Following 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 [...]
Tags: apartment complex, attorney, burgarly, burglary in the third degree, burnsville, Coon Rapids, criminal charges, criminal damage to property, dakota county, dakota county attorney, damage, eagan, Eagan Police, felony, laundry, Pine County, theftOn July 1, 2011, Minnesota’s new drug laws took effect. We blogged about this most recently on June 17. One of the goals of the Minnesota’s amended drug laws included making synthetic drugs illegal. (It looks like the Revisor of Statutes hasn’t updated the website yet—is this part of Minnesota’s government shut down?) The amendments [...]
Tags: bath salt, drugs, felony, mephedrone, narcotic, plant food, possession, prosecuteAfter Sunday’s tornado, a curfew was placed for the areas between I-94 and Penn, Plymouth, and Dowling Avenues. Police Chief Tim Dolan says this is the first curfew he has seen in the city in the 30 years he has been there. The curfew was from 9pm Sunday night through Monday morning at 6am. The [...]
Tags: Bennerotte and Associates, Criminal Defense Attorney, curfew, curfew violation, felony, gross misdemeanor, gunfire, looting, minneapolis, misdemeanor, petty misdemeanorsThe Department of Homeland Security will begin using Canadian military radar technology later this year to prevent drug smuggling from Canada into the United States. They plan to start using the radar in November. The radar was used successfully in Washington state from 2005-2008. Several senators from neighboring states have written to Janet Napolitano, the [...]
Tags: Bennerotte and Associates, Canadian military radar technology, controlled substance, Controlled Substances Crimes, criminal defense attorney mn, Department of Homeland Security, drug paraphernalia, felony, fifth degree, first degree, gross misdemeanor, Janet Napolitano, minnesota drug laws, petty misdemeanors, salviaTwo Minnesota golf courses have been vandalized this week as a result of criminal activity. First, on Tuesday, in St. Cloud a high speed chase went through the St. Cloud Country Club. It was a two mile police chase that went through yards and even hit a house. Grass and landscaping was damaged in [...]
Tags: Bennerotte and Associates, chaska, criminal damage to property, criminal defense attorney mn, felony, high-speed chase, marijuana possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, reckless driving, speeding, st. cloudYesterday in a blog on injuryattorneysmn.com I reported that the hit and run accident that occurred at the University of Minnesota over a week ago was not an accident. The driver admitted to the person he sold the car to that he had hit 3 of the 4 people on purpose. He is facing up [...]
Tags: Bennerotte and Associates, Criminal Defense Attorney, felony, hit and run, intentional hit and run, murder with a deadly weapon, second-degree murder, university of minnesotaTwo St. Paul, Minnesota brothers were at a party last weekend with over 300 other teenagers. The St. Paul Police Department was called by the owner of the building, New Frontier Saloon, to have the police kick out the teenagers. It took almost 30 police officers to break up the party. When the police arrived [...]
Tags: assualt, Bennerotte and Associates, Criminal Defense Attorney, felony, police brutality, st. paul police departmentFederal law prohibits anybody that has a felony charge against them from carrying a firearm. Dictionary.com defines a firearm as “a weapon, esp a portable gun or pistol, from which a projectile can be discharged by an explosion caused by igniting gunpowder, etc.” Even though Federal law does not consider a muzzleloader a firearm, almost [...]
Tags: Bennerotte and Associates, Criminal Defense Attorney, felony, gun control, muzzleloaderIn Hennepin County Stacy Michael Dotts was put on probation for a felony third-degree level assault for slapping and then punching somebody with a closed fist. Dotts had several terms of the probation that were not completed. He was found on a street corner with an open can of beer and arrested for loitering with [...]
Tags: Bennerotte and Associates, criminal defense, Criminal Defense Attorney, felony, hennepin county, probation, third degree assaultAfter a night of drinking with some friends, somebody was involved in an altercation and was arrested and taken to the local jail, and charged with felony level Domestic Assault and other crimes. Being a business professional, the person was afraid of being charged with a felony, and the unfamiliarity of the court system. This [...]
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