Police Looking For Man In Edina ATM Break-In
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Authorities are looking for a man who they believe attempted to break into an ATM machine in Edina back in the middle of May. The Edina Police Department is asking for the public’s...
View ArticleME: Woman Found In Trunk Of Car Died From ‘Unspecified’ Homicide
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Hennepin County Medical Examiner says the 24-year-old Georgia woman found dead in a trunk last month died as a result of “homicide by unspecified means.” The medical examiner...
View ArticleMan Pleads Guilty In Unusual Child Porn Case
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to charges in a Fargo-Moorhead child pornography case that was sparked by a lost cell phone. Thirty-two-year-old Dustin Muscha, of Moorhead, Minn., pleaded...
View Article$500 Worth Of Plants Stolen In Mpls
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Keep an eye on those annuals and perennials. Plant thieves took flowers and hanging baskets from a home in the Linden Hills neighborhood on Tuesday night. Jeanne Long said she...
View ArticleShoreview Shooting Under Investigation As Neighbors, Colleagues Grieve
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department is continuing to investigate Tuesday’s shooting in Shoreview that left two dead and two injured. Authorities believe Johnny Simpson shot and...
View ArticlePolice Release Accent Signage Crime Scene Photos
WEB EXTRA: Accent Signage Scene Gallery MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Take a look at the scene inside last fall’s deadly workplace shooting in Minneapolis. On Wednesday, Minneapolis police released hundreds of...
View ArticleCambridge Pastor Sentenced For Sexual Assault
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 55-year-old pastor from Cambridge, Minn., was sentenced Wednesday to 160 days in prison and 10 years of probation for sexually assaulting a mentee. Ryan Jay Muehlhauser had...
View ArticleAfter 18 Years, Team Continues Search For Jodi Huisentruit
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — She was a beautiful, blonde TV anchor that went missing nearly two decades ago. Jodi Huisentruit was declared legally dead in 2001. She would have turned 45 on Wednesday. No one...
View ArticlePolice: 1 In Custody After Woman Found Dead In Mankato
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Authorities in Mankato said one person is in custody after a woman was found dead and a man was hurt following an incident at a residence Thursday morning. Police responded to the...
View ArticleCoon Rapids Man Accused Of Distributing, Possessing Child Porn
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 54-year-old Coon Rapids man faces multiple child porn charges after a federal indictment was unsealed earlier this week, the Department of Justice said. Guy Edward Wheelock is...
View ArticleATF Probes Wis. DOJ Agent Gun Sales
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal investigators are looking into allegations that the former head of the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation’s Superior field office has been selling guns without a...
View ArticleMan Pleads Guilty To Assault He Was Too High To Remember
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 43-year-old Minneapolis man has pleaded guilty to forcing a woman to give him oral sex, but he says he doesn’t remember breaking into the woman’s home last year and committing...
View ArticleHighly Potent Heroin Has Tight Grip On Metro
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Heroin deaths in the Twin Cities are on pace to hit a new record this year. So far in 2013, 15 people have died from heroin overdose in Hennepin, Scott, and Dakota counties. It...
View ArticleSynthetic Drugs Hearing Scheduled In Duluth
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson and a committee of state lawmakers will be talking about synthetic drugs in Duluth. Swanson and the newly formed Committee on Controlled...
View ArticlePolice: Suspect Arrested In Mankato Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Police in Mankato have arrested a suspect after a woman was found dead and a man was injured in an incident Thursday morning. Police responded to the incident on the 1400 block of...
View ArticleSkeletal Remains Found In Iron Range ID’d, Cause Of Death Still Unknown
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The St. Louis County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the skeletal remains of a 56-year-old man whose body was found on the Iron Range in early May. Barnabas R. Kalina Jr.’s...
View ArticleDrug Recognition Program Revamped After Controversy
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Big changes are in store for a program meant to help law enforcement take impaired drivers off the streets. State leaders are revamping the Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE) training...
View ArticlePolice Say Uptown Shooting Investigation Is Complete, But Not Much Else
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Minneapolis Police Department announced Friday that the investigation into last month’s officer-involved shooting in Uptown, which left a 22-year-old man dead, is complete. But...
View ArticleSkeletal Remains Found In Woods In Blue Earth Co.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Blue Earth County deputies found the skeletal remains of a body Thursday, authorities said, in a heavily wooded, rural area of South Bend Township. The remains have not been...
View ArticleCops: Wis. Woman Drove Under The Influence, Crashed With Kid In Car
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Wisconsin state troopers arrested a Hayward, Wis., woman Friday after she allegedly drove intoxicated and crashed her car with her 4-year-old child inside it. The child was not...
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