Reward Offered For Info On Suspect In Columbia Heights Home Invasion
Police in Columbia Heights are offering a $1,000 reward for information that will lead the arrest of a suspect in a home invasion and robbery last week.
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Police in Columbia Heights are offering a $1,000 reward for information that will lead the arrest of a suspect in a home invasion and robbery last week.
Officials in Columbia Heights say they're searching for a vehicle of interest in connection to an incident earlier this week where a 76-year-old man was robbed and shot in his home.
Columbia Heights police are searching for the armed intruder who followed an elderly man into his home, then robbed and shot him. It happened around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday evening, as the 76-year old widower was bringing groceries in from his car that was parked in his driveway.
The Brooklyn Center Police Department is on the lookout for four men responsible for a home invasion. A home in the 5000 block of Drew Avenue was the target. Police say the men entered the home, made demands and then shot four people inside.
Four people were shot after a home invasion in Brooklyn Center early Wednesday morning. According to Brooklyn Center police, around 3:15 a.m. officers responded to a shooting in the 5000 block of Drew Avenue North.
Authorities are still searching for a 20-year-old inmate who escaped a Wisconsin correctional center 12 days ago. Kaeden Timothy James Dumholt fled the Black River Correction Center in Black River Falls, Wis. on the night of Aug. 2. He is also suspected of an armed home invasion four days later, which led to a high-speed chase with Sawyer County deputies. The suspect fled on foot and was not found.
A 20-year-old man who escaped from the Black River Correctional Camp earlier this month is now suspected in a home invasion and a high-speed pursuit, according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
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A Duluth man who robbed a Subway franchise at gunpoint and assaulted a woman, whose home he was burglarizing, with a glass vase was sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison on Thursday.
An Anoka man who climbed atop a north Minneapolis home after fleeing law enforcement was charged Friday with multiple crimes. The Hennepin County Attorney's office says Richard Dean Podvin, 37, is charged with two counts of fifth-degree drug possession, one count of first-degree burglary, one count of a prohibited person in possession of a gun and one count of fleeing police in a motor vehicle.
A 43-year-old man will spend nearly 8 years in prison for his role in an Anoka County home invasion and assault, the Anoka County Attorney's Office announced Monday.
Police arrested three people early Thursday morning after they allegedly invaded a Chisago Lakes Township home and held its owner and renters against their will.
Authorities say that a fugitive who was wanted in connection with a number of criminal cases led police on a chase in the Twin Cities Thursday afternoon. According to Deputy Thomas Volk of the U.S. Marshal Service, Kaley Wethern was wanted in connection with a home invasion in Mille Lacs County.
A Grand Rapids man has pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder after breaking into a stranger's house in St. Cloud and beating and choking him. Corey Becker also pleaded guilty Monday to one count of kidnapping in Stearns County.
Four men have been indicted in a July 2013 Washington County home invasion where a woman feared for her life after being tied up and threatened with a gun, according to court documents. The Washington County Attorney's Office, in partnership with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Milwaukee, Wis., said four men have been charged in the West Lakeland Township incident.
The Koochiching County Sheriff's Office says a 34-year-old man was shot and killed after he assaulted an elderly woman in her Ray, Minn. home Saturday morning.
A 31-year-old man has been sentenced to 8 years in prison in connection to a brutal Elk River home invasion and brazen police chase in February. On Friday, Ryan Thomas Woehler received his 96-month sentence after being convicted of first-degree burglary and kidnapping.
One person is in custody after a man reported being assaulted in his home by an unknown male. Corey William Becker, 21, of Grand Rapids, is being held at Stearns County Jail in connection with the incident. According to the St. Cloud Police Department, authorities responded to a report of a burglary in the 1000 block of 36th Avenue North in St. Cloud, Minn.
A Columbia Heights man faces charges after a home invasion robbery and assault last week, the Anoka County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday. On June 5, police officers responded to the incident at the 4100 block of Jefferson Street Northeast.
Authorities have identified one of the two suspects arrested in a Columbia Heights home invasion.
Two suspects are in custody and authorities are looking for a third after responding to a home invasion call Thursday night in the northeast metro.
Two men sit in the Sherburne County Jail charged with a brutal Elk River home invasion. But the biggest threat came as 40-year-old Aaron Martin and 31-year-old Ryan Woehler sent police on a high-speed chase, going the wrong way on Interstate 94 near Rogers last Thursday. Dozens of motorists and law enforcement officers were put at risk as the pursuit continued for nearly two miles. Authorities believed that the men had a kidnapping victim with them.
Police say they believe a brazen Elk River home invasion that ended with a police chase through the northwest Twin Cities metro on Thursday was not random. Shortly after 9 a.m., Elk River Police were called to a possible home invasion on the 18500 block of Quinty Court.
Authorities said two suspects were arrested Thursday morning in connection with an Elk River home invasion that ended with a police chase through the northwest Twin Cities metro. Elk River Police were called at about 9:05 a.m. to a possible home invasion on the 18500 block of Quinty Court.
An 18-year-old St. Paul man was sentenced to more than 25 years in prison on Tuesday in Ramsey County Court in connection with the robbery and sexual assault of a 65-year-old woman.
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The Trump administration's positions on a number of issues is prompting debate on constitutional powers versus executive orders.
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The first part of the week remains chilly, but highs jump into the 60s Wednesday, albeit with a few scattered showers possible, WCCO meteorologist Joseph Dames reports.