Several 911 calls were placed by neighbors reporting what sounded like a small explosion. Deputies arrived and located the small aircraft fully engulfed in flames in the yard of a home near the attached garage.
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33-year-old Donald Isaiah Ealey was sentenced on Friday after he pled guilty to one count of aiding and abetting 1st-degree assault in exchange for two other counts being dropped. His co-defendant, 39-year-old Justus Rydell Wright, of Buffalo, pled guilty to two felony counts last July and was given more than 14 years in prison.
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Christiaan D’Vandrick Bonner, 29, was a former inmate at the state prison MCF-Stillwater in Bayport when court documents allege on March 6 a fight broke out among several inmates inside a unit of the prison.
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The fourth and final defendant charged in relation to the shooting death of 14-year-old Demaris Hobbs Ekdahl at a Woodbury graduation party in June 2021 pled guilty to felony charges in court Friday morning and will serve prison time.
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Criminal complaints filed on Friday allege that inmates Timothy Curtis St. Clair Jr., 36, and Kristopher Lee Roybal, 40, walked away from the minimum-security housing area late Tuesday night. Both inmates were wearing GPS ankle monitors which showed them near a restaurant in Oak Park Heights and they were taken into custody nearby.
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An inmate formerly at the state prison MCF-Stillwater in Bayport has been charged with two counts of felony 4th-degree assault on a correctional employee after allegedly punching two guards who were breaking up a fight. Court documents say that on March 6 a fight broke out among several inmates inside a unit of the prison.
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A New Auburn man faces multiple felony charges after allegedly holding a Lake Elmo woman against her will while physically and sexually assaulting her for over 24 hours. David Powers, 35, is charged with 1st-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and domestic assault by strangulation, all felonies.
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Stillwater police confirm that a man is dead after exchanging gunfire with officers at an apartment building on Saturday afternoon. Police say they were dispatched to an apartment building located at 2225 Orleans Street West just before 2:30 p.m. for multiple reports of gunshots being fired inside. Another report came in to dispatch from someone inside saying they’d been shot.
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The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a crash that left two people dead on Highway 61 in Cottage Grove Sunday morning. According to Cottage Grove Public Safety, at around 8:15 a.m., multiple 911 callers reported a two-vehicle crash on Highway 61 northbound between 80th St. S. & Jamaica Ave. The callers reported that a vehicle had been traveling the wrong way on the highway before the crash.
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The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a motorcycle crash that resulted in the deaths of two people in Newport on Friday evening. The crash was reported to authorities just after 6:15 p.m. According to the State Patrol, a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle was traveling northbound on Highway 61 and taking the exit to I-494 when it veered off the roadway, rolled and came to rest in the grass median.
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The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after recovering a body from the St. Croix River north of Stillwater on Monday afternoon. Authorities say shortly after 9 a.m., they were notified of an unoccupied fishing boat seen along the Minnesota shoreline near the St. Croix Boom Site.
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Two men who pled guilty to making and detonating homemade explosive devices in November of 2020 in Washington County each received 30-day jail sentences and two years of probation. 30-year-old Nicolas Thole of Woodbury and 41-year-old Seth Slaikeu of Afton were also fined $387.00 each. Thole and Slaikeu were also given a stay of imposition, meaning their felony convictions will be reduced to misdemeanors upon successful completion of their probation.
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A prison inmate serving time for attempted first-degree murder will be serving at least six and a half more years in prison after stabbing a correctional officer with a handmade shank. Inmate Adrian Dominique Bell, 31, was already serving more than 13 years in the Stillwater prison for shooting a man seven times in an attempt to kill him back in 2012.
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Washington County authorities are raising awareness after what they call an “alarming increase” in cases of online “sextortion” cases involving juveniles, with multiple cases under review by the Woodbury Department of Public Safety.
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