Friday, March 15, 2013
A Fridley police officer provided first aid. Witnesses to Columbia Heights incident said a silver passenger vehicle sped off.
Updates (10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Friday): The Anoka County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Friday morning that a pedestrian seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver in Columbia Heights early Friday was running across Central Avenue NE against a "Do Not Walk" signal. Here is the full text of the Anoka County Sheriff's Office news release: Pedestrian Hit and Run Accident under investigation in Columbia Heights On Friday, March 15, 2013 at 0145 AM, the Columbia Heights Police Department responded to a pedestrian who had been struck by a car on Central Ave NE at the intersection with 53d Ave NE. Witnesses’ at the scene state that southbound Central Ave traffic had a green semaphore as cars were approaching to go southbound through the …
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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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3800 Central Ave NE, Columbia Heights, MN
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Authorities set up a perimeter for about an hour after midnight in response to a reported robbery of a person on Peters Place.
Fridley police aided in the search for a robbery suspect or suspects early Wednesday morning in Columbia Heights. Officer Joe Pikala of the Columbia Heights Police Department said police were responding to a report of a robbery of a person in the 3900 block of Peters Place NE. Pikala said the case remains under investigation and couldn't comment further, although he did confirm that a police K9 unit was involved in the search, which he said lasted about an hour. The Anoka County Sheriff's Office also assisted the Columbia Heights Police Department. Columbia Heights police created a perimeter shortly after 12:30 a.m., as reported at the Police Clips Facebook page, starting at the 1000 block of Peters Place. (Peters Place is a short, bending…
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1000 Peters Pl, Columbia Heights, MN
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3900 Peters Pl, Columbia Heights, MN
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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 …
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 ›