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2 people charged in separate Minneapolis homicides that happened hours apart
A woman is accused of stabbing a man in the chest over $60, while a man is accused of accidentally shooting a victim on the man s birthday.
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Angelique Simons, 47, of Minneapolis, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Joseph Pixley, 40, on Jan. 22.
Hours before, Prince Brown, 36, of Minneapolis, allegedly fatally shot David Spicer, 38, on Brown s birthday, Jan. 21. He is charged with second-degree unintentional murder.
They both were expected to make their first court appearances in Hennepin County District Court on Tuesday.
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Simons on Jan. 22 told Pixley to come to a home on the 2000 block of Queen Ave. N., with Pixley arriving shortly before 4 a.m., charges state.
Judge denies motion to admit George Floyd s 2019 arrest as evidence at trial
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MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A Hennepin County District Court judge ruled this week that George Floyd’s 2019 arrest in Minneapolis and the accompanying body camera footage depicting supposedly similar, evasive behavior with police cannot be admitted as evidence at the upcoming trials of the four Minneapolis police officers charged in Floyd’s death.
Judge Peter Cahill denied the defense’s motion to admit at trial evidence relating to Floyd’s 2019 arrest and his subsequent admission to the Hennepin County Medical Center as well as his 2007 conviction for aggravated robbery in Texas.
8 people accused in Minnesota Medicaid fraud scheme Follow Us
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Eight people accused in scheme to bilk the state’s Medicaid program out of more than $860,000 were charged Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court with a combined 46 counts of felony theft.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the alleged ringleader of the fraud, Trenea Davis, of Brooklyn Center, faces 11 felony theft charges. Authorities say she told investigators she recruited friends and family members to fake or exaggerate medical conditions to qualify for personal care assistant services. She then enlisted others to charge for services that never occurred.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Eight people accused in scheme to bilk the state’s Medicaid program out of more than $860,000 were charged Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court with a combined 46 counts of felony theft.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the alleged ringleader of the fraud, Trenea Davis, of Brooklyn Center, faces 11 felony theft charges. Authorities say she told investigators she recruited friends and family members to fake or exaggerate medical conditions to qualify for personal care assistant services. She then enlisted others to charge for services that never occurred.
Investigators said Davis reported working as a personal care assistant for more than 7,000 hours from December 2014 to May 2018, then switched to the role of a patient who needed up to 12 hours of care a day.