Authorities say the investigation began on the morning of Sept. 24, 2024, when a Washington County Child Protection Services social worker alerted a Woodbury Police Department detective to the report of abuse involving the infant.

On Wednesday, Oct. 9, at around 8:36 a.m., Woodbury EMS were called to the 500 block of Woodduck Drive for a “medical emergency,” police say. Despite life-saving efforts by responders, the person could not be revived.

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.

Woodbury police were called to a residence on Sunbury Alcove on March 27 around noon for a report of a man found not breathing. Officers arrived and found the 22-year-old deceased in the basement bedroom. According to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner, the man’s cause of death was said to be fentanyl toxicity.

Woodbury police are searching for two suspects after a juvenile was found shot in a crashed vehicle late Monday afternoon. Police say they responded to a 911 call just before 4:30 p.m. on the 500 block of Lake View Drive where a caller reported that a car had crashed through a garage and someone had been shot.

18-year-old Kyle Scott Hollister pleaded guilty to one count of criminal vehicular homicide and one count of criminal vehicular operation after a fatal crash in Woodbury on March 13, 2021 that killed an occupant, Garrett Bumgarner, 18, and left three others with serious injuries. Bumgarner was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash and was found ejected from the vehicle.

A Kansas man found guilty earlier this month of five felonies including rape and aggravated kidnapping was arrested Friday in Woodbury, Minn. with help from the US Marshals and a Washington County SWAT team after he barricaded himself inside a home.

A Brooklyn Park man charged with promoting prostitution has been sentenced in Washington County District County to more than 16 years in prison. James Edward Williams, 42, was sentenced Friday to 201 months in state prison on charges of engaging in sex trafficking and violation of a no-contact order.

Woodbury police are investigating the fatal shooting of a teen boy near a graduation party on the 6100 block of Edgewood Ave. around 10:45 p.m. Saturday, June 5. Officers found between 30-40 people running from the area after receiving multiple 911 calls with people screaming in the background.

Woodbury police are investigating after a single-vehicle crash killed one person and left four others injured shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday on Settler's Ridge Pkwy. near Sundance Ln.