Two staffers at a Minnesota daycare have been arrested after they were seen on surveillance video inflicting “exceptionally shocking” abuse on three babies in their care. Chloe Kaye Johnson, 24, and Elizabeth Augusta Wiemerslage, 22, were chaged with malicious punishment of a child under 4, assault against a victim under 4, and two counts of …
A Minnesota state trooper with a history crashes involving high speed or inattentive driving in his squad car has been charged with manslaughter and vehicular homicide in a crash that killed an 18-year-old cheerleader in May. Shane Elroy Roper, 32, also faces charges of reckless driving and five counts of criminal vehicular operation, Olmsted County …
Prosecutors this week charged a Minnesota couple with murder in th edeath of a 3-year-old boy they were caring for in March. Rosa Esperanza Garza, 24, and Shiann Lynn Erickson, 22, have been charged with second degree murder while committing felony child neglect and endangerment, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The autopsy report for …
Two Minnesotans have been arrested in connection with the shooting last week of a 6-year-old boy in Wabasha County. The county sheriff’s office said Raymond Tony Duque and Nicole Lynn McGee were arrested Tuesday following the shooting incident on June 25. The sheriff’s office said a loaded shotgun was left unsecured in a vehicle with …
Minnesota sheriff’s deputies, investigating a single car crash on Saturday, found a dead woman in the back seat of the vehicle and arrested the driver for interference with a dead body. The Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office said the accident happened just before 7 a.m. on Saturday on Interstate 90, south of Rochester. When they arrived, …
Police in Minnesota organized a volunteer search for a missing 4-year-old boy on Monday after asking the public to steer clear of the ara a day earlier. An emergency alert was issued for Waeys Mohamed on Sunday after he wander away from his home in Hopkins at about 7:30 a.m. The boy has autism and …
A Minnesota man has been charged with butchering his pregnant sister last week. The mother of 30-year-old Bethany Ann Israel called 911 late Thursday night, saying her daughter had gone out to dinner with her brother, KSTP reported. She said she drove to Israel’s home, saw the brother quickly leaving, and then found blood when …
A Tennessee truck driver was watching Netflix in the cab of his truck before a fatal crash last year on Interstate 35 in Minnesota, authorities say. Billy Joe Grimes”I just didn’t have time to stop, I didn’t have time to react, and I couldn’t stop the truck,” while alleging that an abrupt lane change ahead …
Two police officers and a medic were fatally shot Sunday while responding to a domestic incident in Minnesota. Details about what happened were limited early Sunday afternoon, but Gov. Tim Walz said in a statement that authorities were called to the city of Burnsville, about 15 miles south of Minneapolis, for a report of “a …
A Minneapolis teenager shot his father and another man Saturday morning before killing himself. Minneapolis police have not released the names of the victims and said the medical examiner will release the 18-year-old suspect’s name along with the cause and manner of death, KMSP reported. Police responded to the home on the city’s southeast side, …
a 30-year-old Minnesota man has been indicted in federal court with more than a dozen counts of child pornography in a sextortion scheme involving more than 60 young girls across the United States and abroad. Court documents say that Valentin Silva Quintana used social media apps to threaten, manipulate, and exploit the girls, who were …
A Minnesota grand jury brought a three-count indictment against a mand who allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend just days after he was released from jail for assaulting her twice. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said that Matthew Scott Brenneman, 39, was indicted on one count of first degree murder and two counts of second degree murder. …
