Nicolas Lopez-Juarez, age 28, billed out of St. James, then St. Peter, then Melrose, is our Minnesota Man of the week. A Guatemalan national, Lopez has been charged with one…
Eduardo Solis-Perez, age 32, is in custody, thanks to the work of the U.S. Marshals service. As recounted in a press release issued yesterday: Minneapolis man wanted for Prostitution of…
Ley Enrique Ortiz-Calleja, age 29, was arguing his case this morning at the Federal Courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Your correspondent was there. Mr. Ortiz is an early frontrunner for…
As far as I can tell from my deep dive into the illegal immigration issue here in Minnesota, the Feds really are concentrating their efforts on the worst cases. Illegal…
Abymahel Torres-Arriaga, age 36, appears to be on his way back to his native Veracruz, Mexico, after pleading guilty this afternoon in federal court in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was…
Vance Boelter, 57, stands charged in both federal and state court related to the murders of Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their Brooklyn Park home, and…
Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, age 39, made a brief (6-minute) court appearance this morning at the Federal Courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Your correspondent was there. You will recall that Munoz…
Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, now age 36, pled guilty to one count of attempted bribery of a juror at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis this morning. Your correspondent was there.…
On a cold, rainy morning, a third guilty plea was entered into the juror bribery case arising out of the first Feeding Our Future trial. Your correspondent was there at…
A jury found two Feeding Our Future defendants guilty of all charges this afternoon, after a six-week trial at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis. Deliberations lasted (at most) five hours.…
On Wednesday, March 12, Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer testified in the Minnesota House Public Safety Committee in support of HF 16. You can see a write-up of the hearing…
According to jail records, Abdinasir Abshir was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals on Friday and is being held in the Sherburne County jail. Abshir made a brief appearance…
Local law enforcement officials continue to wrestle with the quandary of how to handle illegal immigrants in custody and the legal questions raised by cooperation with federal Immigration and Customs…
In the Winter 2024 issue of our magazine Thinking Minnesota, I wrote about the “Minnesota Miracle” of 1978 which saw, among other outcomes, the election of a tied state House,…
Minneapolis records the 7th murder in and around homeless encampments in 10 months This past weekend three people were fatally shot, and three others were wounded in two separate shooting…
Minneapolis man’s violent crime spree leaves one dead and another injured in outstate Minnesota. On Tuesday, a 25-year-old Minneapolis man named Ameer Matariyeh assaulted his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend…
The first prison sentence in the sprawling free-food scandal was handed down this afternoon in the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Mohamed Jama Ismail, aged 51, defendant No. 16 in…
The end of Monday’s free-food trial session was as dramatic as its early morning beginning. Monday morning, I wrote about the revelation that Sunday night, a Somali woman visited the…
The modern coach-style tour bus parked in front of a south metro suburban hotel gave little hint as to the epic journey it had just completed. The blue and white…
HF 2860, if passed into law, would make Minnesota the nation’s 13th sanctuary state. The bill was introduced by Rep. Sandra Feist (DFL-New Brighton), the Vice Chair of the House…
One of the last of the great pre-war movie palaces closed for good a year ago. I visit the scene. Representing and located at the heart of Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood,…
Interview: Scholar Heather Mac Donald on how Black Lives Matters activists have weakened policing in high-crime neighborhoods.