FRIDAY, JUNE 24
http://abcnewspapers.com/2011/06/24/home-invasion-armed-robbery-in-coon-rapids/
Five men were robbed at gunpoint by three masked men at a Coon Rapids residence late Thursday night (June 23).
According to the Coon Rapids Police report, five men, all in their 20s, were standing in an open garage at a home on the 9300 block of Foley Boulevard shortly after 11:30 p.m. when three black males wearing dark clothing and ski masks confronted them, one of them armed with a handgun.
07/18/2011
http://kstp.com/article/stories/s2204245.shtml
Once inside, police say they assaulted the homeowners and stole about $1,500. Then they say Howard drank a bottle of beer from the refrigerator.
Police matched DNA on the bottle to Howard.
May 12, 2011
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/121714909.html
The three daytime burglaries involved forced entries, and in two cases phone lines were cut, police said Thursday. Jewelry was taken in two of the incidents. In a third incident on Tuesday, a female homeowner surprised a man in her front hallway and he turned and ran out of the home.
http://www.startribune.com/local/122881648.html/
A 52-year-old man with a long rap sheet was charged Tuesday with killing a woman who stumbled upon him as he was burglarizing her home in rural central Minnesota.
Jeffery A. Brooks, of Alexandria, Minn., was charged with second-degree murder in the May 20 killing of Diane Fortenberry, 51, at her family's home southwest of Osakis. A medical examiner's report said that Fortenberry died from "blunt force trauma" that left her lifeless body bleeding from the head.
