St. Paul woman targeted elderly shoppers in theft spree, charges say
A 95-year-old was grocery shopping at a Cub Foods in White Bear Township last June when a woman she didn’t know walked up to her cart and struck up a conversation. Zetta Listice Mallett Soon after, the...
View ArticleSt. Paul woman yelled racial slurs at neighbor’s guests and taunted her with...
A St. Paul woman is accused of relentlessly harassing her neighbor, at times going so far as to yell racial slurs at the woman’s visitors and attaching a sex toy to her fence, authorities say. Roberta...
View ArticleDiamond Reynolds found guilty of misdemeanor assault, but not a felony, in...
Diamond Reynolds, girlfriend of Philando Castile, enters the Ramsey County Courthouse in St. Paul on June 6, 2017, before her second day of testifying at the trial of St. Anthony police officer...
View ArticleDriver reported he had ‘several glasses’ of alcohol before crash that injured...
A police investigator photographs an SUV that was involved in an accident on the Green Line at the intersection University Avenue and Chatsworth Street on Friday, March 30, 2018. The crash shut down...
View ArticleFormer official at St. Paul country club admits to embezzling $1M
The former controller of a St. Paul golf club has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from the organization. Julie Anne Lee, 53, of Farmington, was charged with four counts of wire fraud...
View ArticleDriver who fumbled with cellphone before fatal I-35W crash gets 90 days
Destiny Xiong reached down for her cellphone just before smashing into a line of cars backed up on Interstate 35W in New Brighton almost two years ago. The collision left a St. Paul woman dead, a...
View ArticleSt. Paul man charged with criminal vehicular homicide after passenger dies
A St. Paul man who crashed into a light pole along the Green Line on Friday faces criminal vehicular homicide charges after one of the four passengers in his vehicle died. The Ramsey County Attorney’s...
View ArticleDefendant sentenced to 32 years in prison for fatal shooting outside St. Paul...
Carlos Rogers was a 28-year-old father of two who loved to fish and swim, spend time with his big extended family, and make people happy. He had plans to right the course of his life after getting out...
View ArticleSt. Paul man who killed intruder, then never reported it, sentenced
A St. Paul man was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for repeatedly striking an intruder he discovered in his garage last summer until the man stopped moving. Allan “Buddy” Mischara Aguilar, 47,...
View ArticleSt. Paul man arrested after being charged in fatal Uber driver crash in...
A St. Paul man was charged Wednesday in connection with a collision in Minneapolis last month that left an Uber driver dead and his passenger injured. Emery Winford, 42, is charged with two counts of...
View ArticleSt. Paul man gets jail time for trying to lure strangers to ex’s house for sex
A St. Paul man who posted his ex-girlfriend’s address on Facebook along with a message urging men to visit her for sex will spend a couple of weeks in jail for the scheme. Kou Thao, 45, was sentenced...
View ArticleShooting suspect charged after high-speed police chase in east metro
A man suspected in a shooting late last month faces criminal charges after leading police on a high-speed chase across the east metro on Wednesday, authorities say. Frederick Albert McGee, 28, was...
View Article‘Drop the charges’: Supporters rally for St. Paul woman who stabbed boyfriend...
Natalie Pollard, convicted in 2016 of unintentionally murdering her boyfriend, had her murder conviction reversed and recently plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press) A...
View ArticleSt. Paul man sentenced for role in death of senior citizen at light rail station
A St. Paul man who formerly faced murder charges in the death of a senior citizen at a light rail station was sentenced Monday to two years in prison on manslaughter charges instead. After reaching a...
View ArticleVictims tearfully address perpetrator in Harriet Island rape case
It was supposed to be the best time of their lives. The two close friends had just finished their last day of high school; graduation was days away. In the fall, they’d head off to college, where the...
View ArticleMinneapolis man charged after Facebook video of bus driver assault
A Minneapolis man was charged in the beating of a Metro Transit bus driver last week, leaving the driver bloodied and temporarily vision-impaired, authorities say. Sterling Smith, 26, faces one count...
View ArticleAs Hennepin County attorney, Tom Johnson went after perpetrators of child...
Serving as Hennepin County attorney for more than a decade, Tom Johnson sat across tables from too many people who had horrible things happen to them. Amid the blur of faces and stories, one still...
View ArticleDriver charged with murder for fatally crashing into St. Paul barber while...
A St. Paul man faces a murder charge after crashing into a car while drunkenly fleeing police and killing the other driver, authorities say. Shawn Michael Konder, 26, was charged with third-degree...
View ArticleConvicted killer back to prison after grabbing girl from St. Paul hallway,...
A St. Paul man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for grabbing a young teen as she walked down the hallway of her relative’s apartment building and raping her last spring. A Ramsey County...
View ArticleCaretaker gets 2 years in prison for stealing $1.4M from philanthropist John...
Nicholas Lofquist-Sprangel didn’t have to go to great lengths to steal from John Nasseff while he worked as the late St. Paul philanthropist’s overnight caretaker. He just waited for the infirm man to...
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