Someone's Stuff Found Frozen into 2-foot Block: Fridley Police Blotter

An officer responded to a report of found property in the 5400 block of Altura Road NE. The officer found a frozen block of clothes, CDs and books approximately two feet by two feet in size, but it wasn't clear what else was inside the block. The officer brought the block to headquarters for thawing, drying and entering into found-property records. 

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

March 15:

• Police arrested one of the people involved in a verbal domestic dispute inside a taxi in the 5200 block of Central Avenue NE on two warrants. 
• Officers found a suspect in a theft reported in the 7400 block of East River Road but the victim business refused to press charges. Suspect cited for careless driving. 
• An officer spotted a male running from SuperAmerica, 7299 Highway 65 NE, and into a waiting vehicle with no lights on. Police stopped the vehicle, found a carton of stolen cigarettes inside, and took the driver and passenger to jail. 
• Police responding to a report of a male with a gun behind a school in the 1400 block of Gardena Avenue NE checked the area thoroughly and determined the report was probably an embellishment. 
• Police arrested a male for shoplifting a small gas torch at Menards, 5351 Central Ave. NE, found that he had also failed to register as a predatory offender and was in possession of methamphetamine and a meth pipe.
• Police charged two females for driving off without paying for gas from the Holiday station in the 5600 block of Hackmann Avenue NE in a vehicle with stolen license plates. 
• An officer found a Minnesota license plate in the snow in the 5600 block of Hackmann Avenue NE. 
• Someone smashed every window of a vehicle in the 1400 block of 73rd Avenue with fist-sized rocks. 

March 16:

• An unknown male suspect tried to enter a single-family home in the 500 block of Rice Creek Terrace NE but a resident scared him away. 
• Three girls directed police to a City of Mounds View Fire Marshal/Building Official gold-and-silver badge on the ground in the 74 block of West University Avenue NE Service Drive. 
• Police used a master key from the fire box to open the door to an apartment in the 400 block of Mississippi Street NE in which a young child was locked in. 

In all incidents in which 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.