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For false claim of St. Paul police misconduct, he’ll spend a day behind bars
A Minneapolis man accused of falsely reporting that a police officer pulled a gun on him in St. Paul has been ordered to spend a day in jail. Franchize Baby McWright The sentence was delivered after...
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Minneapolis woman gets life in prison for murder at St. Paul auto parts shop
A Minneapolis woman will spend the rest of her life in prison for her role in the slaying of a 31-year-old father gunned down in a St. Paul auto parts parking lot last summer. Antionette Rie Johnson...
View ArticleTwo plead guilty in Hamline University embezzlement scheme
A man and woman involved in an elaborate fraud scheme orchestrated by a supervisor in the accounts payable department at Hamline University have pleaded guilty to their conduct. Zarice Lee Hoyt, 30, of...
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St. Paul man sentenced for killing friend who was trying to help him grieve
A St. Paul man will spend the next several years in prison after fatally stabbing a friend who was helping him grieve the loss of his younger brother. Joseph Edward Fischer (Courtesy of Ramsey County...
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Convicted of one stranger rape, he pleads guilty to three more
An accused serial rapist who terrorized St. Paul’s East Side last year has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three women. A jury last month convicted him of raping a fourth. Larry Griffin, 39,...
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Philando Castile family reaches $3M settlement in death
The mother of Philando Castile has reached a nearly $3 million settlement with the city of St. Anthony over all civil claims related to the fatal shooting of her son by one of the city’s police...
View ArticleSt. Paul man gets prison time for role in ‘massive’ fraud scheme, authorities...
A St. Paul man was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in what Ramsey County authorities described as a “massive” multimillion-dollar public benefits fraud scheme. Joshua John Miller...
View ArticleMounds View man pleads guilty to stalking women he found on Craigslist
A Mounds View man admitted in court Monday to stalking women he found on Craigslist in hopes of engaging in sexually explicit phone conversations. Tayler James Rubbelke, 24, pleaded guilty in Ramsey...
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Charges: A St. Paul drug deal becomes murder, claiming life of Tartan High grad
Merion Dontez Denton (Courtesy of the Ramsey County sheriffs office) A 17-year-old met up with three other young men in St. Paul’s Summit-University neighborhood over the weekend to buy some...
View ArticleA year ago he was pressured to plead guilty to murder. This week he was...
A St. Paul man had tears in his eyes Monday when he learned that a jury had found him not guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man outside a St. Paul bar in the fall of 2015, his...
View ArticleAfter a Little Canada bar fight, one man returned with a gun, shooting...
A St. Paul man was charged Monday for his role in a shooting outside a Little Canada bar that left three people injured over the weekend. Marquise Dayshawn Parker, 21, of St. Paul, faces three counts...
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‘She was not there’: Diamond Reynolds pleads not guilty in hammer assault case
Diamond Reynolds pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges alleging she assaulted a woman with a hammer in St. Paul along with two accomplices last winter. The plea was entered at the Ramsey County Law...
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Judge offers support to jury who acquitted Yanez
The judge who presided over the trial of a St. Anthony police officer charged with manslaughter in the death of Philando Castile defended jurors’ decision to acquit him in a letter he wrote them after...
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Accused serial rapist maintains innocence at sentencing
A jury found him guilty of raping at gunpoint a stranger he met on the street, but Larry Griffin maintained his innocence Thursday as he awaited a judge’s sentence for a crime he said he couldn’t...
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Coon Rapids man gets decades in prison in fatal shooting during gang dispute
A Coon Rapids man will spend decades in prison for fatally shooting an 18-year-old during a chaotic altercation between rival gangs in St. Paul in the spring of 2016. Glen Dale Acon, Jr., 33, was...
View ArticleWoman driving drunk caused Mounds View crash, charges say
A 20-year-old woman faces criminal charges after authorities say she drove while intoxicated and caused a crash in Mounds View that led to injuries. Amanda Jane Nubin of Crystal was charged Friday with...
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2 men charged in killing outside St. Paul bar
Last month, police found Carlos Michael Rogers with a gunshot wound to his face amid a crowd of people outside a St. Paul bar. Now, two men face charges connected to his death. Charles Eugene Frye, 37,...
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Activist group files complaint against Yanez’s attorney
The leader of a local activist group concerned with police brutality is calling out one of the attorneys who represented former St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez for allegedly displaying racism...
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Former supervisor admits to swindling Hamline University out of more than...
A supervisor in the accounts payable department at Hamline University accused of orchestrating an elaborate fraud scheme admitted to the conduct in court this week. Teresa Garin, 51, of St. Paul...
View ArticleSt. Paul burglar who made herself at home gets no further jail time
A woman who broke into a St. Paul residence last fall and made herself comfortable by putting on a pair of the homeowner’s daughter’s pants and helping herself to some food will serve no further jail...
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