Market Place ran a story this morning on Minnesota Public Radio about two scam artists who sold a wooden iPad to a woman—in a McDonald’s parking lot in South Carolina. The men had painted a block of wood with a fake Apple logo and apparently real-looking icons on the “screen.” According to Macnn.com, the men [...]
0 commentsThe Ramsey County Attorney’s Office has charged a man in St. Paul with Second Degree Attempted Murder and First Degree Arson, according to WCCO. According to the report, the man threw Molotov cocktails through the window of his girlfriend’s bedroom. He then blocked the exit so she and her kids could not get out. A [...]
0 commentsWe’ve all received an e-mail that is too good to be true—some foreign individual promises to pay you money as long as you’re the conduit for some financial transaction. Just provide your bank account and you’ll be rich. Well, it looks like at least eighty law firms in the United States fell for a Nigerian [...]
0 commentsA Minnetonka man was arrested by Minneapolis police over the weekend for driving under the influence, WCCO reported today. The man was driving a Jaguar XJ8 when he ran a red light and struck another vehicle. Two preliminary breath tests showed he had a blood alcohol content of .40 and .391—five times the legal limit [...]
0 commentsBack in April 2011, there was a fatal hit-and-run in dinky town in Minneapolis. At that time, the Star Tribune reported that a Roseville man had been arrested after witnesses had described the vehicle that had struck and killed a young man from Appleton, WI. He was charged with three counts of First Degree Murder [...]
0 commentsFollowing a June 27, 2011 incident, Eagan police looked for two men who are alleged to have stolen coin boxes from commercial dryers at an apartment complex on High Site Drive “in the City of Eagan, County of Dakota, State of Minnesota” according to the criminal complaint. Eagan police utilized the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal [...]
0 commentsA Pine County Prosecutor, Michael Bjerke, is accused of sexual assault. He is facing fifth-degree attempted criminal sexual assault and fifth-degree assault charges. A group of four women claim that back in May he struck up a conversation with them through the window of their hotel room at the Best Value Motel in Hinckley, Minnesota. [...]
2 commentsTMZ caught Casey Anthony on video drinking a Corona. She was found not guilty on July 5th of murdering her two year-old daughter, Casey Anthony. She was sentenced to four years in jail for lying to police, however, was released shortly after due to time she had served since she was originally incarcerated in October [...]
0 commentsDWI/DUI defendants and criminal defense attorneys in Minnesota have been “waiting to exhale” as the Star Tribune put it on July 27, 2011. On July 26, 2011, the Minnesota supreme court issued an order staying further proceedings in the Source Code Litigation. This ruling means that instead of each case being heard individually, they will [...]
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