An Ely man was found dead on a rock ridge along the Echo Trail north of Ely after he became separated from family members during an outing, the Saint Louis County Sheriff's Office said.
A Maple Grove man is charged with firing a handgun at a car carrying four people in downtown Minneapolis because he believed they were part of a group chasing him, according to a criminal complaint. No one was hurt.
A Springfield man fired his handgun and passed it to three others, two of them under 18, who shot into fields and at a road sign during a late-night drive in rural Redwood County, according to the complaint.
An 18-year-old man allegedly set fire to a car in a Duluth apartment parking lot early one morning, causing flames to engulf two vehicles and damage others, according to new criminal charges.
When police arrest someone in Minnesota and a prosecutor decides not to file charges, the case is often described as "charges declined." It means no charges for now. It does not mean the person was cleared, and in most cases it does not stop prosecutors from filing charges later.
A white Chevrolet Suburban suspected in narcotics trafficking was stopped on State Highway 64 south of Akeley after officers learned it might contain a firearm, according to the complaint.
A man told police he was pulled from a bed and repeatedly punched, kicked and bitten, leaving him with severe head injuries and bleeding from his ears, according to the complaint.
A Blaine man is charged in a drive-by shooting on Highway 100 in Saint Louis Park that wounded a driver in the ankle after a car registered to the man followed his vehicle from a Columbia Heights restaurant, according to a criminal complaint.
A Maplewood man is charged with kidnapping for ransom after a man who had come to sell an electric bike said he was held at gunpoint in a Saint Paul garage, tied up with zip ties and told to pay $600, according to a criminal complaint.
A Minneapolis man is charged with an aggravated first-degree drug crime involving a firearm and illegal gun possession after Hennepin County sheriff's deputies searching a north Minneapolis home found more than 600 grams of cocaine and a loaded handgun, according to a criminal complaint.
A Crystal man is accused of pulling a pistol on a 15-year-old boy over a jacket at a Maplewood home, then threatening to shoot him and leading police on a chase into Minneapolis, according to a criminal complaint.
A man in Minneapolis handed a gun to another man and told him to "do something with it" before the second man pointed the weapon at two people outside a bar, according to the complaint.
A woman grabbed a bat and tried to bite another woman inside a trailer, then grabbed her waistband as if reaching for a gun, according to a complaint filed in Clearwater County.
A driver sped away from a Robbinsdale traffic stop, crashed into a pick-up truck and ran from officers before being arrested, according to the complaint.
A Fairmont man is accused of swinging a metal folding chair at a city worker who asked him to leave a rental shelter at a Fairmont park, then threatening to cut off the worker's hands and kill him, according to a criminal complaint.
