WATCH: Minnesota Police Chief Gets Escort Home After Retiring
Yesterday in Plymouth, Mike Goldstein, who had put in 31 years on the job, retired as the Plymouth police chief. As a way to honor him, he was treated to a police and fire department escort on his way home from work, for the last time. Check this out!
Goldstein, maybe not a household name but maybe should be, as KSTP-TV reported that Goldstein took the mental health part of work seriously as he started with voluntary check-ins between his officers and a mental health professional. But it wasn t until back-to-back officer-involved shootings that he realized he had to do more.
Public Asked to Help Find Missing Rochester Teenager
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Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - The Rochester Police Department is requesting the public s assistance in locating a missing teenager.
Her family says 15-year-old Hermoine Schwartz has been missing since she left her Northwest Rochester residence on January 29th. She does not have her phone and has not had any contact with her family, but the police department says she has been accessing her social media accounts.
Hermoine is described as about 5 foot 4, 120 pounds, with blue eyes and dark shoulder-length hair that has been dyed blue and possibly worn in braids.
Goldstein took the mental health part of work seriously as he started with voluntary check-ins between his officers and a mental health professional. But it wasn't until back-to-back officer-involved shootings that he realized he had to do more.
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Brooklyn Center, MN (KROC-AM News) - Eight people have been charged with being involved in a Medicaid fraud scheme involving the theft of over $860,000.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says his office has filed a total of 46 counts of felony theft against the defendants. Ellison says Trenea Davis of Brooklyn Center has admitted to being the ringleader of the scheme and faces 11 charges.
She is accused of recruiting family members and friends to fake or exaggerate medical conditions to qualify them for the services of personal care assistants or PCAs. The alleged scheme also involved the recruitment of people to report providing services that never occurred. The criminal charges state Davis was paid for working as a PCA for more than 7,000 hours from December 2014 and then switched to being a patient requiring 12 hours of daily assistance.
Two More Minnesotans Admit to Torching Minneapolis Precinct HQ
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Minneapolis, MN (KROC-AM News) - Four Minnesota men have now pleaded guilty to federal charges for their involvement in the arson fires that destroyed the Minneapolis Police Department Third Precinct Headquarters.
Federal prosecutors say 25-year-old Davon Turner and 23-year-old Branden Wolfe each admitted today to one count of conspiracy to commit arson. Both men are from St. Paul. Wolfe is scheduled to be sentenced April 22nd and Turner s sentencing hearing has been scheduled on May 13th.
According to court records, Wolfe admitted lighting an incendiary device, namely a Molotov cocktail, that Turner used to start a fire after breaking into the building. Wolfe then pushed a barrel into another fire already said in the building in an effort to provide it with fuel.