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Police watchdog group says Minneapolis uses legal loophole to keep police misconduct from the public Andy Mannix, Star Tribune One Minneapolis police officer made a reckless turn and caused a "preventable" car crash. In a separate case, an officer failed to turn on his body camera while interviewing witnesses at a crime scene. Another officer used "inappropriate language" toward a victim of domestic assault and then never wrote a report on the call. In all of these cases of subs...

Rural Minnesota man who made illegal explosives for Hollywood and NFL sentenced to federal prison January 12, 2021 — 4:33pm Text size Copy shortlink: Federal agents arrested Kenneth Ray Miller, of Brownsville, after reading a profile about his business in Popular Science magazine. The article described Miller as a special-effects wizard who made chemical smoke bombs and sold them to the NFL, air shows, Hollywood movies, the military ...

Legal experts say the government must prioritize homegrown attackers, but some worry new laws could be abused to target protesters.

Man charged with holding up same Minnesota bank he just got out of prison for robbing James Richard Ardito was convicted in 2009 for robbing the same bank.  December 30, 2020 — 11:08am Text size Copy shortlink: A 51-year-old man faces federal charges for robbing the same central Minnesota bank he was convicted of holding up more than a decade ago. James Richard Ardito, of Andover, was charged with armed bank robbery in U.S. Distric...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | Dec 21, 2020 | News | 14 In the months since riots erupted in Minneapolis this summer, state and federal court documents have told a story that largely contradicts the widely disseminated narratives from Republican and Democratic politicians of what happened in that chaotic week. President Donald Trump blamed the violence in Minneapolis on radical leftists, saying “antifa” led the riots. Gov. Tim Walz warned that Minneapolis and St. Paul were “under assault�...

Boogaloo Bois member pleads guilty to trying to sell weapons to Hamas Andy Mannix, Star Tribune A member of the anti-government Boogaloo Bois pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to provide weapons to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, in the months following protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, could face up to 20 years in prison for the federal felony. Appearing via video and wearing orange jail garb, Teeter told the judg...

Brainerd man pleads guilty to helping light Third Precinct fire Another man pleaded guilty last month to the same charge.  December 15, 2020 — 12:04pm Text size Copy shortlink: A Brainerd man pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking part in lighting the Minneapolis Third Precinct police headquarters on fire during civil unrest after the death of George Floyd. On May 28, Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, 23, trampled over a fence meant to keep pr...

Illinois man found guilty in Minnesota mosque bombing A federal jury found Michael Hari guilty on all five counts for his role in planning the 2017 bombing at the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center. Author: Sherburne County Jail A federal jury has found the Illinois man accused in the 2017 bombing at a Bloomington mosque guilty on all the charges against him.  The jury, after half a day of deliberations and a five-week trial, found 49-year-old Michael Hari, of Clarence, Illinois, guilty for his rol...