Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Seven counts filed Tuesday against a Coon Rapids man do not include allegations at the Coon Rapids YMCA just north of Fridley that an earlier sheriff's statement mentioned. But further charges are possible, said an Anoka County Attorney spokesperson.
A Coon Rapids man who police arrested March 2, 2013, on suspicion of using a wristwatch camera to take digital images of boys undressing at YMCAs in Coon Rapids and Andover now faces seven counts relating to child pornography and stalking. Anoka County prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against Robert Dennis Minor, 53, on Tuesday. The complaint alleges that Minor's videos caught not only the images of nude and partially nude boys but also his own image, reflected in locker room mirrors. Andover and Coon Rapids YMCAs? The charges are based on activities they allege to have happened at the Andover YMCA and on child pornography that police say they found on computers at Minor's home in Coon Rapids. The Emma B. Howe YMCA just north of …
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The 'jury would have looked at it and thought it was strange,' she says of images police claimed showed Columbia Heights man's movements in Fridley store.
Images from Walmart store video that Fridley police said showed a Columbia Heights man tracking girls then groping one as she stood next to her mother were "key to getting him to plead guilty," according to an Anoka County prosecutor. Last week Nathan William Charles Jones' case was scheduled to go to jury trial. Instead, he entered a plea of guilty to the crime with which he was charged: second-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony. "A jury would have looked at it and thought it was strange," said Assistant Anoka County Attorney Amy Reed-Hall in an interview two days after the hearing. Sentencing is set for March 27, 2013. A scheduled psychosexual evaluation will be crucial to determining his sentence, Reed-Hall said. Under law, …
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Read it here: Police narrative from criminal complaint against Matthew Thomas Kennedy. He faces one count of aggravated first-degree robbery in Coon Rapids Kay Jewelers case.
A Fridley man now faces a charge first-degree aggravated robbery in what police say was a strong-arm jewelry store heist on Dec. 30 at Kay Jewelers in Coon Rapids. At the store, a salesperson showed him a 1.56-carat diamond ring worth $15,599, Matthew Thomas Kennedy "suddenly grabbed the ring, yanked it off of her finger, and ran out the door," according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday. To read the full statement of probable cause from the criminal complaint, click on the PDF thumbnail above. Kennedy's yank broke the store employee's finger, according to a statement from the Anoka County Attorney's office. If found guilty, Kennedy could get a sentence of as many as 20 years in prison and a fine of as much as $35,000. Kennedy was …
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
See the charges of attempted murder of an unborn child and domestic abuse against Kenneth L. Turner.
Anoka County prosecutors say a Fridley home was the scene of "shocking" crimes last week—a man beating his pregnant ex-girlfriend and trying to kill the fetus she was carrying. Kenneth Lakewood Turner faces two counts: Attempted murder in the first degree of an unborn child, and domestic assault. He remains in jail with bail set at $500,000 bail. His next court date is May 14, 2012. Read the criminal complaint against Turner here by clicking here or on the PDF thumbnail above. Look for a separate post soon at Fridley Patch with comments from Fridley police, the Anoka County Attorney, and Turner's public defender. Note: The original complaint identified the woman's initials and gave her home address as the site where prosecutors say the …
