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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Spring Lake Park Man Charged in Child Abduction

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. …

Friday, April 22, 2011

UPDATED: ASPCA Says Fridley Woman Charged in Puppy Death Was Never a Member

Holly Boyd told the Star Tribune she has been an ASPCA member for 12 years, but the group said that's not so.

Updated (Nov. 29, 2011): Holly Boyd, the woman charged with animal cruelty (and since convicted and sentenced), offered an explanation for why the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) had no record of her membership. (She had told the Star Tribune she was a longstanding member of the organization. Her name was different then, she said in an interview in court before her sentencing began Tuesday. Boyd declined to give her former name but said she had paperwork to document that she has been a regular donor to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Original post (April 2, 2011): The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) said Friday that a Fridley woman …

Document: Ahmed Sule Faces New Burglary Charge

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 …

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