A very rare instance where we award Minnesota Woman of the Week honors. Our story begins in June 2024, when the above Minnesota Identification Card was issued to one Mercedes…
Erick Jorge Diego Alvarez-Henandez, age 46, pled guilty in federal court in downtown St. Paul today to two felony counts: (1) illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien and (2)…
Last night, shortly after 11:30 p.m., shots rang out in Bar Zia in downtown Minneapolis. According to Fox 9 news, a 21-year-old male died at the scene, and three others…
Eduhi Raul Perea-Lizeaga, a/k/a Luis Roberto Diaz-Colon, is the latest addition to our Minnesota Man roster. He was taken into federal custody yesterday and is being held in the Sherburne…
Center of the American Experiment (CAE) joined the Minnesota Justice Research Center (MJRC) for a presentation to the Minneapolis City Council’s Public Health and Safety Committee on October 1. The joint…
German Tinoco-Perez, age 35, is scheduled to appear in federal court in downtown St. Paul this afternoon. He is charged with a felony count of illegal re-entry of a previously…
Minneapolis resurrects camera-based traffic citations On July 15, the City of Minneapolis announced the implementation of a new $12 million camera-based traffic citation system near five intersections this fall, with…
Criminal justice officials in Hennepin County are failing to use the new state statute and enhanced penalty specifically designed to help reduce violent carjackings. Given that 81 percent of all…
Because we have to rely on the New York Post to learn what’s happening in Minnesota: Bombshell ICE sweep in Minneapolis-St. Paul finds 50% of immigrants had committed immigration fraud…
There’s no free lunch The dollar figure for providing the controversial free school meal program to every K-12 student in the state so closely mirrors what it would cost to…
The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) is suing the state of Minnesota over its sanctuary state policies. From the DOJ press release. Today, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Minnesota, the…
The Minnesota Star Tribune noticed something today: More Minnesota counties are partnering with ICE Of course, in the Star Tribune‘s telling, the cooperation is motivated purely by greed for federal…
For most of 2025, Democratic politicians, from former Vice-Presidential candidate and current Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to a variety of Democratic members of Congress to California Governor Gavin Newsom, have…
Following recent mass shooting events in the Twin Cities area, some involving assault-style rifles, a renewed call for more gun control measures has emerged. Governor Walz has declared that he…
Francisco Estrada-Deltaro was sentenced today in federal court in downtown Minneapolis. We’ve written about Estrada several times now. He’s that restaurateur whose Lake Street eatery was at the epicenter of…
Friday morning in Minneapolis City Hall, police chiefs from across the county joined Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt to condemn the announcement from Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty that her…
Kevin Contreras-Contreras of Mexico is our Minnesota Man of the Week. He wins the Weekly honors on account of the utterly mundane nature of his case. It shows the system…
Hennepin County Attorney’s new policy to decline charges stemming from some traffic stops and consent searches Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced Wednesday that, effective October 15, her office will…
German Alexis Funez-Canelas pled guilty to one felony count of illegal re-entry of a previously deported illegal alien this morning in federal court in downtown Minneapolis. Prosecutors documented that Funez,…
Two Minnesota Dads were due in federal court for sentencing this morning. It was a close contest, but Jovany Eligio Martinez-Simon takes the Minnesota Dad of the Day honors, owing…
By the numbers It has been an awful month for public safety in Minneapolis. While data shows that year-to-date murders and many other crimes of violence are down compared to…
Two Minnesota men pled guilty, back-to-back, to illegal immigration felonies in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon. The hearings were scheduled consecutively on the court calendar. The overlapping hearings…
This morning at 11:20 a.m., police were called to a shots-fired call at Lake Street and I-35. The 2900 block of Stevens Avenue has become notorious for continuous drug dealing…
Abner Adiel Saravia-Arevalo is our Minnesota Man of the day. He appeared this morning in federal court in downtown St. Paul to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal…