Golden Valley Police Investigating Carjacking At Theodore Wirth Golf Club
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Police say a man was carjacked at gunpoint at a golf club in Minneapolis last week. It happened June 1 around 2 p.m. at Theodore Wirth Golf Club. A man was backing his 2015 black...
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Charges: Pablo Jaimes Shot At Officers During Pursuit With Pregnant Wife In Car
RAMSEY COUNTY, Minn. (WCCO) — A 30-year-old Minneapolis man was with his pregnant wife when he allegedly shot at police officers in a vehicle pursuit in Ramsey County earlier this month. Pablo Jaimes...
View Article5 Teens Cited After Allegedly Assaulting Student In St. Cloud High School...
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (WCCO) – Five teens received citations for fifth-degree assault following an incident at Apollo High School in St. Cloud last week. The St. Cloud Police Department says the school’s...
View ArticleFmr. Renaissance Fair Manager Acquitted Of Sexual Assault Charges
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 63-year-old former manager at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival has been acquitted of sexual assault charges. According to court documents, Carr Hagerman was acquitted of two...
View ArticleTeen Arrested After Allegedly Assaulting Woman Inside Brooklyn Park Home
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (WCCO) — A teenager was arrested in Brooklyn Park on Wednesday after reportedly assaulting a homeowner when she unexpectedly found the boy inside her house. Police in the suburb...
View ArticleMan Arrested In Minnesota In Alabama Slaying
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A man wanted in a gunshot killing that occurred last year in Alabama has been arrested in Minnesota, police said Wednesday. Javontae Mitchell, 18, was captured last week near the...
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Man Arrested For Allegedly Selling Drugs In Northern Minnesota Woman’s Fatal...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 32-year-old man was arrested this week after being charged in the death of a northern Minnesota woman who fatally overdosed last year. Cordaro Ware was charged in April with...
View ArticleNorthern Minnesota Man Gets 5 Years Behind Bars For Getting Girl Intoxicated,...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A northern Minnesota man was sentenced this week to more than five years in federal prison for sexually assaulting a girl nearly three years ago. The U.S. Attorney’s Office...
View ArticleDuluth Police Chief Mike Tusken Retires After 30-Plus Years Of Service
DULUTH, MINN. (WCCO) – Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken announced Wednesday that he is retiring from the Duluth Police Department. Tusken’s last day will be August 1, 2022. He has served the city of...
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Charges: Minneapolis Men Targeted Uber, Lyft Drivers In Carjacking Spree
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A pair of Minneapolis men face 20 criminal charges, including conspiracy, in connection to a string of armed carjackings involving rideshare drivers last fall. The U.S. Attorney’s...
View ArticleFormer Minneapolis Cop Gets 3 Years For Stealing Drugs During Traffic Stops
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A former Minneapolis police officer convicted of stealing drugs during traffic stops was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank...
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La Crosse Police Seize $1M In Drugs, Arrest 26-Year-Old Man
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WCCO) — More than $1 million worth of drugs and several guns are off the streets thanks to a major bust in western Wisconsin Monday. La Crosse police say officers confiscated 1 pound...
View ArticleCBS News: How To Watch The House Jan. 6 Committee Public Hearing
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold the first of at least six public hearings in a rare prime-time session Thursday evening to show the American...
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Charges: Man Made 80+ Recordings In Minnesota State Fair Bathroom Stalls
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — A Minneapolis man is accused of illegally filming dozens of men inside a Minnesota State Fair bathroom last summer. The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office says Kurtis Michael Neu,...
View ArticleMinnesota Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Case Challenging Minneapolis...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — The Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a case involving the Minneapolis Police Department’s staffing levels and whether city leaders have properly funded...
View ArticleWhat We Know About The 17 From Minnesota, Wisconsin Charged In Jan. 6...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The first of several new public hearings will lay out the findings of the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation into the storming of the U.S. Capitol. This comes almost a year and a...
View Article‘It’s A Big Ask’: January 6 Hearings Begin As Public Interest Wanes, Cases...
By Jonah Kaplan MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, took place more than 1,000 miles from the Twin Cities, but a special congressional committee is hoping the riots...
View Article‘They’re Making Progress’: Mayor Frey Applauds Minneapolis Police For Getting...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Even though there are fewer officers on the force, Minneapolis police have taken hundreds of guns off the street. “We have police officers that have gotten over 400 guns off the...
View ArticleMan Dealing Meth Out Of Motorhome Sentenced To 27 Years
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Minnesota man accused of dealing drugs out of a motorhome has been sentenced to 27 years in prison, according to federal authorities in South Dakota. A federal indictment...
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Rideshare Carjackings Plummet In Minneapolis, St. Paul
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Carjackings have plagued communities across the Twin Cities, but investigators say the surge is starting to subside. Many times, rideshare drivers were the targets. Shaheen Yasir...
View ArticlePlymouth Police Investigate Deadly Gas Station Shooting
PLYMOUTH, Minn. (WCCO) — Police in Plymouth are investigating a deadly shooting Thursday evening at a gas station. Officers were called to the business on the 9600 block of 36th Avenue North at about...
View ArticlePolice: Man In His 30s Killed In N. Mpls. Shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A man believed to be in his 30s is dead after a shooting in north Minneapolis Thursday evening, according to police. Just before 10 p.m., Minneapolis police officers responded to a...
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Northwestern Minnesota Man Charged With Killing Wife Attempts Escape From Prison
PENNINGTON COUNTY, Minn. (WCCO) – A northwestern Minnesota man who was charged for fatally stabbing his wife is accused of assaulting corrections officers during an attempted escape from prison. Eric...
View Article17-Year-Old To Stand Trial As Adult In Edina, St. Louis Park Carjackings
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 17-year-old from Minneapolis will stand trial as an adult in a pair of carjackings that happened in December 2021 in Edina and St. Louis Park. Hennepin County Attorney Mike...
View ArticleState Leaders, Advocates Commemorate New Law Named For Abby Honold
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — Advocates and state leaders are celebrating a new law named for a Minnesota rape survivor. It’s designed to improve how law enforcement responds to cases of domestic violence...
View ArticleYears Later, No Arrests In Minneapolis Carjacking That Left Victim In Wheelchair
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minneapolis carjacking victim wants answers and an arrest. It’s been two summers since Ben Schmid was shot 16 times in a hellacious ordeal. Schmid is miraculously alive after...
View ArticleHead Of Wisconsin Parole Agency Quits At Behest Of Gov. Evers
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Parole Commission Chairman John Tate resigned Friday, a month after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers made a hasty appeal to Tate in the midst of Republican criticism over...
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1 Killed, 1 Injured In Minneapolis Shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A man was killed and another was injured in a shooting early Saturday morning in Minneapolis. Police say that around 3:20 a.m., they found a car in the median of the 1500 block of...
View ArticleMan Charged In South Minneapolis Fatal Shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 30-year-old man has been charged with fatally shooting a man in Minneapolis in April. Dajohn Cortez Ramon Yarborough faces one charge of second-degree murder and one charge of...
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2 Hurt After Shooting Outside Brooklyn Park Barber Shop
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (WCCO) — Police are investigating Saturday after two people were hurt in a shooting outside a Brooklyn Park barber shop. Authorities in the suburb north of Minneapolis say the...
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Firefighters Find Body Inside Minneapolis Apartment; Police Make Arrest
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minneapolis police are investigating the city’s 41st homicide of the year after a man was found dead inside an apartment south of downtown Sunday morning. Firefighters were first...
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‘Operation Safe Summer’: An Exclusive Look Inside Minneapolis Police’s...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Increased gun violence, carjackings and assaults on Minneapolis streets are the focus of a Safe Summer initiative led by the Minneapolis Police Department. Operation Safe Summer...
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$5,000 Reward Offered In 2020 Murder Of Jacob Hunter In Red Lake
RED LAKE, Minn. (WCCO) — A $5,000 reward is being offered in hopes that it will help solve the 2020 murder of Jacob Hunter in Red Lake. According to the FBI Minneapolis Field Office, Hunter was...
View Article97 Arrests In Multi-Agency Crackdown On Crime In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — WCCO is giving you an inside look at the teamwork it takes to tackle crime in Minneapolis. Recently, WCCO’s Reg Chapman rode along with police for a first-hand look at Operation...
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Nicholas Enger’s Family Still Seeks Justice 1 Year After Fatal Shooting At...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Sad, frustrated, and changed forever. A Cambridge family says that’s how they feel one year after their beloved teenager was killed. Nicholas Enger had driven down to the Twin...
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Parents Of Shot 3-Year-Old Charged With Child Endangerment
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The parents of a 3-year-old boy injured in a shooting in Minneapolis earlier this month have been charged. The shooting happened June 5, at about 9 p.m. The boy’s parents brought...
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Mitchell Hamline Accepts Incarcerated Person To Law Program
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — When classes begin at Mitchell Hamline School of Law this fall, the incoming class will include Maureen Onyelobi, who is currently incarcerated. Onyelobi will be the first...
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St. Paul Police Investigate City’s 20th Homicide Of 2022
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — St. Paul police are investigating the city’s 20th homicide of the year. Police say a man in his 40s was killed Monday evening in the North End neighborhood. (credit: CBS)...
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2 Charged In Gang-Related Double Homicide In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Two people have been charged in connection with a double homicide in Minneapolis that authorities say was gang-related. Court documents show Deijuan McCaleb-Robinson is charged...
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Woman Fatally Shot While Inside RV In North Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Police say a woman was fatally shot while inside an RV in north Minneapolis Tuesday morning. Just before 10 a.m., the Minneapolis Police Department responded to the 1300 block of...
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