White Bear Lake man lifted loaders from Fridley worksite, prosecutors and police say.
Two men were charged in separate cases Dec. 26, 2012 with crimes in Fridley: The Anoka County Attorney's Office filed charges against:
Burglar alarm seemed to scare off suspects from store that's seen "feeding frenzy" by firearms shoppers and had similar break-in using bowling-ball-sized boulder in Oct.
Update (11 a.m. Friday): An apparent attempted burglary late Thursday at Trail's End Bass Pro Shop in Fridley sparked a police search in the area early Friday morning, according to Fridley Police Capt. Bob Rewitzer. He gave this account by email Friday: At 11:49 pm officers responded to Trails End Bass Pro Shop on an audible burglar alarm covering front motion and glass breakage. Officers arrived within a minute of the call and found a broken front window. The building was searched and no one was located inside. The business owner responded to the scene and did not believe anything had been taken. Officers found fresh foot prints heading in a northern direction from the business. The area was searched however suspects were not located. It …
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A car rear-ended a school bus on the first day of school for the second year in a row.
For the second year in a row, a car rear-ended a school bus in Fridley on the first day of school. According to the officer's account in the Fridley Police Department's incident log for Sept. 5, 2012: I responded to a property damage crash involving a school bus in the 1500 block of Osborne Road. No injuries were reported and a Commercial Vehicle Inspector was dispatched. One of the driver's was cited for inattentive driving (Depending on students' school and grade levels, Sept. 4 and 5, 2012 were the first days of school for many Fridley-area students.) Lt. Mike Monsrud offered more detail about the incident: The driver who crashed into the rear of the bus was cited for inattentive driving. She told police she looked at her radio to …
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Work will last through Wednesday.
Osborne Road is closed between East River Road and Main Street while the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad replaces a short stretch of track. The project should be done tomorrow, according to BNSF crew member Pat Hust. He said Tuesday the track-replacement work is moving south and has about 3,000 more feet to go. The crew began Monday replacing a slight curve of track that starts about halfway between Osborne Road and 77th Avenue NE and continues toward the west end of Community Park. Among the last of more than a dozen separate steps in replacing track: heating the new rails to more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit and driving spikes into railroad ties. The old lengths of track will go a metal scrapper, a smaller railroad, or a less busy …
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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A creek backed up, putting water onto the roadway.
East River Road was closed to traffic at 77th Way Tuesday due to isolated flooding caused by a logjam in the pipe carrying creekwater under the road. Traffic in both directions was detoured (see PDF) around a two-block stretch of East River Road at rush hour Tuesday evening, although crews had cleared the jam and water was no longer on the roadway. The cause was a tree that got stuck in a four-foot diameter pipe that carries water under East River Road, said Fridley Public Works crew member Craig Hanson. The water drains from the city's North Industrial Area, he said. When crews managed to remove the tree in mid-afternoon, a rush of water blew a hole in the ground just to the west of the road. The blow-out is next to a drain that directs …
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Mayor asks for copy of Bruce Nelson's letter.
One of the residents who has mounted a yard-sign protest against a new medical-clinic building and parking lot appeared before the Fridley City Council Monday during its open-forum period. Bruce Nelson read a statement to the council in which he presented six grievances concerning the Fridley Medical Center, part of the Unity Hospital campus which stands across Fifth Street NE from his Osborne Road home. Nelson's complaints centered on the traffic coming and going from the center's parking lot, as well as snow-removal noise, clinic employees gathering to smoke near his house, and light reflecting from the center's windows. "These problems arose after a special use permit was granted to Multicare Assocates to build their megaplex in the …
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Residents at one nearby house aren't happy about a new institutional neighbor—and they're using yard signs to say so.
Handmade signs stick out of the snow in the side yard at the corner of Fifth Street NE and Osborne Road. They're not political or business signs—they're signs of protest, facing the new Fridley Medical Center just across Fifth Street. Brothers Steve and Bruce Nelson live in the house at the corner and put out the signs. They are upset that the Fridley City Council permitted construction of the medical center on land that's zoned residential. But the Nelsons' yard sign protest is focused on the entrance/exit of the medical center parking lot, located mid-block on Fifth Street, opposite their garage. "We're the house that's affected the most, because of the [parking lot] driveway," said Bruce Nelson. "We feel we have no other alternative …
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11:31 am on Friday, December 24, 2010
Another sleepless night thanks to Multicare and Dustbusters snow removal. There construction type snow removal equipment is so loud we cant sleep at night. I just don't inderstand how it is legal for a company to build there megaplex in a residential zone and then impact the neighborhood like they do. I understand that snow needs to be removed but they never should have been allowed to built … more ›