Wednesday, May 9, 2012
A Fridley resident who has two prior domestic assault convictions is accused of throwing his girlfriend to the ground in downtown Hopkins.
Prosecutors arrested a 28-year-old Fridley man Sunday after witnesses in downtown Hopkins saw him grab his girlfriend and throw her to the ground, causing her to hit her head on the pavement. Officers arrived to find the woman crying as she sat against a building on the 1000 block of Mainstreet, according to charging documents prepared by Police Sgt. Mike Glassberg and filed Tuesday. She said she and Landon Gregory Braaten got into an argument while walking downtown and he pushed her to the ground. Medical personnel treated the woman for a head injury. Prosecutors charged Braaten with felony domestic assault, which carries a penalty of up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. In April, Braaten was convicted on separate charges of …
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1000 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Emily Kate Pieper is charged with child neglect and driving while impaired after her May 2 arrest.
A Hopkins woman was charged with child neglect after police said she left her two children, ages 18 months and 2 years, home alone while she drove drunk to a fast-food restaurant. After the woman's arrest, officers found the children at the Oak Park Lane home in their cribs, with the youngest child’s leg stuck between two slats in the crib, according to charging documents. Emily Kate Pieper, 29, is charged with child neglect, a gross misdemeanor with a penalty of up to a year in jail and a $3,000 fine, and fourth-degree DWI, a misdemeanor that carries a penalty of up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. Police were called to a report of a vehicle in the ditch just after midnight May 2, according to the criminal complaint, signed by …
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Taco Bell
819 Cambridge St, Hopkins, MN
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Police say Jerald Paul Delaney, of Hopkins, and Kathryn Ann Huelskamp, of Golden Valley, received a package containing almost 5 pounds of marijuana last week.
A Hopkins man and a Golden Valley woman are facing felony drug charges after police say they conspired to take delivery of a package containing almost 5 pounds of marijuana last week. Jerald Paul Delaney, 58, of Hopkins, and Kathryn Ann Huelskamp, 50, are each charged with fifth-degree drug sales, a felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $20,000 fine. According to the criminal complaints, compiled by Golden Valley Police Officer David Larson, a confidential informant told detectives on April 11 that a package of marijuana was going to be delivered to an apartment complex on Circle Down in Golden Valley, addressed to Delaney, whom the informant knew as “Bambo.” U.S. postal inspectors located the package and obtained a …
Friday, March 30, 2012
Edgar Solorio-Vasquez, 18, has been charged with simple robbery.
Prosecutors accuse a Minnetonka man of snatching a deposit bag from a Hance Hardware employee as she was dropping off the bag Dec. 2 at nearby U.S. Bank, according to charges filed Friday. The unidentified store employee told police a man approached her at 8:03 p.m. while she was headed to the bank’s night deposit box, Detective Raymond Laudenbach wrote in the criminal complaint. The man was wearing a dark, partially zipped hooded sweatshirt, a T-shirt with neon designs on it and a pink or purple bandana over his face, Laudenbach wrote. The employee said the man tried to grab the bag. The woman initially resisted but let go when the man said, “Give me the money.” The bag had $850 in cash and $2,200 in checks. A person matching the robber’s…
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U S Bank
16 9th Ave N, Hopkins, MN
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Steven Donald Oestreich faces charges of DUI, refusal to submit to a chemical test and obstructing the legal process with force.
A Hopkins man whose blood alcohol level is thought to have been more than three times the legal limit is accused of nearly running over a man and his children and then fighting officers who arrested him, according to charges filed Tuesday. Steven Donald Oestreich, 55, came to officers’ attention at 5:07 p.m. Sunday when a Hopkins Tavern on Main employee reported that a drunken man had driven away from the bar, according to charging documents written by Hopkins Detective Renee Meuwissen. The employee said he’d tried to take the man’s car keys but the man “took a swing” at him and drove away in a Dodge pickup. A credit card receipt indicated that the man was Oestreich. Police Sgt. Michael Glassberg later spoke with a man who said a Dodge …
Monday, February 27, 2012
Court records show the man has previous convictions for drunken driving, driving after revocation and driving after suspension.
“Hell yeah, I’m drunk!” That’s what a 29-year-old Minnetonka man told Hopkins police who pulled him over Friday following an encounter at the Holiday gas station where officers saw him staggering around the store after apparently having urinated on himself. Officers watched Michael Louis Neal pay for gas, leave the store and get into a vehicle, Officer Erik Husevold wrote in a criminal complaint filed Monday. They stopped him after he sat at a green turn arrow until it turned red and then turned without signaling onto eastbound Highway 7 at Texas Avenue South. Officers could smell alcohol coming from Neal, according to court documents. He failed several sobriety tests, and a breath test showed a blood alcohol level of .18 percent—more than…
Regina Aiken
2:14 pm on Saturday, March 31, 2012
So glad people were not afraid to do the right thing and turn this guy in. Too bad the guy couldn't think of a better way to make some money. What a waste! more ›