Category Archives: Crime
St. Cloud Police Department to Get New Breath Testing Equipment
(KNSI) - The St. Cloud Police Department says it will be getting its own breath testing instrument and equipment from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Now, officers from the St. Cloud Po...
Feb 28, 2022 Unsplash
Man Wants Murder Confession Thrown Out
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) - A Minnesota man accused of stabbing his wife to death while six children were upstairs watching TV asked a judge Friday to throw out a confession he made after his arrest in W...
Feb 28, 2022 Unsplash
Clear Lake Man Sentenced for Sexual Assault
(KNSI) - A 54-year-old Clear Lake man was sentenced to three years in prison for sexually assaulting a girl younger than 15. According to a press release from the Sherburne County Attorney, Shawn Alan...
Feb 24, 2022 Sherburne County Attorney
Three Former Minneapolis Police Officers Convicted of Federal Civil Rights Violations
(KNSI) - Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with depriving George Floyd of his civil rights have been found guilty on all counts. J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao were all c...
Feb 24, 2022 Hennepin County Jail via AP Photos
Suspect Charged in Fatal Shooting of Nine-Year-old Trinity Ottoson-Smith
Originally posted 3:51 p.m. February 23rd, 2022 Updated 1:04 p.m. February 24th, 2022 (KNSI) - Charges have now been filed against the suspect accused of shooting nine-year-old Trinity Ottoson-Smith a...
Feb 24, 2022 Go Fund Me
Governor Tim Walz Launches Statewide Public Safety Tour
(KNSI) - Governor Tim Walz Wednesday embarked on a statewide public safety tour to listen to residents and law enforcement concerns and tout his $300 million public safety spending bill. The budget in...
Feb 24, 2022 Governor Tim Walz Press Office
Arrest Made After a Sauk Rapids Man Was Stabbed
(KNSI) - A 21-year-old from St. Cloud is now charged with five felonies after an altercation that left a man with a life-threatening stab wound. According to a criminal complaint filed in Benton Count...
Feb 24, 2022 Benton County Jail
Judge Seals Juror Names in Ex-Cops' Civil Rights Trial
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The judge overseeing the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights ordered Wednesday that the names of the jur...
Feb 24, 2022 Unsplash
Jury Ends 1st Day With No Verdict for 3 Cops in Floyd Killing
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A jury that appears to be all-white wrapped up its first day of deliberations Wednesday without a verdict in the federal trial of three fired Minneapolis police officers charged...
Feb 23, 2022 Unsplash
Charges Filed in Fatal Crash That Killed Melrose Man
(KNSI) - Prosecutors in Hennepin County say a 20-year-old driver had ten drinks before driving the wrong way on a Twin Cities freeway, causing a fatal head-on crash. According to the Minnesota State P...
Feb 23, 2022 Unsplash