Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 6-year-old girl after her mother died of suspected suicide inside her apartment Saturday morning. Police say Lisa Wade, 39, was found dead inside an apartment on the 600 block of Maple Brook Ct. shortly before noon on July 2.

Officers from multiple agencies were searching the area of Vadnais Lake on Friday evening for a reportedly suicidal woman and her three children. According to initial law enforcement dispatch audio reviewed by MN CRIME, the woman’s husband reportedly died by suicide today and the woman then threatened to kill herself and her children.

Saint Paul police have started a homicide investigation after a man was found shot and killed on a sidewalk early Friday morning. A 911 caller reported around 3:10 a.m. that a person was lying on the sidewalk in front of a building on the 600 block of Dale St. N.

A grand jury today indicted a Rice County man on charges of 1st- and 2nd-degree murder after his roommate was found dead from a shotgun wound to the neck last month. Cody Vernon Kolstad, 32, of Morristown, was charged June 1 with 2nd-degree murder for the shooting death of Brian Daniel Stoeckel, 41, on May 31, 2022.

Brandon Gardas--the suspect in a 44-hour long standoff in Saint Michael last week--has been charged with two counts of 1st-degree attempted murder of a peace officer, two counts of 1st-degree assault, threats and several other charges, according to Wright County officials.

A Faribault man has been charged in relation to a St. Paul Park burglary after DNA left on discarded Coke Zero cans tied him to the crime scene. According to a criminal complaint, Michael Walter Kaste Fafara, 30, entered a garage service door of a residence on the 1400 block of Summit Ave. on Oct. 11, 2019.

An investigation is underway after Olmsted County deputies discovered a deceased woman under a tarp in the area of County Road 2 and 70th Ave. Ne. in Haverhill Township on Friday. Officers were called after someone mowing tall grass next to a field noticed the tarp and saw an arm sticking out from the side.

An armed man holed up in a Saint Michael home since yesterday afternoon was shot by officers and has been taken into custody. Brandon Gardas, 39, was being airlifted to the hospital as of 9 p.m. Wednesday, authorities have confirmed.

A Saint Paul man found guilty by a jury of second-degree murder was sentenced to more than 36 years in prison on Friday. Robert Lee Baker, 30, was found guilty by a jury in April 2022.

A 26-year-old woman appeared in a Washington County court earlier this month to face two charges of criminal vehicular operation after she allegedly struck an Oak Park Heights police squad car on Highway 36 near Stillwater Blvd. last December.

A Stillwater corrections officer and an inmate have been indicted for their alleged roles in a methamphetamine distribution organization within the Stillwater prison. Faith Rose Gratz, 24, a MCF-Stillwater corrections officer, and Axel Rene Kramer, 34, an inmate who is serving a 288-month sentence for 2nd-degree murder, conspired with each other to distribute meth within the prison.

Saint Paul police are investigating the city’s 20th homicide of the year after a man was found fatally stabbed in the North End neighborhood Monday. Officers were called to an apartment building on the 100 block of Winnipeg Ave. just after 5:30 p.m. for a reported assault.

Police arrested three suspects and recovered four firearms outside the Brooklyn Center Sun Foods, 6350 Brooklyn Blvd., around 8 p.m. Friday after an armed carjacking and ensuing vehicle pursuit. Brooklyn Park police said the victim was pistol-whipped by one of the suspects during a carjacking on the 7600 block of Jolly Ln.

Plymouth police are investigating after a 28-year-old man was found fatally shot in a vehicle outside a gas station Thursday night. Police were called to Sami’s Stop near Hwy. 169 & 36th Ave. N. around 8:20 p.m. after gunfire was reported in the area.

Saint Louis County authorities have taken a man into custody on a 3rd-degree murder charge after a woman’s fatal overdose last year. Cordaro Demario Ware, 32, is being held at the St. Louis County Jail awaiting a court appearance.

Saint Paul police say a homicide investigation is underway after a welfare check Friday night led to the discovery of a man dead from a gunshot wound in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood.

Surveillance video shows part of a gunfight at a student housing co-op on the University of Minnesota campus early Saturday morning that left a 15-year-old boy shot in the leg.

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.

Authorities have confirmed the body of a young boy was found inside of a vehicle on Friday morning after a traffic stop near Shoreline Drive & Bartlett Avenue in Mound. Orono police, who patrol the city of Mound, said that around 7:10 a.m. Friday, they received a report of a suspicious vehicle. A 911 caller reported seeing a silver car, driving on a rim and with a back window smashed out.

The Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension have announced an arrest in the 2003 death of a newborn baby boy who was found in Lake Pepin in 2003. The woman—Jennifer Lynn Matter, 50, of Belvidere Township—was recently identified through DNA as the child’s mother.