Cops: 2 Arrested In Connection With Kelliher Bank Robbery
KELLIHER, Minn. (WCCO) – Authorities have arrested two men in connection with a Dec. 10 bank robbery in Kelliher, Minn. The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office said the robbery took place at the First...
View ArticleHennepin County To Take Crime Tips By Smartphone
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities in Hennepin County have launched a smartphone app for crime tips. The app lets citizens send crime tips to the sheriff anonymously. It’s available for both iPhone and...
View ArticleWis. Man Arrested For Suspected 7th OWI
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A Janesville man has been arrested on suspicion of his seventh drunken-driving charge. The Rock County sheriff’s office says the 45-year-old man was speeding early Wednesday...
View ArticlePolice: Mpls. Sexual Assault Suspect Arrested
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 43-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the sexual assault of a woman in Minneapolis, according to Minneapolis Police. On Dec. 8, police responded to the area of 34th...
View ArticleCharges: Man Kidnaps Girlfriend, Threatens To Kill Her
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 27-year-old man has been charged with kidnapping, terroristic threats and false imprisonment after police say he trapped his girlfriend in his car and threatened to kill her....
View ArticleReward Offered In Search For St. Paul Highland Bank Robber
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – Police are offering a reward for information that leads to the arrest of a robbery suspect who stole from a St. Paul bank on Thursday afternoon. According to the St. Paul...
View ArticleMan Sentenced For Role In Bingo Hall Armed Robbery
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 32-year-old St. Paul man was sentenced on Thursday for his role in the armed robbery of the Pot O’ Gold Bingo Hall in Arden Hills. Antonyo Dewayne Johnson was sentenced to a...
View ArticleAfter Ryan Larson Interview, Questions Still Linger In Cold Spring
COLD SPRING, Minn. (WCCO) — The city of Cold Spring, Minn. is reacting to WCCO-TV’s exclusive interview with the person arrested then released after the death of one of their police officers....
View ArticleSearch For Missing Woman Resumes At 9 A.M. Friday
CHISAGO, Minn. (WCCO) — More than 300 volunteers are desperately hoping to find a woman who’s been missing for five days. Sheriff’s deputies found 27-year-old Danielle Jelinek’s car, purse, cell phone...
View ArticleChicago Man Arrested In Fatal Mpls. Shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Chicago man has been charged in the Nov. 7 shooting death of a 29-year-old St. Paul man. Police responding to a shots fired call near the 2100 block of 10th Avenue South early...
View ArticleMan Shot By Off-Duty Officer In Carjacking Incident
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minneapolis Police say that a man was shot in a carjacking incident in New Hope early Friday morning. According to police, a man was arrested in a stolen vehicle along Humboldt...
View ArticlePolice: Wallet Stolen From Grandmother As She Shoveled Snow
Suspect No. 1. (credit: Minneapolis Police Department/Target) MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 70-year-old grandmother’s wallet was stolen while she was shoveling snow outside earlier this week, Minneapolis...
View ArticleMinnesota Reacts To Conn. School Shootings
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO/CBS News) – Gov. Mark Dayton issued a statement on Friday afternoon in response to news that a gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school, killing 26 people,...
View ArticleConn. Shootings Spark Minn Rally On Gun Violence
MINNEAPOLIS (AP/WCCO) — The Connecticut school shooting sparked a rally in Minneapolis Friday night centered around ending gun violence. The group Protect Minnesota held the rally around 6 p.m. at...
View Article150 Continue Search For Missing Chisago Co. Woman
CHISAGO LAKE TOWNSHIP, Minn. (WCCO) – More than 150 volunteers and law enforcement personnel resumed the search for a missing Oakdale, Minn. woman Friday. Danielle Jelinek, 27, was last seen at a...
View ArticleSchaffhausen Misses Deadline For Insanity Plea
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The deadline for Aaron Schaffhausen to enter a not guilty plea by reason of insanity has come and gone. The Dec. 14 deadline was set by St. Croix County circuit court Judge Howard...
View ArticleNo Call For Volunteers To Search For Missing Woman Saturday
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The search for Danielle Jelinek in Chisago County offered up no new clues Friday, authorities say, and because of incoming inclement weather, volunteers will not be asked to help...
View ArticleMinn. Teacher Union Head Condemns Conn. Shooting
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The head of Minnesota’s largest teachers union calls the shooting attack on a Connecticut elementary school “vicious and shocking.” Education Minnesota President Tom Dooher says...
View ArticleTroubling Details Emerge In Cold Spring Officer’s Killing
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – When 34-year-old Ryan Larson was released from custody, Stearns County officials said they lacked evidence of probable cause. At that moment, the Nov. 29 killing of Cold Spring...
View ArticleGood Question: Are Our Schools Any Safer?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Friday’s school shooting in Connecticut brought up, for many, memories of another mass school shooting – that of Columbine High School in Colorado. In the wake of the Columbine...
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