Apple Valley police say they have found a missing 87-year-old woman with dementia.

Late Friday night, police said Barbara Musil was located unharmed in Inver Grove Heights and reunited with her family.

Family members had said that Musil was last seen at her Apple Valley home Thursday.

Detectives believed she is driving, as she made several stops at gas stations in New Ulm and St. Paul, but may not have known where she was.

Police didn’t offer further details about how she was located.

A woman who had worked as a Hennepin County probation officer is accused of luring a Minneapolis real estate agent to a house before the agent was kidnapped and killed on New Year’s Eve, prosecutors alleged Friday.

Elsa Segura, 28, of Fridley, was charged Friday in Hennepin County District Court with one count of kidnapping. Segura is accused of luring 28-year-old Monique Baugh to a home that was for sale. Two men are accused of kidnapping Baugh in a rental truck.

Segura allegedly tried to lure Baugh to the Maple Grove home on Dec. 30, but Baugh was with another real estate agent.

Baugh was found fatally shot, her hands bound by tape, in a North Minneapolis alley on Dec. 31. Her boyfriend was shot in the couple’s North Minneapolis home with their two young daughters present, but he survived.

Two men are accused of kidnapping Baugh from Maple Grove in a rental truck.

Cedric Berry, 41, was charged earlier this month with second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and kidnapping. Another man, Berry Davis, 40, of Brooklyn Park, was charged late Thursday with one count each of second-degree murder and kidnapping for his alleged role in the case. Davis was charged by arrest warrant and is not in custody.

The charges did not specify a motive, but search warrant affidavits tied Baugh’s killing to a suspected drug rivalry between her boyfriend and Berry. Baugh’s boyfriend said in an interview that he did not know Berry.

Segura does not have an attorney listed for her case. A phone message left for Berry’s public defender for comment was not immediately returned Friday.

Hennepin County authorities confirmed to the Star Tribune that Segura had worked as a county probation officer. Court records also show that Segura was a child survivor of the Interstate 35W Mississippi River bridge collapse in Minneapolis in August 2007 that killed 13 people and injured 145 others.

According to the charges against Segura and Davis, Baugh received a voice mail from an unknown phone number on Dec. 29 from a woman named “Lisa” who requested a showing for a home. The caller said she wanted the showing “maybe tomorrow morning.”

Baugh later received several calls from the number and “found this very odd,” the charges said.

“She expressed to others that she did not know how this person obtained her personal phone number,” according to the complaint.

Police traced the phone number to Segura, whose voice was “verified by law enforcement personnel who were personally familiar with her.”

A search warrant executed on the phone found that it was purchased on Dec. 29. It was not used for any other calls between Dec. 29 and Jan. 3. Video showed that Berry purchased the phone, the charges said.

Jon Collins, a spokesman for the Hennepin County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Segura worked for the county from June 2014 to Dec. 18, 2019.

Two people in masks with guns entered a popular St. Paul restaurant Friday night and robbed staff and customers, according to the St. Paul Police Department.

About 8:42 p.m., police were called to El Burrito Mercado at 175 Cesar Chavez St., where witnesses told them the masked gunmen cleaned out the cash registers and took the wallets and cell phones of customers.

No one was injured, but the restaurant said those present were shaken.

In a Facebook post, the restaurant said the robbery traumatized staff and customers.

“We are heartbroken for our staff and customers that were victimized by these cowards,” the post said. “We hope justice is served.”

The restaurant delayed opening Saturday until noon to give police time to investigate and staff time to be with their families.

Police said they are tracking down leads, but had not made any arrests as of Saturday morning.

El Burrito Mercado opened in 1979 by Mexican immigrants and moved into its present St. Paul location in 1985.

A man who was found dead in the median of a Shakopee highway Thursday has been identified as a 22-year-old Ryan Wesley Hobot of Eagan, according to the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office.

Shakopee police were dispatched about 2:30 p.m. Thursday to the median of U.S. 169 near Canterbury Road, where a 911 caller had reported a man lying on the ground, according to a BCA news release.

The medical examiner’s office said he died of multiple blunt force injuries from a motor vehicle crash.

A three-car crash occurred Wednesday night about 10:40 p.m. near the location of the body, but authorities have not yet determined whether the two incidents are related, the BCA said.

A Minneapolis man is accused of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after a rollover crash in which four people were injured.

According to a prepared statement from the Wisconsin State Patrol Northwest region Eau Claire post:

At about 2:40 a.m. Saturday, troopers responded to a one-vehicle rollover crash on Interstate 94 near milepost 75. A strong odor of marijuana was noted when troopers approached the vehicle and the driver, Leonardo Gonzalez Gasper, 27, displayed clues of impairment.
Gonzalez Gasper and his three passengers, which included two children who were 5 and 8 years of age, were taken to Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire to be treated for injuries.

Standardized field sobriety tests were administered to Gonzalez Gasper, and he was placed under arrest for first-offense OWI with children present. A blood test was obtained at the hospital for chemical testing.

Gonzalez Gasper was taken to the Eau Claire County Jail. He was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, operating without a valid driver’s license, and operating without insurance.

Minneapolis police are asking for the public’s help as they investigate a suspicious death.

On Monday at 7:15 a.m., police responded to a 911 call of a body in the alley on the 3500 block of North Fourth Street.

Police said the body, a deceased man, showed signs of trauma.

A death investigation is underway. Officers cordoned off the area and coordinated with investigators from the department’s Violent Crime Investigative Division and crime lab.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).  Tips may also be provided electronically at www.CrimeStoppersMN.org.

All tips are anonymous and those providing information leading to an arrest may be eligible for a financial reward.

Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire has been charged with drunken driving after crashing into a snowbank with a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, according to a criminal complaint.

Maguire, the city’s mayor since 2007, was charged with two counts of gross misdemeanor third-degree driving while impaired this past week. The charges stem from a Jan. 11 arrest in a neighborhood located just over a half-mile from his home.

According to the Jan. 15 criminal complaint, Eagan police responded just after 8 p.m. to a report of a vehicle stuck in a snowbank at Dakota Path and Shadow Creek Curve — an area east of Pilot Knob Road and south of Cliff Road.

An officer saw a sport-utility vehicle with its engine running parked over the curb and in the snowbank.

The officer identified the driver behind the wheel as 52-year-old Maguire and smelled alcohol on him, the complaint alleges. He had slow and slurred speech, and bloodshot, watery and glassy eyes.

Maguire failed the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test — when an officer uses a penlight and asks someone to follow the light with his eyes, the complaint alleges. Maguire refused to do other field sobriety tests.

“(Maguire) was swaying and staggering and needed assistance walking and being seated in the squad car,” the complaint read.

After Maguire was placed under arrest and read his rights, he agreed to submit a breath test, which showed a blood-alcohol content of 0.19 percent, charges say. He was booked into Dakota County jail.

The case is being handled by the Hastings city attorney’s office to avoid a potential conflict of interest.

Maguire, who was charged by summons, is due to make a first appearance in Dakota County District Court in Hastings at 9 a.m. Feb. 12.

Maguire does not have a criminal record in Minnesota, other than a speeding ticket and parking violation.

Maguire has hired an attorney, James Blumberg, who when reached Monday said that neither he nor the mayor would comment on the charges.

Maguire served four years on the Eagan City Council before being elected mayor in 2006. He ran unopposed in 2014 and 2018; his current term ends in 2022.

An Eagan spokesman said Monday the city would not comment on the charges against the mayor.

A Forest Lake restaurant owner and a Forest Lake law firm say a competitor and former client posed as a customer and a contractor and wrote negative online reviews, likely scaring off potential business.

A posting on Google.com by “Johnny Devlin” said Eric Ernst, the owner of 3rd Gear Restaurant & Bar, failed to pay “Devlin,” who wrote he owned a painting company. “I did work for Eric and he still owes me $1,275 and he won’t pay me after I was done he kicked me out. He was drinking heavily and he was drunk.”

Another posting on Google.com from “Samantha Denver” said this of Ernst: “He owes my daughter money never paid her.”

Ernst says that “Johnny Devlin” and “Samantha Denver” are Ayman “Mike” Tel, the owner of Mr. Large Burrito in Forest Lake, and he has sued him for defamation.

Ernst is joined in the suit by the Miller & Stevens law firm in Forest Lake, which says Tel, a former client, left negative reviews for the firm and then tried to extort money to have the reviews removed.

Also named in the suit: Google LLC.

“For Google to continue to refuse to remove … these false and libelous reviews, even though they violate Google’s own publicly-stated policies is perpetuating the defamation and libel against the businesses,” the suit states.

Negative Google reviews are “essentially permanent scarlet letters online,” said Vince Stevens, president of the law firm. “This could theoretically be attached to my firm for the next 30, 40 years. Who knows how many cases I’m not getting? It’s not like we’re a restaurant where we lose one customer and lose a $20 tab. I could lose one personal-injury case — that could be worth $20,000 to $30,000. We don’t know who we are missing because of this damage.”

The lawsuit was served on Dec. 11.

TEL DENIES ALLEGATIONS

In an answer to the suit, filed on Dec. 30, Tel denies the allegations and filed a counterclaim against Ernst and Miller & Stevens. In the counterclaim, Tel says Miller & Stevens “personally engaged in an organized campaign against him, including posting negative reviews and sending emails and/or texts of a defamatory nature.”

Tel said Monday that Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies came to his business on Friday and took his computer and phone. “I’m not worried about that because there is nothing on there,” he said. “If I was hiding anything, I would be concerned, but they’re not going to find anything. I didn’t do anything.”

Attorney Mike Tomsche, who is representing Tel, said his client denies the allegations.

“Mr. Stevens is pursuing this case with such certainty, and there is no indication, other than his suspicions, that Mr. Tel provided those comments, and he didn’t,” Tomsche said. “We are baffled as to why he is being so assertive in this case when there is simply no evidence that Mr. Tel did those things.”

AN ALLEGED PATTERN

Miller & Stevens represented Tel in several legal matters from May 2018 through November 2019. A negative review appeared on Google.com after the firm “sent a letter asking him to come current on his legal bill,” Stevens said. “A second review months later followed our second letter about fees, and same with the one from August 2019.”

When Stevens stopped in at Mr. Large Burrito for lunch, Tel would tell him “that he noticed the negative review and (said) he could remove all of the reviews,” the complaint states. “It was an odd conversation to start while making a taco behind the glass.”

The lawsuit alleges that Tel also left reviews for Miller & Stevens and the Fridley restaurant using his own Google account.

“The odds are astronomical that someone other than (Tel) happened to create a fictitious account (Johnny Devlin) to review Forest Lake businesses Miller & Stevens and 3rd Gear Restaurant and also this Fridley … restaurant and say the exact same thing with the exact same words and lack of punctuation.”

‘WITHIN MINUTES OF EACH OTHER’

Stevens said that after he confronted Tel about the negative reviews on Nov. 25, Tel solicited negative reviews — 37 in all — against the law firm over a two-week period ending Dec. 19, 2019.

“The negative reviews were left within days, within minutes of each other, from fake people or people far away with no connection to our business,” Stevens said.

Among the reviews left for the law firm:

• “They stole my grandma’s money.” — Bhhh bbhh
• “They stole my grandma’s last 3000 dollars then cut her off leaving her with no help.” — Eric Zuniga

“The plaintiffs have suffered business loss as a result of (Tel’s) nefarious actions,” the suit states.

If the case goes to trial, Stevens said he plans to ask a jury for more than $1 million in damages “if the reviews are not removed.”

Google officials did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

“We’re negotiating Google’s cooperation to identify the poster and to remove the reviews, in exchange for its dismissal from the lawsuit,” Stevens said.

St. Paul police are investigating the death of a man who was found unconscious downtown Monday evening and later died.

Officers were dispatched about 7 p.m. to the 500 block of Wabasha Street, where they found a man unconscious and not breathing, according to a post on the department’s Twitter account.

We’re investigating a death after officers were called to the 500 block of Wabasha St. at about 7 p.m. tonight and found an adult male unconscious/not breathing.

Fire medics took him to Regions, where he later died.

No cause of death yet. No arrests. No more info available.

— Saint Paul Police Department (@sppdmn) January 21, 2020

Police received a third-hand report of someone being assaulted in a parking garage, according to emergency radio traffic.

St. Paul Fire Department paramedics, who were asked to respond to an elevator lobby, took the man to Regions Hospital, where he later died.

No information was immediately available about how the man died, according to police.

“Our investigators will continue to collect evidence tonight, interview witnesses and use that information, along with an autopsy conducted by the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office, to determine what caused the death and who, if anyone, is responsible,” said Steve Linders, a spokesman for the St. Paul Police Department.

There have been no arrests in the case.

SAN JOSE — First came the man to the rescue. And then came the dinosaur, the tiger and the cowboy.

It was just before midnight Friday in San Jose, and the downtown streets were thick with “furries” — anthropomorphism aficionados dressed in fur costumes — who had poured into the city for San Jose’s annual furry get-together known as FurCon.

Conversations were relaxed as people drank in the night air and cooled off from “suiting” inside fur costumes all day, said Steven Rodriguez, 26, who was taking a smoke break outside the San Jose Marriott hotel.

But suddenly a car screeched to a halt in the middle of South Market Street. And from inside came a woman’s horrified scream — “Get out, get out, get out, get out,” Rodriguez recalled.

“It was pretty intense,” said Rodriguez, a self-described “silent observer” of furry culture who traveled from Azusa in Southern California to attend the convention’s after-hours hotel parties. “We saw the passenger just whaling on her. Just a full-on punch.”

Rodriguez and his friend yanked open the unlocked passenger’s door and began dragging the man out, he said. The driver had been visibly beaten, and as they grabbed hold of her assaulter, he quickly tried to turn his ire onto Rodriguez.

At that moment, a group of about five people — still in their furry suits from the day’s festivities — sprinted over and restrained the man as he attempted to hit Rodriguez.

Among the first on scene was the pink dinosaur, who wrested the suspect by the head and shoulders while a massive tail bobbed in his wake, according to a brief video Rodriguez captured of the encounter. Then a tiger knelt to restrain the man from the torso as a platform-heeled cowboy watched on.

The video ends quickly — blocked by a man in a cat-emblazoned jacket — as the driver took off in another screech of metal, Rodriguez said.

Within a few minutes, San Jose police arrived and took over for the six people restraining the man, confirmed Sgt. Enrique Garcia, who added that the report did not detail the attire of the rescuers.

San Jose resident Demetri Hardnett, 22, was arrested and booked into Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of domestic violence; a preliminary investigation showed that the driver was his girlfriend, Garcia said.

The furries slowly dispersed after giving police statements, Rodriguez said, both disgusted by what they had seen but pleased with the way things played out.

“It happened very, very fast and it was just a horrible thing to see,” Rodriguez said. “But overall, everyone was very happy that we stepped in.”

Two more Hells Outcasts members have been implicated in what authorities say was a coordinated attack against a bouncer who told members of the biker gang they were not allowed to wear gang colors inside the St. Paul establishment.

Anthony Joseph Ledo, 38, of St. Paul, and Richard John Mader, 41, of Vadnais Heights, were charged Monday with committing crimes for the benefit of a gang, third-degree assault and riot, according to criminal complaints filed in Ramsey County District Court.

The charges come more than a year after authorities say members of the gang assaulted a bouncer at Saloon Bar in the 1000 block of Hudson Road Nov. 9, 2018. The assault was in retaliation for a new rule at the bar that prevented Hells Outcasts members from wearing their gang colors in the bar and getting served, though members of other gangs could, according to the charges.

Surveillance video shows Ledo arrive at the bar about 11:15 p.m. that night and push past the bouncer who tried to stop him because he was wearing his gang vest and yellow work gloves at the time, the criminal complaint said. Footage shows the bouncer follow Ledo inside, where he tries to get him to either leave or take off his vest.

Instead, Ledo pushed the bouncer and sat back down, charges say.

Several other Hells Outcast members, including Mader, arrived shortly thereafter.

Six gang members were surrounding the bouncer when Justin Raymon Wainner, another Hells Outcasts member, arrived. That’s when the six started assaulting the bouncer, the complaint said.

Meanwhile Wainner and Mader stood on the perimeter and appeared to block others in the bar from interfering, according to the charges.

At one point, Ledo was reportedly seen smiling before pushing the bouncer down, according to the charges.

Ledo and Mader are scheduled to make their first appearances on the charges Feb. 6. No attorney was listed for them in court records.

Wainner, 42, Patrick Thomas Maykoski, 50, Joseph Michael Prantner, 35, and John George Johnson, 57, were also charged in connection with the assault.

Maykoski pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting third-degree assault this past August and was sentenced in October to 30 days in jail and five years of probation.

Prantner entered an Alford plea to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm and is scheduled to be sentenced in March. He was accused of stealing the bouncer’s firearm during the altercation.

Wainner was acquitted this past December of one of the various charges filed against him but the jury failed to reach consensus on the other counts. Prosecutors are retrying those counts and a new jury is scheduled to hear the case in March.

Wainner is accused of threatening to “shoot up” the bar that night. 

A jury convicted Johnson of all the counts filed against him in the case. He is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 11.

The bouncer sustained injuries to his eyes, and knee and was subsequently diagnosed with vision problems, according to court documents.

Before a 52-year-old man died, he attempted to rob a Church of Scientology employee who fought back and was joined by other workers to hold him down in downtown St. Paul, police said Tuesday.

Police found the man unconscious and not breathing Monday night, and he was pronounced dead at Regions Hospital. The cause of his death remains under investigation.

Officers were called to the parking ramp by 505 Wabasha St., which is the Church of Scientology, about 7 p.m. Monday. Witnesses reported the man, whose name hasn’t been released, tried to rob a 49-year-old Church of Scientology worker just before officers were called.

The man intimated to the worker he had a gun and demanded his valuables, according to police. A fight began between the two, which drew the attention of several other employees of the Church of Scientology and they went to assist.

“At some point, the church employees were able to gain control” of the man, police said in a statement. “… They held him on the ground until the police arrived and found him unresponsive.”

Officers began chest compressions, and St. Paul fire paramedics were called and transported the man to Regions. A gun was not found, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul police spokesman.

Police brought everyone involved to headquarters, where they were interviewed and released. No one was arrested and the incident remains under investigation.

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will join the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office in hosting a conference Thursday aimed at highlighting the steps taken to protect children from clergy sexual abuse.

Survivors, as well as other members of the public impacted by clergy abuse, are invited to attend the daylong event.

It will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn and Suites in Lake Elmo located at 8511 Hudson Blvd.

Archbishop Bernard Hebda as well as Ramsey County Attorney John Choi will share the latest information on the settlement agreement reached between prosecutors and the archdiocese after Ramsey County filed several counts of child endangerment against the archdiocese back in 2015.

The charges accused the archdiocese of mishandling the allegations of repeated misconduct by former St. Paul priest, Curtis Wehmeyer. Wehmeyer was convicted of molesting two boys in Minnesota and one in Wisconsin.

The charges were dismissed after the two sides reached the settlement in 2016.

The agreement called for an acknowledgement of wrongdoing by the archdiocese as well as the implementation of a new child-protection plan aimed at preventing similar abuses.

The plan, subject to routine court oversight, included broader background checks for clergy and volunteers, child-protection training and mandatory reporting of abuse as well as other changes.

The three-year oversight period comes to an end next week.

Additionally, a retired judge will talk about restorative justice at Thursday’s event, and a panel of survivors will share some of their experiences.

A man is dead after a shooting in St. Paul’s Summit-University neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, police say.

Officers patrolling the area heard gunfire about 4 p.m. near the intersection of Arundel Street and University Avenue, according to Steve Linders, a St. Paul Police Department spokesman.

The officers found the wounded man lying in Arundel Street, just south of University, and provided first aid, Linders said.

St. Paul Fire Department paramedics arrived a short time later and took the man to Regions Hospital, where he later died.

The man was shot in the chest, according to an emergency radio transmission.

Officers had the area cordoned off Tuesday evening, and the eastbound lanes of University Avenue were closed while investigators collected evidence.

Several witnesses were brought to the department’s headquarters to provide statements, Linders said.

The nearby Rondo Complex, which includes the Capitol Hill and Benjamin E. Mays schools at Concordia Avenue and Mackubin Street, was locked down for nearly 30 minutes due to the police activity in the area, according to a St. Paul Public Schools spokesman.

No arrests have yet been made in the case, but investigators do not believe the shooting was random, Linders said.

The Ramsey County medical examiner will determine the man’s cause of death and identify him.

Tuesday’s homicide is the city’s third of 2020 and the second shooting death. A ruling has not been made on a man’s death during an attempted robbery on Monday night.

St. Paul police have responded to 64 reports of shots fired so far in 2020. By the end of January last year, the department had received just over 40 shots-fired reports.

A two-by-four was used by a Colfax man in the killing of his father, according to the Dunn County criminal complaint.

Gary E. Styer, 51, of rural Colfax told investigators he used a piece of lumber to strike his father in the head and torso while he slept in the early morning hours of Jan. 15, the complaint stated.

Dunn County deputies responded to a call for a welfare check of Edward Styer, 78, where he was found deceased. Deputies initially suspected his death to be from a gunshot wound. Authorities found a wooden board approximately four feet in length covered in blood in the room.

The autopsy report state there were deep lacerations to the head and face of the deceased. There were also bruising and lacerations to the hands, arms, torso and legs. The autopsy indicated multiple blunt force injuries including contusions, and lacerations to the skin and scalp and multiple facial bone and skull fractures and hemorrhages.

Styer has been charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide. He made an initial appearance in Dunn County Circuit Court by video conference call Tuesday afternoon.

Attorney Laurie Osberg, representing Styer through the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office, said they have yet to appoint counsel in Styer’s defense.

Osberg said they need more time to make a decision whether a second autopsy is needed and whether a second defense investigator is needed to study the scene. They just received the criminal complaint and counsel hasn’t been assigned, Osberg said, so they have yet to begin discovery.

Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire on Tuesday publicly acknowledged media reports of his Jan. 11 drunken driving arrest, but said now is not the time to comment.

Maguire took the city council comment period at the end of Tuesday’s meeting to address the criminal charges, which allege he was driving with a blood-alcohol more than twice the legal limit.

“I am on the advice of my attorney not commenting on those stories and want to make sure to allow the judicial process to move forward unencumbered by comment,” Maguire said. “So I will not be commenting further or publicly. Look forward when it’s more appropriate in terms of the judicial process, but want to acknowledge that story out in the community.”

Maguire, the city’s mayor since 2007, was charged with two counts of gross misdemeanor third-degree driving while impaired last week after he allegedly crashed his sport-utility vehicle into a snowbank in an Eagan neighborhood near his home. A preliminary breath test showed a blood-alcohol content of 0.19 percent, charges say.

Maguire, who was charged by summons, is due to make a first appearance in Dakota County District Court in Hastings at 9 a.m. Feb. 12.

Here’s some radio audio from Eagan mayor Mike Maguire’s DWI arrest. https://t.co/djHdGrYwtf

— Jeff Kolb (@jpkolb) January 21, 2020

A man who died after a struggle, as police say he was trying to rob a worker in downtown St. Paul, was identified as a 52-year-old, according to information released by police Wednesday.

The cause of death for Andre Lamont Peterson, of St. Paul, has not been determined by the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office, which is awaiting toxicology results, according to police.

Police said Peterson intimated he had a gun as he attempted to rob a Church of Scientology employee who was arriving for work on Monday night.

The 49-year-old worker fought back for about five minutes as he called out for help, before his co-workers heard and came to assist him. It happened in a parking garage on Exchange Street, near Wabasha Street and the church.

The workers held down Peterson and called police. Officers found him unconscious and not breathing, and began chest compressions, according to police.

Peterson was pronounced dead at Regions Hospital. No gun was found.

Police said they interviewed the people who were present and made no arrests. Their investigation is ongoing and police plan to present the case to the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office for charging consideration.

Minnesota court records show Peterson had a lengthy criminal history dating to 1987. He was charged with robbery or attempted robbery in 11 cases. He was convicted in nine of those cases.

Peterson’s most recent court case was from 2018, when he pleaded guilty to drug possession after he was seen holding a small bag of crack cocaine in Minneapolis. He was sentenced to more than a year in prison.

The last robbery he was convicted of occurred in 2016 in Minneapolis. Police responded to an assault and found Peterson standing over a man who was on the ground, according to a criminal complaint.

The man told police that Peterson said, “Give me your money or I’ll kill you,” according to the complaint. Peterson pushed him to the ground, and punched and kicked him numerous times in the head and body. Emergency medical personnel informed officers they believed the man’s back may have been fractured.

Peterson pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted aggravated robbery and was sentenced to about three years in prison.

In the case on Monday night, police said Peterson apparently pretended he had a gun by hiding his hand in his jacket. A court record from 2013 shows Peterson implied he had a gun under his shirt when he robbed a Walgreens drugstore in Minneapolis.

Police said Wednesday a man fatally shot the previous day in St. Paul was a 42-year-old.

Officers on patrol heard gunshots and found Larnell Brown, of St. Paul, wounded on Arundel Street, just south of University Avenue about 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Police have not made arrests in connection to Brown’s killing and are asking anyone with information to contact them at 651-266-5650.

“Investigators spent last night and all day following up on leads and working to identify suspects,” said Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman, on Wednesday.

Paramedics took Brown, who was shot in the chest, to Regions Hospital, where he died.

A St. Paul man with a history of sneaking into suburban homes to nab owners’ keys so he can steal their vehicles is accused of pulling the same scheme at a Falcon Heights house this past summer.

A couple who lived in the home woke up last Aug. 15 to discover their home was burglarized overnight, authorities say.

The burglar cut a hole in their screen to gain entry, and stole credit cards and the keys to the couple’s Toyoto Corolla. The vehicle also was missing.

Police spotted the stolen vehicle speeding down a St. Paul alley later that afternoon and pulled it over.

Ajoko Gaye, 21, was inside, with the couple’s stolen credit cards in his pocket, according to the criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court. Gaye is charged with first-degree burglary and vehicle theft.

The incident followed the same pattern Gaye deployed at homes he burglarized in 2014 and 2016, authorities say.

When Gaye was just 16, he broke into a home in Plymouth while a woman slept inside and tried to make on-line purchases on her computer with credit cards he found inside the house.

Then he pocketed the credit cards, cash and the keys to the woman’s Honda CRV before taking off in the vehicle.

Gaye confessed to the crime, court records say. He was later adjudicated delinquent of first-degree burglary.

Two years later, Gaye burglarized two more homes, one in Plymouth and another in Brooklyn Park, authorities say.

He stole credit cards, a flat screen television, a laptop and  watch from one of the residences, and vehicle keys and a Honda Civic from the other.

Gaye was convicted of theft of a motor vehicle in the latter incident in April of 2016.

He is expected to make his first court date in the latest case next month. No attorney was listed for him in court records.

Families of four Somali-American teenagers who said they feared for their lives when they were detained by Minneapolis Park Police officers in July 2018 have reached a $170,000 settlement with the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board, a civil rights group announced Wednesday.

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said each family will get $40,000 to settle the discrimination complaint filed with the state Department of Human Rights. The rest of the settlement funds will cover attorneys’ fees.

The July 10, 2018, incident at Minnehaha Park drew widespread attention after a bystander recorded part of it and posted the video online. The teens were handcuffed, and at one point an officer drew his gun and pointed it in the direction of the teens.

The teens have said they were just having fun with friends when they were detained.

The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board says the settlements state that the board is not admitting to any discrimination or use of excessive force, and that the board and the families agreed the settlements will avoid the costs and risks of litigation.

The officers were responding to a female 911 caller who falsely reported that four teens were following her boyfriend and wielding knives and sticks. Park police released the four teens after finding they were unarmed. Witness accounts also contradicted the 911 caller’s story.