Friday, February 22, 2013
She was an 18-year-old from St. Paul, the Anoka County Sheriff's Office believes.
The Anoka County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Friday investigators are working on the case of a body found Thursday in a car at an impound lot in the 3800 block of Central Ave. NE in Columbia Heights. The vehicle had been towed Feb. 13 from an apartment complex parking lot in Brooklyn Park, the statement said. See a WCCO-TV video report about the body found in a towed car in Columbia Heights. Here is the full text of the ACSO press release: On 2-21-13, the body of what is believed to be an adult female was found in a vehicle that had been towed to an impound lot in the 3800 block of Central Ave NE in the City of Columbia Heights. The vehicle had been towed to that location from an apartment complex in the City of Brooklyn Park…
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Police: 'It's been in water quite some time.'
A fisherman found a dead body floating in the Mississippi River under the I-694 bridge at about 3 p.m. Friday, according to Fridley Police Capt. Brian Weierke. A preliminary investigation is underway, Weierke said. Police aren't releasing any more information about the body. "It'w been in the water for quite some time" based on the degree of the body's decomposition, Weierke said. The Anoka County Medical Examiner and the Anoka County Crime Lab of the County Investigative Division (CID) were also on the scene, as well as the fire departments of Fridley and Coon Rapids. The medical examiner was leading the recovery and identification of the body, Weierke said. The body was out of the water as of about 4 p.m. Even in a light rain, the park …
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
It was the first death at the city-owned and -operated nature center.
The man found dead Monday floating in the pond at Springbrook Nature Center was Myron Wesley Dobberstein, according to information that the Anoka County Sheriff's Office released Tuesday afternoon. Dobberstein lived around the corner from the park at Banfill Crossing Senior Adult Community, 8310 University Ave. NE. He had just turned 77 on April 7. A park visitor found Dobberstein's body at around 10:15 a.m. Monday, about 10 feet from a floating boardwalk trail in the west-central part of the park. Friends had last seen him alive at another location at about 9 a.m. Monday. There was no obvious sign of trauma or indication of foul play in his death. An investigation is underway and autopsy results are still pending. Update (6 p.m.): How …
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Monday, April 11, 2011
No obvious sign of foul play in death of 77-year-old Fridley man who walked regularly in the park.
A park visitor at Springbrook Nature Center found the body of a 77-year-old Fridley man in the northwest part of the pond at about 10:15 a.m. Monday, according to the Anoka County Sheriff's office. (See updates below.) There was no obvious indication of trauma or foul play in the death of the man who Comm. Paul Sommer of the sheriff's office described tenatively as a white male who frequently visited the park. Friends last saw the man at another location at about 9 a.m. Monday. Fridley police responded to the scene then called the sheriff's office, whose dive team at about 1:30 p.m. recovered the body floating about 10 feet from a wooden trail built over the water, Sommer said. Results of an autopsy should be available tomorrow, Sommer …
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Mike B.
12:45 pm on Saturday, March 9, 2013
Minnesota needs the common sense to bring back the electric chair for these types of heinous crimes, more ›