Inver Grove Heights police said Monday that no arrests have been made in the shooting death of Billy Robles, a 19-year-old aspiring rapper from St. Paul killed early Saturday during a fight between two groups of party bus passengers.

Police Chief Paul Schnell said that although investigators have interviewed many of the 40 to 50 people who were at the “chaotic scene” in the parking lot of the AMC Showplace 16 on Bishop Avenue, “we believe there are still a lot of people with a lot of information that we don’t have.”

“We have a bunch of different names,” he said. “And now we’re just trying to sort through all of them.”

Evidence from the scene shows multiple guns were fired, but it’s unclear whether the shots came from one group of people or both, Schnell said.

Although a clear motive has not been established, witnesses told police that the two groups had exchanged “disparaging comments … that had gang-related overtures to them,” before the dispute turned violent, Schnell said.

“How much of that was legit kind of gang stuff, we don’t know,” he said. “But that was certainly brought up (by witnesses). We have to sort that out.”

Alcohol also played a part in the “mayhem,” Schnell said.

“There were a number of them who were intoxicated,” he said of the partygoers.

BUS REVELERS CELEBRATING TEEN’S BIRTHDAY

The pink-colored bus was being rented for a 16-year-old girl’s birthday party through Rent My Party Bus, which is out of Minneapolis, Schnell said. The driver has cooperated with investigators, Schnell said.

At some point during the night, the bus picked up several groups of people, Schnell said. Some of the partygoers, who ranged in age from 16 to mid-20s, had not known each other previously.

The fight and shooting occurred around 1:30 a.m. as the party bus was dropping off the revelers in the theater’s parking lot. Several of them had parked cars there earlier in the night.

After words were exchanged, a 16-year-old boy was punched in the face, which led to others jumping in and getting involved in the fight, Schnell said.

CHAOTIC SCENE DESCRIBED

As officers from nine law enforcement agencies worked to secure the scene and search for suspects, they found Robles unresponsive and the 16-year-old boy with facial injuries from being punched several times.

“Some people had left or were leaving as the squads pulled up, because it was mayhem,” Schnell said. “It was people running all over the place.”

A 16-year-old boy who was shot in his leg was rushed from the scene in a car that officers soon pulled over on U.S. 52, near Butler Avenue in West St. Paul. The teen was treated at Regions Hospital in St. Paul and released.

ROBLES PASSIONATE ABOUT HIS MUSIC

Darleen Tareeq, Robles’ cousin, told the Pioneer Press in an interview Saturday that Robles was shot while trying to break up the fight. She said she was not on the party bus, but had been told details from other family members.

Robles had attended Humboldt High School, where he played football and baseball, Tareeq said.Robles was passionate about rap, which he did under the moniker, BillyThaKidd, she said. In YouTube videos dating back to 2016, Robles can be seen surrounded by other young men, often rapping about growing up in poverty in St. Paul, marijuana and gun violence.

On Monday, a GoFundMe page started for the family to help with funeral expenses was over $2,400.

Staff reporter Deanna Weniger contributed to this report.

A Hastings man was sentenced Friday to 180 days in jail in the case of a 2016 hit-and- run that caused the death of a 10-year-old girl.

Steven Lee Meier, 45, earlier pleaded guilty in Aitkin County District Court to one count of criminal vehicular homicide for leaving the scene of an accident in the death of Caylin Donovan, a girl from Lake Park, Minn., who died after a vehicle struck her near Lake Mille Lacs.

Witnesses told authorities Donovan, who was staying with family at a home near the lake, may have been collecting rocks when she was struck and killed the evening of June 10, 2016, at the end of the home’s driveway along Minnesota 18, according to court documents.

DNA matching Donovan’s was later found on a boat trailer pulled by a vehicle driven by Meier, court documents stated. Meier was arrested June 20, 2016, in connection with the collision.

A woman, who was traveling with Meier but driving a separate vehicle, told investigators she knew there was a body on the road and she felt horrible for not stopping.

A witness told authorities the evening of June 10 that he was in his screened-in porch when he heard a loud bang and then heard a large truck accelerating away.

The witness said he saw a white pickup pulling a camper that was also driving away quickly and he surmised the two trucks had been traveling together. He said he walked down a driveway and found Donovan’s body on the highway, according to court documents.

A 16-year-old Hopkins boy has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree homicide in connection with the fatal shooting of Billy Ray Robles, a 19-year-old St. Paul man shot Saturday in Inver Grove Heights during a fight between two groups of party bus passengers.

The suspect was arrested Monday night after an interview with investigators, Inver Grove Heights Police Chief Paul Schnell said Tuesday. The teen, who has past connections to St. Paul, went to the Inver Grove Heights police station with his father, whom he was living with in Hopkins, Schnell said.

The suspect’s name was not released Tuesday because an investigation is continuing and the Dakota County attorney’s office is considering criminal charges, Schnell said. The teen remained at the Dakota County Juvenile Center on Tuesday.

Schnell would not say how the suspect was involved in the shooting. He said the investigation was in the “early stages” and includes forensic testing of evidence collected at the scene.

Evidence shows multiple guns were fired, but it’s unclear if the shots came from one group of people or both, Schnell said. A 16-year-old boy was shot in the foot and later released from Regions Hospital in St. Paul.

“We had probable cause to believe that he had involvement in this incident and we still have evidence to sort through,” Schnell said of the suspect in custody.

Investigators are looking for at least one other person of interest, Schnell said.

Investigators have determined that the fight and shooting followed a dispute between two groups of teens and young men on the party bus. Some witnesses have said rival gang affiliation was the motive, Schnell said.

Inver Grove Heights police were called to the parking lot of the AMC Showplace 16 on Bishop Avenue about 1:30 a.m. Saturday on a report of a fight and shots fired. When officers arrived, they encountered what they reported as a “chaotic scene” of 40 to 50 people where a party bus was dropping off passengers.

Officers found Robles unresponsive with a gunshot wound. A 16-year-old boy had facial injuries from a physical assault. Both were transported to Regions Hospital, where Robles was pronounced dead.

The 16-year-old gunshot victim was found in a vehicle stopped by police on U.S. 52, near Butler Avenue in West St. Paul, shortly after the shooting.

Robles was described by his cousin as an aspiring rapper who grew up on St. Paul’s West Side and had attended Humboldt High School.

The northbound lanes of U.S. 52 in West St. Paul were blocked for nearly a half-hour Monday night while police arrested at gunpoint five teenage boys who were suspected of using force to rob a Verizon Wireless store in Inver Grove Heights.

Police later learned the teens, ages 16 and 17, had allegedly grabbed an iPad and iPhone from the store and assaulted a customer who tried to stop one of them, Police Chief Paul Schnell said.

Police were called to the Cellular Connection, at the northeast corner of Concord Boulevard and Cahill Avenue, at 6:45 p.m. by a store clerk reporting a robbery in progress. The clerk feared it was a stickup because some of the teens had sweatshirt hoods pulled over their heads to hide their faces, Schnell said.

As the teens ran from the store, a 27-year-old Inver Grove Heights man grabbed one of them in an attempt to stop him from leaving, Schnell said. Another of the teens ran back into the store and hit the man, who let go of the teen he was holding.

Officers from Inver Grove Heights, West St. Paul and South St. Paul, as well as the Minnesota State Patrol, stopped the suspects’ car a short time later on northbound U.S. 52, near the Butler Avenue exit in West St. Paul, and arrested them without incident. Charges are pending, Schnell said.

In August, the store was the scene of a stickup in which a clerk shot and critically wounded a robbery suspect, 32-year-old Jamaal Marquie Mays. Mays and his alleged accomplice, Jaquon Keshawn Moman, 25, were charged with federal crimes.

His screen name was Libking Shooter Man and police say he offered to sell an iPhone on Facebook Marketplace.

But after meeting a 28-year-old in St. Paul, he told him, “This is a stickup,” robbing him at gunpoint Thursday.

Police investigation led police to determine “Libking Shooter Man” was Victor Issac Wion, 19, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.

Two days after officer Jon Sherwood responded to the robbery report, he was on patrol and looking for Wion. Sherwood, who has been patrolling in St. Paul for 32 years, saw a parked car with a passenger who looked like Wion on Saturday, the complaint said.

Sherwood talked to the driver, whose 2-year-old child was in the back seat. The driver, 27, explained “he was negotiating a cell phone trade” with Wion, whom he knew as “Libking Shooter Man” on Facebook Marketplace, the complaint said.

Police arrested Wion, who had a BB gun and a felony amount of marijuana, according to the complaint charging him with first-degree aggravated robbery in the case from Thursday on Magnolia Avenue, near Hazelwood Street.

“Investigators are almost positive that Officer Sherwood interrupted a robbery about to take place, based on the history of the suspect,” said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul police spokesman.

Wion, who was convicted of felony robbery and theft last year, faced years in prison, though judges sentenced him to months in the county workhouse instead. His attorney could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

St. Paul police have seen a spate of robberies occurring when people meet for purchases arranged online.

Last week, a permit-to-carry holder shot a man in the foot in the North End when he robbed him after they arranged via Facebook to meet for an iPhone purchase, according to a criminal complaint. The 18-year-old who was wounded was charged with robbery.

ROBBERY, THEFT, DRUG CASES FROM LAST YEAR

In January 2017, Wion pleaded guilty to robbing a taxi driver at gunpoint in St. Paul. In exchange, the Ramsey County attorney’s office dropped a separate robbery charge involving a carjacking in Maplewood.

Prosecutors agreed to the deal because Wion didn’t have a previous criminal history, he was pleading guilty to the more serious of the two charges and was ordered to pay restitution in both cases, said Dennis Gerhardstein, Ramsey County attorney’s office spokesman.

Wion told the court at that time “he needed to attend a meeting regarding his citizenship or he would miss the chance at becoming a United States citizen,” according to the complaint in the current case.

Wion was conditionally released from jail and sentencing was scheduling for two months away. But he was arrested again after a fight broke out at the Conway Recreation Center three days later.

Wion “used the confusion caused by the fight to steal (cell) phones” and was charged with felony theft, the complaint said.

Last April, a Ramsey County District Judge Richard Kyle Jr. sentenced Wion in the cabdriver robbery to nearly five years in prison, which he set aside for 15 years on conditions, including that Wion not get in trouble again.

Kyle ordered him to serve a year in the workhouse, with credit for 134 days served, and put him on supervised probation for 15 years.

The sentence was a downward departure from state sentencing guidelines. A typical sentence would have been four years in prison, Gerhardstein said.

Prosecutors agreed to a sentencing departure in January 2017, but later objected. Kyle’s sentence came “despite the fact that Wion had violated the plea agreement by failing to remain law-abiding, made misrepresentations about his citizenship meeting to the court,” according to the current criminal complaint by the county attorney’s office.

Kyle was out of the office Tuesday. Ramsey County Chief District Judge John Guthmann didn’t know particulars of the Wion case, though he said, “It’s a misnomer to say that a departure isn’t consistent with the (sentencing) guidelines because the guidelines tell judges how to do departures.”

Judges hear arguments from the prosecutor and defense attorney, and then consider factors including a defendant’s age, prior criminal record, whether they show remorse and whether they cooperated with authorities, Guthmann said.

It was unknown what type of citizenship meeting Wion was referring to last year. A U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services spokeswoman said she couldn’t discuss specific cases.

People found guilty of aggravated felonies are not eligible to become U.S. citizens.

About a week and a half after Wion initially was released from the workhouse last year, he was found with about 1 gram of cocaine in St. Paul, according to a criminal complaint. He pleaded guilty to felony drug possession and is awaiting sentencing.

Ben Oliver’s phone call to his wife Monday night was brief:

“Honey, there’s a fire at the range, I’ll be home late. I’ve got to go. The fire truck is here.”

Several hours and about 350,000 gallons of water later, the fire was out — but so was the building. Smoke and water damage caused a total loss to Lakes Trading Co., a gun shop and indoor range in Forest Lake.

Customers were inside the building at the time the fire erupted, but no one sustained injuries other than a Hugo firefighter who sprained his ankle.

The state fire marshal was investigating the fire Tuesday morning. Officials did not know what caused the fire but did not suspect foul play.

“Ben and his entire crew have worked tirelessly to make Lakes Trading the go-to business for firearms and training,” said Dustin Sanchez, a friend of the business. “I can recall on multiple occasions when I have reached out to Ben in need of parts or time on the range and he has always gone out of his way to accommodate me. I have no doubt that the firearms community will come together in the coming months to help Ben and his team rebuild, myself included.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the Olivers did not know whether they planned to rebuild. Oliver announced in a Facebook post Monday night that the range was closed until further notice.

75 FIREFIGHTERS WERE ON SCENE

Five different fire departments — Forest Lake, Wyoming, Hugo, White Bear Lake and Lino Lakes — sent a total of 75 firefighters to the scene to help combat the the flames, which were shooting several feet into the air.

Crews were called to the scene around 8:30 p.m. Monday and remained there for several hours.

The wall at the end of the gun range was made of pieces of rubber — essentially ground up tires — to stop the bullets from leaving the building.

“One of the issues was dealing with that. Once rubber starts to burn, it’s like a tire fire,” Forest Lake Fire Chief Alan Newman said. Authorities said gun ammunition did not pose any problems battling the blaze.

Music Connections, a neighboring business that shared a building with Lakes Trading Co., suffered minor smoke and water damage. Charlie Ollmann, who founded Music Connections in 1981 with his wife, said he was worried the damage would be much worse when he saw the fire.

“How are we going to take care of our customers and clients if our place burns down?” Ollmann wondered during the fire, he said Tuesday. “When we built the building, that fire wall was really expensive. Now, I’m really glad for it.”

FRIENDS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS PITCHED IN TO HELP

Ben Oliver had owned a portion of the building for several years. He originally bought it as an art gallery and frame shop, but later converted it into a gun shop, then added the range a few years later.

“This was his thing,” his wife Amy Oliver said. The couple has nine children, one of whom shoots competitively.

When Amy Oliver heard about the fire from her husband Monday night, she was hoping it was small and contained, as a different fire in the range had been years before.

But she drove to the range anyway, getting there just a few minutes after the fire had started. Already, flames had engulfed a portion of the building and were leaping several feet into the air, Oliver said.

They got home around 2 a.m. Tuesday with many of the firearms that had been inside the building. Friends and community members assisted them with cleaning the guns, working through the night and all day Tuesday.

“It’s just sad to see a family business, that he’s grown from nothing, by himself, to have a hit like this,” Knuth said.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Police say five people were stabbed and a sixth person was critically beaten after a knife fight erupted at a party in Rochester.

Officers were called to an apartment building about 12:20 a.m. Tuesday after four men showed up who weren’t wanted at the party. That’s when the fight broke out and someone was armed with a knife.

The Post-Bulletin reported that a 17-year-old from Rochester was stabbed three times in the chest and was in critical condition. Two others, a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old man, suffered single stab wounds to the chest and were in stable condition. Two other men suffered minor stab wounds.

Police said a 20-year-old who went into the apartment was beaten and suffered critical injuries. He and one of the men with multiple stab wounds were found at a local gas station.

Jacinda Dunlap recalled for a jury two women jumping out of their car to attack her after she parked outside her St. Paul home late last winter.

They started punching her and pulling her hair, said Dunlap, 25, during her testimony in Ramsey County District Court this week. One of them hit her head with a sledgehammer, she said.

According to Dunlap, the woman with the sledgehammer was Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of Philando Castile.

Reynolds, 28, came into the public eye in July of 2016 after Castile was fatally shot during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights by a St. Anthony police officer. Officer Jeronimo Yanez was subsequently charged with manslaughter but acquitted by a jury last summer.

Reynolds was charged with second and third-degree assault for allegedly attacking Dunlap along with two other women in an unrelated incident that broke out outside Dunlap’s townhome on Jessamine Avenue around 6 a.m. on Feb. 28 2017.

“How certain are you that Ms. Reynolds hit you with that hammer,” Washington County prosecutor Siv Yurichuk asked Dunlap on the opening day of Reynolds’ assault trial this week.

“Very certain,” Dunlap responded.

Reynolds’ attorney Michael Padden asserts that Dunlap is pointing the finger at the wrong person. While Padden told jurors during opening statements he didn’t dispute that the other two women charged in the altercation — Dyamond Richardson and Chnika Blair — were involved, he said his client was not the third attacker.

Not only does he intend to prove that Reynolds wasn’t there, Padden told jurors, but he said he plans to offer evidence indicating Dunlap was never actually attacked by a sledgehammer and that she exaggerated her injuries.

The head injury she was hospitalized for following the attack was nothing more than a one centimeter laceration, Padden said. He claimed that the cut was caused by Blair’s fingernail when the woman pulled out Dunlap’s weave during the fight.

Dunlap described the attack as much more traumatic when she took the stand Tuesday. She described being knocked to the ground by the force of the sledgehammer and blood running down her face as she waited for an ambulance to take her to the hospital.

The assault took place in retaliation for an incident earlier that month on Feb. 7 at a Family Dollar store in St. Paul, according to Dunlap. In that incident, Dunlap said she and another woman got into a physical altercation with Dyamond Richardson, a store employee.

Dunlap was subsequently charged with fifth-degree assault for the encounter but the charges were dismissed.

Richardson, according to Dunlap, is a good friend of Reynolds, which is what prompted Reynolds to attack a woman she didn’t know, Dunlap told the jury.

Dunlap said she knew it was Reynolds because she recognized her from media coverage surrounding the shooting of Castile.

It was Reynolds and Chnika that followed her home from her mother’s house early Feb. 28 and jumped out of their car to attack her when she parked at her home, Dunlap testified.

While it the assault was underway, she claims Richardson arrived in a different vehicle and got out and sprayed her with bear mace before all three attackers took off.

Dunlap also testified that Reynolds and Richardson showed up at her house to threaten her in the days following the Feb. 7 incident and said Reynolds also sent her what appeared to be a threatening message on Facebook.

Both Richardson and Blair pleaded guilty to third-degree assault for their actions in the case. They were given custody for the handful of days they served following their arrests and were placed on probation.

Padden spent much of his cross-examination of Dunlap attempting to point out inconsistencies between her testimony and what she told investigators.

Devontre Vann told a court Wednesday that every day he thinks about the pain he caused two young women when he and three acquaintances under the influence of tequila and Xanax took turns raping them on Harriet Island last summer.

“I want to apologize to the victims and their families,” Vann said to Ramsey County District Judge Mark Ireland when it was his turn to speak at his sentencing hearing. “I regret what happened. That’s something I think about every night.”

Vann, 20, was the second of the four defendants charged in the case to be sentenced.

He entered an Alford plea in late January, which his attorney, public defender Patricia Hughes, said was because Vann doesn’t remember his actions that evening because he was so high and drunk at the time.

He was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years in prison on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of aiding and abetting aggravated robbery.

He and the other defendants — Vershone Jaquay Hodges, 20, Deandray Artez Easley, 19, and Choncey Milan Stewart, 17 — are accused of holding up the 18-year-old girls and their two male friends around 11 p.m. last June 5, eventually forcing the two males to strip and lie face-down as three of the four took turns raping the young women.

When they were finished, the defendants took off with the victims’ cellphones and other belongings, according to court documents.

While the two women were present during Vann’s sentencing Wednesday, neither spoke.

When it was her turn to address the court, Ramsey County Assistant Attorney Kelly Olmstead said what they and their two male friends endured that night is “what nightmares are made of.”

“We need the defendant to understand how extraordinarily traumatic … this was,” Olmstead said. “It was horrific. It was life-shattering. I can’t put to words how horrible it was and continues to be … And that pain doesn’t go away with this sentencing.”

Still, she said the state appreciated the remorse Vann showed.

Hughes said the young man grew up in a good home with both his parents, his grandmother and siblings present in his life. Shortly before the sexual assault took place, he signed up to join the U.S. Navy.

Unlike the other three defendants charged alongside him, Hughes said Vann was not a gang member. He only really knew one of the other young men who went to Harriet Island that night to make a music video.

Deciding to go was his first mistake, Hughes said, adding that his second was to drinking tequila and popping two Xanax pills.

“But that is no excuse. He is not making excuses,” Hughes told the court. “I am just saying this is a good person who did a really bad thing and he’ll be spending many years in prison thinking about that.”

One of Vann’s family members left the courtroom shaking and crying when his sentence was handed down.

Hodges was sentenced in January to 25 years in prison. Easley is scheduled to be sentenced in May after a jury convicted him of the charges filed against him last year. Stewart’s case is pending.

As a party bus drove around for several hours late Friday, an argument between two groups of teens festered.

When the bus pulled over in Inver Grove Heights to drop off passengers early Saturday, a punch was thrown, according to criminal charges. Shots were fired, leaving 19-year-old Billy Ray Robles dead and wounding a 16-year-old boy.

On Wednesday, two teens were charged with first-degree riot and second-degree assault for firing shots outside the party bus. Maurice Martin, 16, of St. Paul, and Trashaun Morris, 17, address unknown, were charged as juveniles in Dakota County District Court. Motions have been filed to prosecute them as adults.

The investigation continues to determine who fired the fatal shot that killed Robles, an aspiring rapper from St. Paul.

Murder charges are possible, according to the Dakota County attorney’s office.

The bus was rented by a 21-year-old woman for her younger sister’s birthday party, Inver Grove Heights Police Chief Paul Schnell said. Many of the passengers had been drinking alcohol, which played a part in the “mayhem,” he said.

According to a criminal complaint, the bus  left the parking lot of AMC Showplace 16 on Bishop Avenue and drove around the metro area. Some of the passengers were members of what were described as “east side” and “west side” groups, which argued throughout the night.

When the bus returned to the parking lot around 1:30 a.m., the nearly 50 partygoers filed out of the bus. At some point, a fight broke out on the stairs of the bus. Someone was punched in the face.

One witness told investigators that he and Robles and other teens chased after members of the east side group.

Another witness said he saw a person from the east side group, known as “Tre Tre,” shoot toward the west side group, according to the charges.

Another member of the east side group stood off to the side of the parking lot and fired shots, a witness told police.

Officers found Robles unresponsive with two gunshot wounds. A 16-year-old boy had facial injuries from a physical assault. Both were transported to Regions Hospital, where Robles died of a gun shot wound to his chest.

The pink-colored bus was being rented through Rent My Party Bus, which is out of Minneapolis. The driver has cooperated with investigators.

Reached by telephone Wednesday, Aleksey Silenko, director of Rent My Party Bus, said he would not comment about the shooting. In an emailed statement, he said the company is cooperating with investigators.

“I want to express my deepest sympathy to the victims and their families,” he added.

A former Minneapolis FBI agent who allegedly shared secret documents with a national media organization has been charged months after Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to crack down on government leaks.

Terry J. Albury faces two counts of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information. He was charged Tuesday by felony information, which typically indicates a defendant will plead guilty.

The charges allege Albury shared two documents with a reporter, including one dated Aug. 17, 2011, that relates to how the FBI assesses confidential informants. The other document, which is undated, pertains to “threats posed by certain individuals from a particular Middle Eastern country,” according to the information.

The charges say Albury shared the documents sometime between February 2016 and Jan. 31, 2017.

Prosecutors don’t name a reporter or news organization, but on Jan. 31 of last year, the Intercept posted a story about how the FBI assesses and manages informants. The story references a secret document dated Aug. 17, 2011, that deals with assessing informants and recruiting them by identifying their “motivations and vulnerabilities.”

The Trump administration has made prosecuting government employees who leak sensitive information to the media a high priority. Last year, Sessions pledged to clamp down on leaks, noting that the Justice Department had more than tripled the number of active leak investigations since President Barack Obama left office and that the FBI had created a new counterintelligence unit to focus on such cases. He told members of Congress in November that the department was conducting 27 investigations into leaks of classified information.

Albury’s attorneys, JaneAnne Murray and Joshua Dratel, said in a statement that Albury served the U.S. with distinction domestically and in Iraq and “accepts full responsibility for the conduct set forth in the Information.”

They also said that as the only African-American FBI field agent in Minnesota, his actions were driven by a “conscientious commitment to long-term national security and addressing the well-documented systemic biases within the FBI.”

The Minneapolis FBI office referred questions to the Justice Department, which is handling the case. A spokesman with the Justice Department declined to comment beyond the charging documents.

According to search warrant applications obtained by the Star Tribune, Albury began working for the FBI in 2000 and most recently was assigned to work on counterterrorism and other matters at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

The search warrant applications say the FBI linked references to secret documents in data requests filed by the Intercept to Albury’s activity on the bureau’s information systems. The FBI also later identified 27 documents — 16 marked classified — that the Intercept published, and found that Albury had accessed more than two-thirds of them.

The charges filed Tuesday also allege that from April 7, 2017, to Aug. 28, 2017, Albury willfully kept a document about an online platform used by a specific terrorist group for recruitment, and failed to give it to an officer and federal employee who was entitled to it.

Prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old man with murder in a fatal shooting near the Little Earth public housing complex in South Minneapolis.

Juan Antonio Vasquez Jr. of Minneapolis is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Alexander LaGarde of Chanhassen early Sunday.

Vasquez is also charged with second-degree assault because a younger teen near LaGarde was hit by shrapnel.

According to the complaint, the two victims were among a group of young people standing on the sidewalk when Vasquez and another man approached. LaGarde was unable to get into a nearby home. The complaint says Vasquez pulled out a gun and fired multiple shots, killing LaGarde and wounding the other teen.

Vasquez and the other man fled. An arrest warrant is out for Vasquez, and police are searching for him.

A 95-year-old was grocery shopping at a Cub Foods in White Bear Township last June when a woman she didn’t know walked up to her cart and struck up a conversation.

Soon after, the elderly woman realized her wallet, which moments before was inside her shopping cart, was gone.

Authorities say Zetta Listice Mallett stole it as part of a months-long theft spree across the metro area last summer, according to charges filed against her via warrant in Ramsey County District Court.

Mallett, 54, of St. Paul, faces 10 felony counts of credit card theft.

Her scheme involved targeting elderly women as they shopped at Cub and Walmart locations, according to the charges.

Mallett or her accomplice — another woman who has not been charged — approached shoppers and made small talk, the complaint said.

Once distracted, they stole their wallets and subsequently used their credit cards to make more than $12,000 in fraudulent purchases, authorities say.

Mallett, who often donned a wig during the thefts, was arrested last July after investigators used surveillance video from several of the stores to identify her, the complaint said.

She declined to speak to investigators about the allegations.

Mallett’s criminal history includes several convictions for credit card theft, as well as identity fraud and assault.

She could not be reached for comment and no attorney was listed for her in court records.

A former teacher at St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights has pleaded guilty to buying alcohol for students.

Kristin Marie Vanyo, 45, entered the plea Wednesday in Dakota County District Court.

In exchange, it is expected that three other criminal charges will be dropped at the May 30 sentencing hearing, according to prosecuting attorney Jeremy Knutson. Those charges are a second count of furnishing alcohol to a minor and two misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct for smoking pot with students.

Vanyo, who was fired by the all-male Catholic prep school in May, could not be reached for comment Thursday.

According to court documents, Vanyo told police investigators in May she bought $120 worth of alcohol for students before the school’s military ball and prom; wrote a paper for a student in exchange for marijuana; and bought marijuana from a student.

In a followup interview with police, Vanyo said she picked up two students and smoked marijuana with them in her car at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Inver Grove Heights.

A gross misdemeanor carries a maximum sentence of a year in jail and a $3,000 fine.

A Lakeville woman is accused of leaving her two young children home alone for four hours while she ate chicken wings and got black-out drunk at a Green Mill Restaurant and Bar.

Christine Teresa Jewle Smith, 26, was charged last week in Dakota County District Court in Hastings with gross misdemeanor child neglect. She was charged by summons and has an April 16 court date.

According to the criminal complaint:

Lakeville police responding to a welfare call near Kenwood Trail around 12:30 a.m. Feb. 12 found Smith in the snow, drunk and unable to understand basic questions. A preliminary breath test showed she had a blood-alcohol content of 0.29 percent, more than three times the legal limit to drive.

At a hospital where she was being checked out for possible injuries, she told staff that her children, ages 4 and 7, were home alone. Officers went there, found them sleeping and contacted a relative to take care of them.

A man shot in the stomach on the Greater East Side was transported to Regions Hospital in critical condition Wednesday.

He has since stabilized.

No arrests have been made, and the victim’s name has not been released.

Police responded to a call in an apartment building in the 1200 block of Herbert Street around 7:45 a.m. Wednesday.

The victim was found in the hallway of the building. He had gotten into an altercation with another male, who reportedly shot him in the abdomen and ran off.

The suspect has not been located. Police are still investigating the case.

Delaquay Levius Williams led officers on an 80 mph chase last month, according to authorities, evading arrest.

Days later, a SWAT team waited outside a Dayton Bluff residence, calling for Williams to surrender. After several hours, they discovered he wasn’t there.

But Wednesday evening the 23-year-old was jailed on suspicion of firearm possession, aggravated robbery, second-degree assault, and fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle.

He was found in an apartment complex in North St. Paul.

The St. Paul man has been accused of shooting and wounding a man on Feb. 18 last month.

Williams has twice been convicted of fleeing a peace officer and aiding and abetting aggravated robbery since 2012. He also has been convicted of domestic assault.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A judge has ordered Stearns County to return thousands of pages of FBI documents in the Jacob Wetterling investigation to the federal agency.

County officials had planned to release the case file after Danny Heinrich confessed to the 1989 abduction and killing of 11-year-old Jacob. But Patty and Jerry Wetterling sued to keep 168 pages containing personal information sealed.

News organizations sought to review the documents under state open records laws. The U.S. attorney’s office argued the federal investigative records belong to the FBI and must be returned.

More than half of the documents could have originated with the FBI.

Thursday’s ruling by Douglas County District Judge Ann Carrott means the FBI documents must go through a more complicated and lengthy review under the federal Freedom of Information Act before they are released.

MENOMONIE, Wis. — Dunn County’s district attorney says a woman accused of killing a man stabbed him 16 times and then carved the word “boy” on her arm.

Twenty-year-old Ezra McCandless, of Stanley, is being held on $250,000 bond in the death of 24-year-old Alexander Woodworth. McCandless has not been formally charged with his death, but made an appearance via video in Dunn County Circuit Court Wednesday.

DA Andrea Nodolf said in court that McCandless had admitted to the stabbing, but claims Woodworth attacked her.

The victim’s body was found in a car in a driveway in rural Springbrook March 23.

Defense attorney Aaron Nelson told the judge there is no factual basis provided to the court that McCandless has committed any crime.

Prosecutors have charged a Minneapolis man with murder in the overdose death of a 19-year-old woman in Carver County.

Twenty-nine-year-old Deon Lee Hillard is charged with third-degree murder in the death of Olivia Rose Zorbas of Watertown.

According to the criminal complaint, Zorbas’ family found her dead in her bedroom of an apparent overdose last Friday. Deputies obtained a search warrant and found an uncapped syringe, a makeshift tourniquet and a white powder which tested positive for fentanyl, a powerful painkiller.

Investigators searched Zorbas’ phone and Facebook accounts and learned she had arranged to buy drugs from Hillard the day before. Hillard told deputies he sold what he believed to be heroin to Zorbas.

Hillard remains jailed with unconditional bail set at $500,000. He’s due back in court April 11.