Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The teenager was tackled by a 270-pound SuperAmerica customer in Rogers.
Updated (3:45 p.m. Wednesday): The Fridley teenager alleged to have robbed a Rogers SuperAmerica Tuesday evening with a handgun had bad luck in his getaway plan and found himself tackled by a 6-foot-3, 270-pound former Milaca High School and Central Lakes College defensive end named John Dyker. Dyker told the Star Tribune that he suspected the 17-year-old was "up to no good" from the moment the teen entered the gas station with a bandana covering his face. Dyker watched from outside the store as the teen robbed a female clerk, he said. He blocked a door with his van and told another bystander to call the police. When the teen left the store, Dyker was ready. "I did my best John Randle imitation and plowed him over," Dyker told the Star …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
He claims gunman ordered him to help rob Osborne Rd. store, according to the criminal complaint.
The man charged with armed robbery of an Osborne Road store June 14 said he did it because his accomplice, who he knows only as "Joker," also threatened him with the gun. That's according to the criminal complaint Anoka County prosecutors filed against Steven Eugene Daniels, 45, of Minneapolis. Daniels faces two counts: Authorities arrested Daniels after stopping the car he was driving a second time in Fridley within minutes of the alleged holdup. (The car drove off after deputies pulled it over the first time on Highway 65, according to the Anoka County Sheriff's Office.) The other man got away—despite a massive manhunt with K-9 search teams and a State Patrol helicopter that lasted more than three hours and involved the State Patrol, …
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Store owner said armed robbers took cash, iPad; no one hurt.
Update (2:35 p.m. Friday): After the armed robbery of the Tobacco and Grocery store on Osborne Road Thursday evening, at least six law enforcement agencies came together in the manhunt that led to the arrest of one of the two suspects. The Anoka County Sheriff’s office, already in the area for a Columbia Heights traffic enforcement detail, took the lead in the case, and police officers from Columbia Heights, Spring Lake Park, Coon Rapids and Blaine assisted with monitoring the perimeter of the manhunt, according to Fridley Police Captain Bob Rewitzer. A State Patrol helicopter searched the area for an hour-and-a-half but did not assist in locating the suspect, who is now in police custody. Update (10:30 a.m. Friday): After what the owner …
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Jimmy Earl Matthews faces possible life sentence for robbing Columbia Heights store.
A Fridley man who pled guilty Friday to robbing Totem Superette in Columbia Heights last year with a .38 revolver could face a life sentence, according to the office of the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota. Jimmy Earl Matthews, 34, admitted in federal court Friday that he used the gun to rob the store on March 11, 2011, then fled on foot when he met police on his way out. Under a plea agreement, Matthews will get a minimum of seven years in prison, but U.S. District Judge Joan N. Ericksen could give him the maximum: a life term. The U.S. Attorney's news release about the plea credits the police departments of Fridley and Columbia Heights, as well as the Anoka County Sheriff's Office and crime lab. The Crime This is how federal prosecutors …
Friday, December 16, 2011
Terry Lamar Roberts, 23, of Fridley and Theodore Julius Collins, 26, of Minneapolis, were sentenced to 16 and seven years in federal prison, respectively.
A Fridley man was sentenced to 192 months in prison on Dec. 14 after U.S. District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank convicted of him of possession of a firearm to commit a violent crime and robbery in connection with the armed robbery of an E-Z Stop gas station in Jan. 2011. According to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Terry Lamar Roberts, 23, of Fridley, pleaded guilty in April to robbing the gas station at gunpoint and fleeing the scene in a waiting vehicle driven by Theodore Julius Collins, 26, of Minneapolis. Collins was sentenced to seven years after being convicted of possession of a firearm to commit a violent crime and admitting to driving Roberts to the E-Z Stop on Jan. 12. The release also says, as a condition of his …
Monday, May 16, 2011
Under the Hobbs Act, federal prosecutors, rather than state prosecutors, can prosecute those who commit armed robbery at a business involved with interstate commerce.
Jimmy Earl Matthews, 34, of Fridley, could face life in prison after his latest charge: armed robbery of the Totem Superette in Columbia Heights on March 11, 2011. Two months after the robbery, on May 11, 2011, Matthews was charged with one count of possession of a firearm during a violent crime, one count of interference with commerce by robbery, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Under federal law, felons are prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition at any time. Matthews’ prior felony convictions include aggravated robbery in 1997, and second-degree murder in 1999. Both of these crimes happened in Hennepin County. “When we have someone who is perceived as being extremely dangerous, local prosecutors will …
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Cole cross
8:53 pm on Friday, August 17, 2012
He deserved it. People are saying he could get up to ten years more ›