Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Man is suspected in Kingfield, St. Louis Park robberies.
Monday night, the Minneapolis Police Department announced an arrest in a quintet of bus station robberies in Minneapolis and St. Louis Park. Louis Larell Osborne, 20 years old, was nabbed after trying to rob a man waiting at a bus stop on the 600 block of 8th Street SE in Minneapolis, near the University of Minnesota. The victim was waiting for the bus, according to police, when the suspect approached, brandished a gun, and demanded the man's belongings. The victim was forced to give up his wallet, cell phone, and laptop. "Through cooperation with other agencies and through investigation, the suspect was charged with the robbery," the MPD announcement read. Osborne is suspected in three robberies in Southwest Minneapolis—two at the corner …
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Police arrested Justin Anthony Lawlor after smelling marijuana in his car.
A Watertown, MN man and an Excelsior, MN woman are facing numerous charges after police say they found a large quantity of methamphetamines in their car. Last Friday, a St. Louis Park Police cruiser stopped in at the Holiday gas station at the corner of Minnetonka Boulevard and Highway 100. According to a criminal complaint filed earlier this week by Hennepin County prosecutors, they smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the passengers of another car parked nearby. The driver told police she believed there was heroin in the car. Police searched the car, prosecutors say, finding 28.1 grams of methamphetamine and 8.2 grams of heroin. The average methamphetamine dose varies, but can be as small as 10 milligrams. While police …
Friday, March 8, 2013
Prosecutors say Troy Howard Sonksen was looking into the windows of apartment buildings in Bloomington.
On Tuesday, prosecutors charged a St. Louis Park man with privacy violations for allegedly peeking into several occupied apartments in Bloomington over the weekend. Troy Howard Sonksen faces one charge of Felony Interference with Privacy, which carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a $5,000 fine. According to the criminal complaint, Bloomington Police arrested Sonksen as they responded to a 911 call from an apartment complex in that city. The caller said a man matching Sonksen's description had been looking into several windows in the complex. The criminal complaint continues, saying the 911 caller saw Sonksen as they returned to their own apartment around 9:30 p.m. on Mar. 3. He went up to a first-floor apartment whose …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
David Vassily Robakevich faces attempted murder and domestic assault charges.
A St. Louis Park man sits behind bars today, facing charges he tried to murder his live-in ex-girlfriend last week. In the early morning hours of Feb. 28, according to prosecutors, David Vassily Robakevich, 25m crept up to his former girlfriend's bed as she lay there, and began whispering into her ear. He was going to kill her, he allegedly said. According to the criminal complaint, Robakevich then seized the woman's neck and began to strangle her while reciting prayers in Russian. Robakevich allegedly continued to throttle the woman until she passed out. She came to, feeling a warm trickle of her own urine flow down her leg. When Robakevich realized his first attempt to kill his former girlfriend hadn't worked, the criminal complaint says…
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Suspect has struck at least four times in two months.
A pair of armed robberies at bus stops in St. Louis Park and Southwest Minneapolis may be related, according to the Southwest Journal. The robberies occurred on Jan. 17 and Feb. 13 at the intersection of 46th Street and Bryant Ave South in Minneapolis, on Feb. 20 at the corner of Minnetonka Boulevard and Colorado Avenue in St. Louis Park, and on Feb. 21 at the corner of Minnetonka Boulevard and Hampshire Avenue in St. Louis Park. The victims in each case gave very similar descriptions of the man who mugged them: a young black man, about 5 feet, 5 inches tall, wearing a dark-colored mask and hoodie or puffy jacket, brandishing a pistol. As Patch reported last month, the St. Louis Park High School went into an hour-long lockdown after …
Monday, March 4, 2013
A roundup of crimes and incidents reported to the St. Louis Park Police Department Jan. 29 to Feb. 7.
Jan. 29 A couple living on the 1600 block of Hampshire Avenue returned home around 6:30 p.m. to discover nearly $9,000 in home goods—including several televisions and mink coats—were missing. The couple told St. Louis Park police the culprits seemed to seek out specific, partially hidden items, and so they might know who was responsible. A woman living on 3500 block of Aquila Avenue called police at 3:40 a.m. to deal with her drunk roommate. The roommate, according to the caller, was being loud and would not leave her alone and go to bed. Police convinced the roommate to go to bed. A 74-year old woman reported missing by her granddaughter at 7 a.m. showed up at home and in good health at 9 a.m. The older woman, a personal care assistant, …
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Roy Depaul Crawford, Jr. accused of strangling girlfriend.
Friday afternoon, Hennepin County attorneys filed domestic assault charges against a Burnsville man for allegedly trying to strangle his girlfriend, a St. Louis Park resident. According to the criminal complaint, Roy Depaul Crawford, Jr.'s girlfriend called police to her apartment on the 8300 block of West 30th 1/2 Street on Feb. 14. The woman was "distraught and missing a chunk of her own hair," the criminal complaint says. She told officers her boyfriend had been trying to leave the apartment with her car keys following an argument between the two. The argument quickly resumed and became physical. Crawford allegedly pulled his girlfriend's shirt over her face and punched her several times. He then grabbed the woman's neck and began …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Police say the same man is a suspect in a similar incident Wednesday.
Correction 2:26 p.m. 2/21/13: This story previously incorrectly stated the St. Louis Park Police Department requested that St. Louis Park High School go into lockdown. The St. Louis Park High School was put on lockdown for an hour Thursday morning as city police combed the area looking for an armed robber. A little before 6:30 a.m., police received a report of an armed robbery near a bus stop at the corner of Minnetonka Boulevard and Hampshire Avenue. The suspect, described as a black man about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and wearing a dark-colored mask and hoodie, brandished a pistol at a pedestrian and demanded their phone and wallet. According to schools spokesperson Sarah Thompson, the high school went into lockdown at 6:30 a.m., as police …
A roundup of incidents reported to St. Louis Park Police Jan. 18-27.
Around lunch time on Jan. 22, a resident of an apartment complex on the 2500 block of Highway 100 found every body panel on his Mercedes had been scratched overnight—using a fork, according to St. Louis Park police records. The culprits also had managed to gain entry to the car and cut every leather surface in the vehicle, from seats to dashboard. The man refused to let crime lab technicians examine the vehicle for evidence, as he was "too busy." Jan. 18 Graffiti artists tagged the vestibule and stairwell of an apartment complex on the 2500 block of Highway 100. Burglars struck a business on the 4300 block of Highway 7 overnight. Three laptops were stolen, along with eight Timberwolves season tickets. Jan. 21 A drunk driver collided head-…
Saturday, January 26, 2013
A selection of crimes and incidents reported by the St. Louis Park Police Department Dec. 31 to Jan. 10.
If you tend to listen to conventional wisdom, you might expect car thieves to be interested in expensive cars, not soccer-mom-mobiles. However, in three separate incidents on Jan. 3 and Jan. 5, criminals tried to steal minivans in St. Louis Park, according to St. Louis Park police records. The targeted vehicles were parked on the 2600 block of Toledo Ave South, the 2700 block of Utica Ave South, and the 2700 block of Louisiana Ave South. In all three cases, criminals broke a window to gain access to the van and then attacked the ignition, either punching it or trying to pry it out of the steering column. Typically, such damage can cost upwards of $1,000 to repair. It's not clear what saved the first two vehicles, but a police report notes…
manny camilon
8:23 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Excellent Police work and cooperation!! Manny C. more ›