 block of Main Street NE checked out. An officer told a man who said he was selling the tires to move them due to city ordinance.
  • A June 20 caller said a suspicious man stopped his vehicle in front of her house in the 1200 block of Norton Ave. NE and offered her son, who had just fallen off his bicycle, some ice cream. 
  • Someone tipped over garbage cans and did damage to the wood structure of the main pavilion at Locke County Park on June 21.
  • A resident of the 7300 block of Lyric Lane NE reported someone in a passing vehicle shot out car windows with a pellet gun on June 21 then screeched off. 
  • A driver learning to drive with an instruction permit drove over a curb in the 200 block of Mercury Drive NE and hit the fence at a residence. The vehicle's owner agreed to pay for the damage and the driver agreed to practice driving in parking lots first before hitting the streets again.
  • Someone dumped TVs and computer monitors on the north side of Dave's Sport Shop, 1021 E. Moore Lake Drive NE on June 21.
  • Two juveniles taking photos June 21 on the Matterhorn Drive NE bridge over I-694 prompted a police response on a reportee's suspician that they might jump. 
  • A suspicious person in Altura Park said June 22 he went there to speak to his former girlfriend and didn't want his current girlfriend to know. 
  • Two of three boys who knew where a key was hidden entered a house in the 7500 block of Lyric Lane NE on June 22; two were taken to juvenile detention on suspicion of burglary and the third was trespassed from the property. 
  • Police responded to a report of an unknown, naked man in a customer's room at LivInn Suites, 5201 Central Ave. NE, on June 22. Allina took the man, who was unconscious, to the hospital.
  • After a complainant picked him out of a photo lineup June 22, police sent a theft citation to the last known address of a male suspected of leaving Applebee's restaurant, 5277 Central Ave. NE, without paying for $42.35 in food and drink. 
  • A complainant reported a neighbor coming onto his property to take photos. The neighbor acknowledged taking photos but denied being on the property in the 6100 block of Woody Lane NE, and police advised him to stay off the property.

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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