Woman dies in Aitkin County following DWI charge
Karen Maki died at Riverwood Health Care Center five days after being charged with third degree driving while intoxicated.
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A 64-year-old woman died Sunday, April 4, just days after being charged with third-degree driving while intoxicated following an Aitkin County crash.
The Aitkin County Sheriff’s Office responded at 11 a.m. March 30 to a report of a vehicle in the ditch in Beaver Township, southeast of McGregor.
The driver of the vehicle, Karen I. Maki, refused treatment from McGregor Ambulance staff. Maki exhibited signs of intoxication and emitted an odor of alcohol, the sheriff’s office reported. A preliminary breath test revealed an alcohol concentration level of 0.20%. Maki was subsequently arrested and transported to the Aitkin County Jail on charges of third-degree DWI.
Aitkin County man pleads guilty to murder in strangulation death
Joshua Karjala, 36, pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder in the death of Michelle Mae during a plea hearing in Aitkin County District Court in Aitkin, Minn. A jury trial for Karjala was scheduled to begin June 14. However, Karjala pleaded guilty to the murder charge in an amended criminal complaint.
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Joshua Emil Karjala
AITKIN, Minn. A 36-year-old Swatara, Minn., man admitted in court Thursday, April 15, to being the one responsible for the strangulation death of a 35-year-old Outing, Minn., woman
Joshua Karjala pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder in the death of Michelle Mae in front of Judge David F. Hermerding during a plea hearing in Aitkin County District Court in Aitkin, Minn. A jury trial for Karjala was scheduled to begin June 14. However, Karjala pleaded guilty to the murder charge in an am
Swatara man pleads guilty to murder in strangulation death
“. I assume the police were going to be coming to my house. I grabbed all my drugs and I tried eating them. I ate probably roughly 2 grams of meth laced with ecstasy, and I blacked out . When I woke up I panicked. I tried hiding her body, the Swatara man told the court during a plea agreement hearing.
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Joshua Emil Karjala
AITKIN A 36-year-old Swatara man admitted Thursday, April 15, to being the one responsible for the strangulation death of a 35-year-old Outing woman during a plea hearing in Aitkin County District Court in Aitkin.