Three men have been charged with burglary and assault in connection with a break-in and robbery of a South St. Paul residence that left the two occupants bloody and beaten.and
Once back inside the house, police found one victim with several wounds on his head and neck. The victim said he was attacked at gunpoint when the four suspects broke into their home. A second victim was unconscious and covered in blood from several head wounds. Both victims were transported to Regions hospital.
Authorities are looking for a person who entered a home while its occupants were sleeping and stole two wallets. According to the police report, the theft occurred in the 600 block of 12th Avenue Northwest sometime between 11 p.m. May 16 and 8:30 a.m. May 17, as two residents slept.
A man with a handgun busted into the home on the 1000 block of 173rd Lane NE early last Thursday morning, and took cash and other items from the couple who were there.
“They were awakened by the male, brandishing a gun and pointing it at the two complainants and demanding cash and property. He basically held them at bay with a gun while committing this crime,” said Commander Paul Sommer of the Anoka County Sheriff’s Department.The offender then gets caught when he tries to sell the camera on Craigslist.
On Wednesday, one of the victims noticed a listing for a camera on Craigslist that matched the one that had been stolen the week before.
“There’s virtually thousands of cameras listed on Craigslist,” said Commander Paul Sommer of the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office. “But there was a certain way (the victims) had attached a strap to their camera that made it unique to all the others out there, so they were fairly certain it was their camera.”
He called the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office, which set up a meeting with the seller, a 17-year-old boy from Andover.
An undercover officer met the teen at a McDonald’s, where the officer confirmed it was the stolen camera. The teen was arrested, and deputies say they found a gun in his car.
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“If this person at this age is willing to go to these extremes there’s no telling at what point he would have stopped,” Sommer added.
Nice follow through Anoka County Sheriff office! Reading between the lines, the kid did the robbery. Hopefully, they'll shut him down before he can move on to even bigger and worse crimes.
At 10:46 a.m., April 25, Carver County Sheriff's Office deputies were dispatched to the 900 block of Santa Vera Drive in Chanhassen for a report of a 1st degree burglary and assault. It appears that the suspect forced entry into the home through the locked front door, according to the Sheriff's Office The female victim in the residence was able to fight off her assailant and escape. The suspect eventually fled the home in an unknown direction, the release stated. ...
It sounds like the suspect is still at large as of mid May.
