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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Man Who Groped Girl at Fridley Walmart Gets 12 Years of Probation

The sentence for Nathan William Charles Jones, 30, of Columbia Heights also included a fine of $1,000 or 100 hours of community service, WCCO reported.

Nathan William Charles Jones, who pleaded guilty to groping a girl at the Fridley Walmart in 2011 as she stood within a foot of her mother, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years of supervised probation, according to WCCO. Jones' case was set to go to trial in January, but store video showing the incident prompted his plea, according to Assistant County Attorney Amy Reed-Hall. The WCCO report also said Jones' sentence includes: Read the full WCCO article. Jones' age and the age of the girl at the time of the Dec. 26, 2011,   incident (he was 29 and she was 11) elevated the charge to a felony, Reed-Hall told Patch in January after Jones entered a guilty plea that stopped short of his scheduled trial. Under law, penalties for a conviction …

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Prosecutor: Walmart Video 'Key' to Accused Groper's Guilty Plea

The 'jury would have looked at it and thought it was strange,' she says of images police claimed showed Columbia Heights man's movements in Fridley store.

Images from Walmart store video that Fridley police said showed a Columbia Heights man tracking girls then groping one as she stood next to her mother were "key to getting him to plead guilty," according to an Anoka County prosecutor. Last week Nathan William Charles Jones' case was scheduled to go to jury trial. Instead, he entered a plea of guilty to the crime with which he was charged: second-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony. "A jury would have looked at it and thought it was strange," said Assistant Anoka County Attorney Amy Reed-Hall in an interview two days after the hearing. Sentencing is set for March 27, 2013. A scheduled psychosexual evaluation will be crucial to determining his sentence, Reed-Hall said. Under law, …

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Man Charged with Groping Girl at Fridley Walmart Pleads Guilty

Cameras caught Columbia Heights defendant touching 11-year-old as she stood inches from her mother, police said. Sentencing is March 27, 2013.

A man charged with groping an 11-year-old girl as she stood eight inches from her mother at the Fridley Walmart entered a guilty plea Tuesday in Anoka County District Court. The plea comes nearly 13 months after the alleged sexual assault. Surveillance video captured images of the man on Dec. 26, 2011—entering the store, looking at girls, then grabbing the victim's buttocks before quickly exiting the store, according to the criminal complaint against Nathan William Charles Jones, 30, of Columbia Heights. Authorities credited tips from the public for Jones' Dec. 30, 2011 arrest after police released still images from the store's video cameras through the news media. Prosecutors charged Jones on Jan. 3, 2012 with one count of second-degree …

Laurie white

9:13 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013

What a nasty pig he needs to sit in jail for along time that's a child seriously he is sick   more ›

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Read: Criminal Complaint in Case of Alleged Groping of Girl at Wal-Mart

Defendant Nathan William Charles Jones is out of jail on $100,000 bail bond.

Updated below. The man charged with groping a young girl at the Wal-Mart store in Fridley on Dec. 26 is out of jail. Nathan William Charles Jones, 29, of Columbia Heights, posted a $100,000 bail bond Tuesday night, according to the Anoka County Jail. He was arrested Friday and held over the holiday weekend. The terms of the $100,000 bail amount include a no-contact order, according to David A. Cossi, chief deputy county attorney. A larger bail amount option did not include the no-contact order, he said. The conditions included "no contact with the alleged victim, her family or any unsupervised contact with minors," according to KARE11, although Cossi said he couldn't confirm those details. The Anoka County Attorney's Office charged Jones …

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Prosecutors Charge Columbia Heights Man with Groping Girl at Fridley Wal-Mart

Nathan Williams Charles Jones faces one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.

The Columbia Heights man arrested Friday for allegedly groping a girl at the Fridley Wal-Mart store was charged Tuesday with one count of criminal sexual conduct, according to media reports. Anoka County Attorney's Office filed a single charge of second-degree criminal sexual conduct against Nathan Williams Charles Jones, 29, Tuesday, according to KARE 11: Bail for Jones was set Tuesday at $175,000 without conditions, and $100,000 with the condition that Jones have no contact with the alleged victim, her family or any unsupervised contact with minors. Jones' next court date is Feb. 1. The criminal complaint claims that Jones "touched the buttocks of the young girl," according to KARE11. According to Minnesota Public Radio: The criminal …

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