Monday, May 16, 2011
He said he would blow the driver's brains out, the prosecutor alleges.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
A Fridley man is facing a charge of making a terroristic threat against a Metro Transit bus driver. According to the Hennepin County Attorney's office, Michael Anthony Francis told the driver he would blow his brains out. The occasion for the May 10 threat at 48th Street and Chicago Avenue S. in Minneapolis, the criminal complaint alleges, was when the driver told Francis he had to leave the bus. Francis "made a hand gesture with his fingers as [if] he had a gun," according to the complaint, which also claims that Francis hadn't paid his fare when he boarded the bus downtown. The driver "took the threat seriously," the complaint says. Francis' criminal record includes several convictions for transit- and weapon- related offenses, according…
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Prosecutors say he veered toward squad car and later promised to kill police.
Fridley Police plan to ask for additional charges in Anoka County against a Fridley man who led police in a high-speed chase Sunday evening that ended with the car he's accused of stealing overturned in a Spring Lake Park front yard. William Harragan, 20, faces charges in Hennepin County with stealing a car in Brooklyn Park and fleeing Brooklyn Center officers on Sunday. Harragan stole the car to get home, according to the criminal complaint. After the chase crossed the river into Fridley, Harragan steered the vehicle toward an occupied Fridley squad car in the 7400 block of Baker Street NE, according to Lt. Mike Monsrud. He said the Fridley officer avoided a head-on collision by steering the squad into a parking lot. According to the …
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79th Ave NE & Able St NE, Spring Lake Park, MN
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Allina also fired four others at Mercy Hospital.
Twenty-eight employees lost their jobs at Unity Hospital in Fridley Thursday for looking at patient data related to a recent mass-overdose incident. Allina Hospitals and Clinics also fired four workers at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids for violating a policy that bars employees from accessing electronic patient records without a legitimate patient-care reason. According to spokesman David Kanihan, all 32 employees had accessed records from the March 17 mass-overdose at a Blaine house party that left one man dead and another charged with murder. The employees accessed the patient data shortly after the overdose incident, Kanihan said. Allina "has no reason to believe" that the employees did so for any reason other than to satisfy their own …
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Unity Hospital
550 Osborne Rd NE, Minneapolis, MN
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
John Heuer lives a block north of Osborne Road.
A Spring Lake Park man was set to appear in court Thursday morning on charges that he abducted an 8-year-old girl Sunday and had criminal sexual conduct with her at his home in the 500 block of 78th Avenue NE. The girl, for whom authorities had activated the state's Amber Alert system, was able to slip out of John Craig Heuer's house. Neighbors who found her on the sidewalk came to her aid, calling first her home then 911. Police say they found Heuer hiding under his pickup truck in the garage of his townhome residence which is just north of Osborne Road NE, about a block outside of Fridley. In the criminal complaint against him (see PDF), prosecutors charge Hueur with three counts of criminal sexual conduct and one count of kidnapping. …
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Terrace Rd NE & 78th Ave NE, Spring Lake Park, MN
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Taleb Mohamed Wazwaz, 50, defrauded eight mortgage lenders.
A federal judge sentenced a Fridley man to two years in federal prison Tuesday for defrauding eight mortgage lenders of a total of $1.9 million over about one year. U.S. District Court Judge David S. Doty found Taleb Mohamed Wazwaz, 50, guilty on one count of conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud through the use of interstate wires. Wazwaz pleaded guilty on May 4, 2010, to purchasing 12 Minneapolis properties at inflated prices and pocketing the rest of the borrowed money. The presentence investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation took about a year. “In white-collar cases like this, they have to determine the amount of loss, especially when you have multiple financial victims,” said U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Jeanne Cooney…
Friday, April 22, 2011
The Fridley man is in custody on separate charge after sex-assault case dismissed.
A Fridley man cleared in a separate sex-assault case Wednesday faces a new criminal charge for burglary that was filed Friday. Ahmed Hassan Sule is in custody on a single count of first-degree burglary as detailed in a criminal complaint filed Friday (see PDF), said Assistant Anoka County Attorney Wade A. Kish. According to the complaint, Sule broke into a residence in the 6700 block of Washington Street NE, fleeing when a woman who lived there awoke and began screaming. A wallet and two cell phones were missing and the woman's purse overturned, the complaint said, and the woman later picked Sule out of a lineup. The new charge follows dismissal of a separate case Wednesday against Sule that was the subject of great community concern …
Monday, March 28, 2011
The county attorney charged a Fridley woman on one count of animal cruelty.
A Fridley woman killed a Chihuahua puppy by throwing it at a piece of furniture, the Anoka County Attorney's office alleges in a criminal complaint filed Friday. According to prosecutors, the dog died March 24 in an apartment on Polk Street. They brought one charge of animal cruelty against Holly Colleen Boyd, 28. The complaint says that Boyd told Fridley police she got mad at the dog for urinating on her leg and on the couch, then picked up the dog and "violently threw it at at the hutch/dresser that was in front of the couch," causing it to go limp. The complaint said police observed no remorse about killing the dog from Boyd, who first claimed the dog had run into the leg of the coffee table and threatened to sue the police for false …
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The criminal complaint alleges that Timothy Richard Lamere supplied the drug that led to the death of Trevor Vance Robinson-Davis at Unity Hospital.
The Anoka County Attorney's Office has charged Timothy Richard Lamere, 21, of Blaine, with third-degree murder in the March 17 drug-overdose death of Trevor Vance Robinson-Davis (see PDF). Robinson-Davis, who turned 19 four days earlier, died at Unity Hospital in Fridley at 2 p.m., about 14 hours after Blaine police responded to a 911 call from a house party in the 9500 block of Monroe Street NE. By the time police arrived, people from the party had already taken Robinson-Davis to Unity Hospital, about 2.5 miles south. A Fridley police officer gave Robinson-Davis CPR at the hospital, according to Capt. Bob Rewitzer: On March 17th at 00:49 one of our officers responded to Unity Hospital, 550 Osborne Road NE, on report that a person that …
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Unity Hospital
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Chris Steller
3:24 am on Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thanks for the comment, s. To quote the March 21 criminal complaint attached to the March 22 Fridley Patch article that is linked above: "The substance found in the bottle from the defendant's pocket was tested by the Minnesota BCA. The substance was determined to be 8.9 grams of "2C-E" rather than the believed "2C-I." I am sorry for the error and will make the correction to this post. more ›