BISMARCK, N.D. — A flight attendant accused of making bogus bomb threats on two Skywest flights in 2015 has signed a plea deal to avoid trial, but he could still end up spending decades in prison.

Justin Cox-Sever, 23, of Tempe, Arizona, is accused of making threats on a July 2015 flight from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Chicago, and on a September 2015 flight from Minneapolis to Dickinson, North Dakota. In the first incident, the plane had to turn around mid-flight. The second incident resulted in the temporary shutdown of the Dickinson airport.

Under the plea agreement filed Saturday, Cox-Sever will plead guilty to four of five charges accusing him of interfering with an aircraft. Prosecutors will drop a fifth count, reducing the potential maximum sentence from 70 to 50 years in prison. A judge must still approve the deal and an appropriate sentence. Cox-Sever also could face up to $1 million in fines and restitution, according to court documents.

The Associated Press on Monday requested comment from defense attorney Michelle Monteiro and Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme, who is prosecuting the case.

FBI Special Agent Daniel Genck wrote in an affidavit filed last year that Cox-Sever admitted planting a bag with towels on the North Dakota flight and reporting it as a suspicious package making beeping noises. Genck said Cox-Sever also admitted writing a threat on a wall of the plane’s bathroom in the Virginia case. Attorneys haven’t publicly discussed a motive.

Emergencies were declared on both flights. No injuries were reported.

Cox-Sever was charged in U.S. District Courts in North Dakota and Virginia, complicating the matter and resulting in his trial being delayed eight times. The cases were consolidated in federal court in North Dakota earlier this month.

Cox-Sever is no longer employed by SkyWest. The airline won’t say whether he quit or was fired.

LITCHFIELD, Minn. — A Minnesota dad allegedly removed 8 pounds of marijuana and marijuana plants from his home before calling 911 to report the murder-suicide deaths of his children a year ago.

Thomas Jon Cunningham, 52, of Grove City is charged with child neglect and obstruction for behavior before and after of his son and daughter’s deaths nearly a year ago.

Meeker County authorities discovered the drugs and paraphernalia the next day, dumped behind the property.

According to charges filed Friday, responding officers discovered 20 guns and multiple boxes of ammunition in the home, a pickup truck and a pole shed on the property.

They say 17 of those guns were discovered in the bedroom of 17-year-old David Cunningham, who shot his sister, Jessica, 15, and the family dog before shooting himself the afternoon of Feb. 29, 2016.

Grove City is about 50 miles southwest of St. Cloud.

Originally, Cunningham told police he arrived home from a quick trip to McDonald’s for lunch around 2:30 p.m. to find his two children and the family dog dead. He had said that he called 911 after another person arrived at the home.

But the McDonald’s receipt had a time stamp of 1:07 p.m., which surveillance footage reportedly confirmed, according to a criminal complaint.

Law enforcement said they believe Cunningham arrived home to find his son and dog dead outdoors, then entered the home, took off his shoes and found his daughter dead upstairs.

They allege he then removed all of the marijuana and paraphernalia from the home. While doing so, they believe, he stepped on a mason jar in the basement, cutting his foot. He allegedly loaded the drugs in his pickup truck, and dumped it behind his property.

Law enforcement discovered bloody circle tracks throughout the home during the investigation, which they believe were from Cunningham’s cut foot.

Another person arrived at the home, and Cunningham called police around 2:30 p.m., according to the criminal complaint.

In a news release issued several days after the Feb. 29, 2016, shooting, Meeker County Sheriff Brian Cruze had said there was no known motive for the shooting.

David Cunningham had been a student at Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City high school. He was home Feb. 29 because ACGC has no school on Mondays. His sister, Jessica, was a former ACGC student, but the sheriff’s office said she had been schooling online at home.

The allegations in the criminal complaint against Thomas Cunningham say he took his daughter to one mental health-related counseling session. But he allegedly told her not to talk about her suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and allegedly gave both children marijuana.

They also allege Cunningham’s son had previously killed a different family dog, had shot the ceiling of the home and pointed a firearm at another person but still was allowed access to all of the firearms on the property.

Other charges filed Friday against Cunningham include removal of a firearm serial number, fifth-degree drug possession and negligent storage of firearms.

He is not in custody. He is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges March 14.

Just over a year ago, D’Onjay Jackson was shot in the head in a St. Paul alley after a dispute over counterfeit money. On Monday, the teenager who pulled the trigger admitted what he did.

Tristian Lavonn Ballard, 18, pleaded guilty in Ramsey County District Court to one count of first-degree assault causing great bodily harm.

The shooting left Jackson, 21, so far unable to walk or talk, his mother, Darnella Wade, said Monday afternoon. He has had seven surgeries and is still under medical care.

“He is handicapped for life. … He is still on a breathing tube,” Wade said. “It is really hard. … But I would rather go through all this than be burying him.”

The second-degree attempted murder charge previously facing Ballard will be dismissed as part of the plea deal reached with the prosecuting attorney, according to Ballard’s attorney, Marcus Almon.

“He’s young, and sometimes young people make mistakes … and do really unfortunate things,” Almon said of Ballard.

The shooting took place about 6:15 p.m. Feb. 6, 2016, after Jackson, of St. Paul, drove to an alley near East Seventh Street and Minnehaha Avenue to sell marijuana, according to the petition filed against Ballard, who was a juvenile at the time.

Ballard and Daiezon Ravelle Broadbent, 25, reportedly met him there.

Broadbent later told police that “the dealer was trying to overcharge them for marijuana,” so he decided to buy elsewhere and went back to his car, court documents said.

That’s when Jackson “began spinning (his) car’s wheels” and “(Ballard) pulled out a gun,” the petition said.

He then reportedly grabbed onto (Jackson’s) car and starting firing shots into the driver’s window.

Ballard then got back in Broadbent’s car and the two drove off.

Sometime later, police got information that Ballard was at a Minneapolis home and obtained a search warrant. During the search, Ballard was reportedly seen trying to flee our a bedroom window, and a Minneapolis SWAT team detained him.

Police found counterfeit $100 bills and a shot glass in the home holding a .45-caliber bullet, the petition said.

Broadbent was charged with two counts of aiding an offender for his role in the case.

He is the brother of Lavauntai Broadbent, 16, who was fatally shot by a man he was trying to rob at gunpoint in St. Paul in July 2015. The would-be robbery victim had a handgun permit.

The next hearing in Broadbent’s case is scheduled for late March.

Ballard is scheduled to be sentenced April 11.

Wade said she is glad not to have a trial lingering in the case.

“We want closure,” she said.

The mother, who has four children, including Jackson, started the community group Black Truce last year in hopes of ending gun violence. She said she is still hopeful her son might regain some of his faculties.

Jackson is the father of a toddler and graduated from River’s Edge Academy in 2014.

A Chisago County man is facing murder charges after he allegedly shot his neighbor in a dispute over lake access. However, the suspect told authorities he acted in self-defense.

The two Lindstrom men clashed shortly after 12:30 p.m.

According to the charges, Anderson told police that he had given several people permission to fish at his mother’s property on Sunrise Lake. While stopping at an area bait shop, an employee told Anderson that Johnson had called, complaining about anglers’ vehicles being parked on his property.

Anderson drove to the lake and, on Lindo Trail, encountered Johnson, who was driving a four-wheel ATV. Anderson told police that Johnson was agitated and approached him as he was seated in his pickup truck. Anderson said Johnson then accused him of stealing a ladder and made a threatening statement, leading him to shoot Johnson once in the chest.

Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police found a handgun in Anderson’s truck and a spent shell casing near it on the ground. No weapon was found on or near Johnson’s body.

Anderson was charged Friday with one count of second-degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison.

First he created a fake Facebook page under his ex’s new boyfriend’s name. Next he started “friending” people, including the woman’s family and friends. Then came the pictures.

Authorities say Michael Roderick Weigel posted about 20 photos of his ex in “semi-nude and nude sexual poses” on the wall of the social networking site.

The 38-year-old Anoka man was charged via warrant Monday in Ramsey County District Court with three felony-counts of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, which took place last December, the complaint said.

The charge is a new tool for prosecutors seeking to hold people accountable for so called “revenge porn.”

It’s the first time the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office has filed charges under the statute, which became law in August. Hennepin County has charged at least two cases since its adoption, and Dakota County one. Washington County has yet to use it.

In this case, the woman learned about the Facebook page after friends and family started contacting her about it. Her face is “clearly identifiable” in the photos, the complaint said.

Speaking to investigators from the Ramsey County sheriff’s office, she said the photos were taken while she and Weigel were in a relationship together.

Weigel also posted inflammatory statements about the woman and her boyfriend on the page, according to the complaint. In one, he allegedly named her place of employment and said she was unfit to work there.

After serving multiple subpoenas and searching various computers, deputies contacted Weigel in mid-January.

In an interview with authorities, he acknowledged creating the Facebook page and said he did it to “expose” his ex and her boyfriend, the complaint said. Weigel added that his actions were not intended to “hurt anyone” and were not for “monetary gain.”

He also said his ex was aware of the photos he had of her and that she never asked him not to post them, according to the complaint.

Weigel’s criminal record includes four convictions for offenses related to driving while intoxicated.

He could not be reached for comment Tuesday and does not have an attorney listed for him under court records. A relative who answered the phone at a number listed for him said she did not want to comment on the charges.

A request for information from Facebook about their rules for safeguarding against violations of people’s privacy on the site was not immediately returned Tuesday.

NEW STATE ‘REVENGE PORN’ LAW

Laws against revenge porn have been passed in at least 17 other states, and Google announced plans in 2015 to censor unauthorized nude photos from its search engine.

The new statute in Minnesota makes it a felony for people to disseminate private sexual images of another person without their consent. For the photo’s dissemination to be illegal, the person depicted in the photo must be identifiable and the image must have been created or taken under circumstances by which the person “had a reasonable expectation of privacy,” according to the law.

Also, it’s not a criminal defense if the person in the photo knew it was being taken and consented to have it shared privately, the statute says.

The most likely legal recourse for such behavior in the past was under the state’s criminal defamation law, but there were problems with that avenue, according to Rep. John Lesch, DFL-St. Paul, a chief author of the new law. Convictions under the previous statute also are only gross misdemeanors.

Lesch was inspired to find a more fool-proof way to hold perpetrators of “revenge porn” accountable after reading a story in 2013 about a Canadian teen whose parents said she’d been raped by members of her school’s football team.

A photo taken of the incident was posted to social media by one of the alleged perpetrators. Rehtaeh Parsons later died after a suicide attempt left her on life support. She was 17.

A 2015 incident in Isanti County in which authorities say a man posted an ad to Craigslist offering sexual services under his ex-wife’s name further fueled his efforts to pass tougher penalties, he said.

“The internet is a new way for individuals to try to control and dominate ex-partners,” said Lesch, a former prosecutor. “Many of these victims can experience longer-lasting and sometimes greater impacts than domestic assault, because this stuff is on the internet and they have to deal with it forever.”

The effort faced some opposition from American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota. The organization’s legal director told the Associated Press at the time that the bill was too broad and thus potentially vulnerable to constitutional challenges.

PROSECUTOR ‘GRATEFUL’ FOR NEW WAY TO HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE

Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said he’s grateful to have a statute that makes it easier to hold people accountable for behavior he says social media has made increasingly problematic.

“Before we were always nibbling around the edges on how to go after cases like these and now we have a statute right on point,” Orput said. “That makes our lives a lot easier.”

He recalled a case in the past where a man “tricked his way” into a number of women’s Facebook accounts and then posted sexually explicit photos on the pages.

“We ended up having to approach that as identity theft at the time, and that can be difficult,” he said.

Regardless of criminal accountability for the conduct, people should be aware that photos have a long life online, Orput added.

A Kanabec County sheriff’s deputy was out looking for a cow reportedly in the roadway outside Mora, Minn., late Monday when he hit the cow with his squad car.

Deputy Daniel Steven, 30, was searching on Minnesota 23 around 10 p.m. after dispatchers received a report of a cow in the road, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. He unexpectedly encountered the cow about 10:13 p.m.

“As the deputy was making a second pass through the area, the cow ran out of the ditch and the vehicle struck it,” the state patrol stated in an incident report.

Airbags deployed in the squad car. Steven was taken to First Light Hospital in Mora, but was released Monday night. The squad car likely is totaled, according to Kanabec County Sheriff Brian Smith.  

The cow, which belonged to a nearby farm, was killed.

It’s not uncommon for deputies in the rural county, about 70 miles north of St. Paul, to respond to reports of livestock and other animals in the roadway, Smith said.

“I’d have to say this is the first time I’ve ever had them hit the animal they’re looking for,” Smith said. “But then again, that’s exactly why we go look for them. I’ve been to too many serious accidents and even fatalities caused by livestock on the road.”

A 28-year-old Minneapolis man is facing charges after he allegedly drove his speeding car into another vehicle last week on a residential street, fatally injuring the driver, a 55-year-old Minneapolis woman. Authorities believe he was intoxicated.

Regis Latodd Welsh was charged Tuesday with one count of criminal vehicular homicide. The charge alleges that Welsh was driving negligently while under the influence at the time of the Friday evening collision in North Minneapolis.

At about 6:30 p.m., Lisa Esping was in the intersection of 29th and Newton Avenues North when Welsh crashed into her vehicle. A witness said Welsh was speeding.

Esping’s vehicle was hit so hard it went airborne and crashed into a tree, according to the office of Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman.

Welsh fled the scene on foot but later returned and was arrested by police. He smelled of alcohol and his speech was slurred, authorities said.

On Tuesday, he was still being treated at Hennepin County Medical Center. Results of a blood-alcohol test were pending.

The owner of a Maplewood nightclub that was forced to close last week by the city council has given up his liquor license, officials said Tuesday.

Paul Xiong submitted a letter to city officials Monday afternoon surrendering his liquor license for the Stargate nightclub at Rice Street and Larpenteur Avenue, where five people were wounded after gunfire erupted Feb. 18, according to Maplewood Police Chief Paul Schnell. 

The Maplewood city council voted last Wednesday to close the club, and an administrative hearing was scheduled for Monday evening to determine whether the council would revoke Xiong’s liquor license.

If the council had voted to revoke the license, Xiong would have been prohibited from applying for another liquor license in Maplewood for five years, Schnell said. Xiong has indicated that he hopes to open another business in the space, such as a restaurant, Schnell added.

The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating Rufus Meyers Jr., who has been missing since January.

Family and associates last saw Meyers on Jan. 14.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call (651) 266-7320. 

The Minnesota State Patrol is asking for help locating the driver of a semitrailer that might have struck a man who jumped onto Interstate 94 Wednesday morning in Avon.  

The man, Lloyd Stuart Parker, 53, of Avon, reportedly left a parked car on Stearns County Road 9 and jumped from the overpass onto eastbound 94 just before 8 a.m., according to the State Patrol. Witnesses said a white semi in the right lane might have struck him and not realized it. Parker died at the scene.

“Troopers would like to locate the semi and the driver to find out what the driver may have seen,” the state patrol said in a news release.

The semi might have damage to its front bumper area. Anyone with information about the truck or its driver is asked to call the state patrol at 651-582-1292.

A record number of Minnesotans were issued permits to carry handguns in 2016, a 59 percent increase over the year before.

The 71,156 permits issued this past year were the most issued in a year since the state’s firearms permit laws were implemented in 2003, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. There were 44,696 issued in 2015.

The figures are from the latest annual report released by the BCA on Wednesday. Other key 2016 findings:

• Hennepin County had the most permits issued: 8,729. Ramsey County was fifth with 4,181.
• As of Wednesday, the total number of valid permits in Minnesota is 265,728.
• Permit holders committed 1,495 crimes. More than 80 percent were DWI’s or other traffic offenses.
• The most recent record for permits issued in a year: 60,471 in 2013.
• Sheriff offices reported there were 122 permits suspended, 56 revoked and 658 denied in 2016.

Figures for permits issued in other east metro counties include: Anoka County, 4,869; Dakota County, 4,705; and Washington County, 4,355.

Minnesotans seeking a permit apply at their sheriff’s office and provide proof of firearms training. Officials check criminal records for any disqualifying information.

A teacher is on leave from Henry Sibley High School in Mendota Heights after being arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography.

Kristine Lee Funk, a vocal music teacher at the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan district school, was arrested Monday evening and booked into the Dakota County Jail Tuesday morning, records from the sheriff’s office show. Mendota Heights police confirmed they were investigating Funk for possibly possessing child pornography.

Funk was released Tuesday evening without posting bond and the investigation is continuing. No formal charges had been filed against her Wednesday, but an official from the Dakota County Attorney’s Office said charges were possible in the future.

In a letter to the parents of Henry Sibley students, Principal Ron Monson said Funk was placed on leave immediately after the school received a complaint about her. Monson’s letter did not disclose the nature of the complaint, citing data privacy laws — which allow complaints against teachers to remain secret unless disciplinary action is taken.

“The intent of this message is to inform you of a developing situation — one that we take seriously,” Monson’s letter said. “However, we want you to know that we do not have any reason to believe that the situation presents an ongoing risk to any student or employee. The safety and security of our students and employees remains our highest priority.”

West St. Paul police will hold a public notification meeting Thursday about a Level 3 sex offender who plans to live in the city.

William Kibble Jr., 51, plans to move into a residence in the 1000 block of Livingston Avenue on or shortly after March 20, which is when he will be released from prison, said West St. Paul Police Chief Bud Shaver.

Most recently, Kibble has been incarcerated since early October 2016, and is currently at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater.

Kibble has a history of sexual contact and domestic assault with women. In one case, Kibble assaulted the victim by holding her against her will. She and Kibble knew each other before the offense. In another incident, which involved sexual touching, Kibble used force to accost the victim in a public place. She and Kibble did not know each other. 

In Minnesota, sex offenders are issued a number when they leave prison, and Level 3 is considered the highest risk to reoffend.

The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at Salem Lutheran Church, 11 Bernard St. W.

Police in St. Croix Falls, Wis., are asking for the public’s help in finding two missing teenage girls.

Makayla (Kayla) Hanson-Wall, 13, and Candus (Candy) Flodin, 14, left their foster-care residence to go to school Tuesday and never arrived. It’s believed they may be in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and could be traveling with a man, police said.

Hanson-Wall is described as 5 foot 4 and 100 pounds, with brown eyes and brown, shoulder-length straight hair. Flodin is 5 foot 5 and 130 pounds, with brown eyes and brown, shoulder-length wavy hair.

Anyone with any information is asked to call the St. Croix Falls Police Department at 715-485-8300 or dial 911.

A man suspected in a series of robberies in St. Paul and Roseville has been identified as a 46-year-old from St. Paul, Roseville police announced Thursday. They are asking for the public’s help to apprehend him.

The two police departments released surveillance photos last Friday, looking for tips to identify the suspect. St. Paul police said he has been involved in 13 cases in three weeks in which he stole cartons of cigarettes and assaulted workers.

The Roseville robbery occurred at 6:50 p.m. on Feb. 5 at the SuperAmerica at 2295 Rice St. A man asked the cashier for three cartons of Newport 100’s, valued at $260. When the cashier put the cartons on the counter, the man grabbed them, punched the cashier in the face and ran out.

Roseville police said they received an anonymous tip on Saturday from someone who identified the suspect as Kendall Bernard Russell.

St. Paul police said they also received tips that played a key role in identifying the suspect.

“Even some people who might not have ordinarily given information told the investigator that when they saw the suspect’s face and found out what he had been doing, they felt the need to step up,” said Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman.

Nine people called the St. Paul police investigator with tips and at least two people approached officers with the suspect’s name, Linders said.

The St. Paul cases occurred at gas stations and convenience stores along East and West Seventh Street, Rice Street and University, Grand, Snelling and White Bear avenues. 

Russell’s whereabouts are unknown, according to Roseville police. He is believed to be driving a 2005 gray 4-door Chevrolet Malibu with Minnesota license plate number 058 UGY.

Russell’s criminal history includes convictions for aggravated robbery, simple robbery, assault, violation of protection orders, domestic abuse and theft, according to Roseville police. He is considered dangerous and shouldn’t be approached by members of the public.

Anyone with information about Russell is asked to call their local law enforcement department or 911.

The second of three men involved in an attempted robbery that left a Maplewood father dead in the fall of 2015 has been sentenced.

Bradley James Cook, 36, was sentenced Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court to one year in jail on one count of aiding and abetting first-degree burglary.

The term was agreed upon by both the prosecution and the defense in the case after Cook agreed to testify against his accomplices in the deadly break-in, Brandon Lamar Cooper, 30, and Ernest Donald Atchison, Jr. 33.

Cooper fatally shot Justin Niles Wright Nov. 7, 2015, while the three were attempting to burglarize the 31-year-old father’s home on the 2200 block of Hazel St.

They had heard that Wright was a drug dealer and were targeting his marijuana.

According to the criminal complaint, Wright’s girlfriend told officers she and Wright had been asleep when she woke to a strange voice just outside the bedroom saying, “Tell me where it’s at.”

Wright also was in the hallway, she said, and she saw him lunge toward a dark figure. Then she heard a single gunshot and saw Wright stagger through the house, eventually collapsing in the living room.

Police found Wright dead on the living room floor after his girlfriend called 911.

They also discovered signs of forced entry in the garage and a 9mm shell casing in the bedroom hallway. Later that day, officers found a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun two blocks away. DNA from the handgun matched DNA on file for Cooper.

During his plea hearing last July, Cook said Cooper

admitted shooting Wright after Wright unexpectedly confronted him while the men were looking through the home.

Atchison also took a plea deal in the case. Previously charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and two counts of burglary, he pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree burglary this past August.

He is expected to be sentenced next week.

Wright had two children.

A relative of Wright’s who attended Cook’s sentencing Wednesday said he wanted to thank Maplewood police for their work investigating the case.

NEW YORK — A jilted ex-boyfriend is behind at least eight of the scores of threats made against Jewish Community Centers nationwide, plus a bomb threat to New York’s Anti-Defamation League, in an effort to harass and vilify his former girlfriend, federal officials said Friday.

Juan Thompson was arrested in St. Louis and will appear in federal court in Missouri on Friday afternoon on a charge of cyberstalking, authorities said. There was no information on an attorney who could comment on his behalf.

According to a federal complaint, Thompson dated the woman until last summer, when they broke up. The following day, her boss received an email purporting to be from a national news organization saying that she’d been pulled over for drunken driving.

The harassment got worse from there, federal officials said.

The Anti-Defamation League received an email on Feb. 21 that said she was behind the bomb threats to JCCs and there would be more the next day. On Feb. 22, it received a phoned-in bomb threat.

He also claimed she was responsible for placing a bomb in a Jewish center in Dallas, and he also emailed a JCC in San Diego saying she wanted to “kill as many Jews asap.”

According to information on the criminal complaint none of the Jewish centers targeted were in Minnesota.

Federal officials have been investigating 122 bomb threats called into nearly 100 JCC schools, child care and other similar facilities in three dozen states.

Associated Press writer Jim Salter in St. Louis contributed to this report.

CROOKSTON, Minn. — A northern Minnesota letter carrier faces felony charges after prosecutors say he broke into a customer’s garage and engaged in a sexual act with a dog.

Brian Louis George L. Chapman, 21, has been charged with one count of second-degree burglary, a felony, and one count of bestiality, a misdemeanor for acts alleged to have taken place Feb. 6.

According to a criminal complaint, a Polk County man noticed the mailman was spending a long time in his garage to drop off a package. When the man reviewed surveillance cameras in his garage, he observed the mailman engage in a sexual act with his dog at about 1:30 p.m. Feb. 6. 

A Polk County sheriff’s deputy also reviewed the footage and observed the mailman enter with a package, set down the package and then engage in a sexual act with a dog, which stays in the garage.

The U.S. Postal Service did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Chapman’s employment status.

The burglary charge carries a maximum 10-year sentence with a potential $20,000 fine. The beastiality charge is punishable by 90 days in jail or a $1,000 fine.

Prosecutors on Friday charged Diamond Reynolds with felony assault in an alleged hammer attack on a woman in St. Paul.

Reynolds, 27, received worldwide attention in July when she live-streamed on Facebook the immediate aftermath of her boyfriend Philando Castile’s fatal shooting by a St. Anthony police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights. Officer Jeronimo Yanez has been charged with manslaughter in connection to the shooting.

On Tuesday, police say a 24-year-old woman in St. Paul suffered serious injuries in an assault. Officers arrested Reynolds and two other women in the case Thursday, and they were all charged Friday.

One of the woman told police “there was a continuing conflict between her and” a friend of Tuesday’s assault victim. In February, Reynolds “specifically” threatened “to come after the victim” in a Facebook post, according to the criminal complaint.

Reynolds, of West St. Paul, was charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and third-degree assault – inflicting substantial bodily harm.

Police were notified about the case around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. Officers responded to a 911 call about an assault in progress on Jessamine Lane near Hazelwood Street, and paramedics took the victim to Regions Hospital.

At the hospital, officers saw the victim had blood on her face that appeared to be coming from her forehead, along with blood on her shirt. She reported she’d been driving earlier on Magnolia Avenue when she noticed a sport-utility vehicle make a U-turn and follow her as she approached Barclay Street. As she parked on Jessamine Lane and got out of her vehicle, she heard someone holler at her, the complaint said.

The woman looked up and saw Reynolds and another woman, later identified as 28-year-old Chnika Blair, coming at her. Reynolds ran up and punched her in the head with a closed fist, while Blair grabbed her hair, according to the complaint.

At one point, Reynolds hit her in the head with a hammer, knocking her to the ground and continued to strike her in the head with the hammer when she was on the ground, the complaint continued. The woman said she “blacked out for a moment” and then saw Reynolds striking her vehicle’s windshield, which broke.

Another vehicle pulled up and a woman she knew as Dyamond Richardson, 25, got out, chased her down and sprayed bear repellent at her, according to the complaint. The suspects then left in two vehicles with seven or eight people between them.

After police arrested Richardson, she told them about the past conflict between her and the victim’s friend, identified in the complaint as Y.G. On Feb. 9, the victim and Y.G. came to Richardson’s work and started a fight with her, Richardson reported.

Reynolds claimed Y.G. had damaged her vehicle and wanted to fight, according to Richardson. Blair and Reynolds “agreed to help Richardson fight and find Y.G.,” so they rode in two different vehicles to the victim’s house in search of Y.G., the complaint continued.

Richardson said that when she got there, “the victim was getting up off the ground and was all ‘jacked up,’ as she was bleeding from the face and her hair was matted,” and she tried to use bear spray on her, the complaint said.

Richardson and Blair, who are both St. Paul residents, were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and aiding and abetting third-degree assault – inflicting substantial bodily harm.

The Ramsey County attorney’s office asked Washington County to handle the case to avoid a conflict of interest. Reynolds is listed as a victim and witness in Ramsey County’s case against officer Yanez.

Reynolds’ attorney could not be reached for comment Friday. She is scheduled to make her first court appearance in the case Monday.

TRAUMATIC MEMORIES

Reynolds said in November, after Yanez was charged with manslaughter, that her memories of what happened to Castile were traumatic. Reynolds was in the front passenger seat and her then-4-year-old daughter was in the backseat when Yanez fired into the car.

The officer is also charged with two felony counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm. Prosecutors say the officer endangered the lives of Reynolds and her daughter. Yanez pleaded not guilty on Monday. 

“Every day I can’t believe that happened. … It’s like a nightmare I am trying to wake up from,” Reynolds said in November. She said then that faith kept her going, particularly as it became increasingly hard to find work.

Reynolds was working at a hotel in downtown St. Paul when Castile, her boyfriend of three years, was killed. She subsequently lost her job and hadn’t been able to find stable employment. She said in November that she suspected it was because people recognized her.

A man walked into a Maplewood Menards with a $400 level and no receipt.

When a store employee declined to return it, he got angry and started slashing tires in retaliation, authorities say.

A criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court on Thursday charges Shawn Russell Museus via warrant with one count of felony-level criminal damage to property.

The 32-year-old St. Paul man attempted to make the return about 5:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at a Menards at 2280 Maplewood Drive, according to the complaint.

When his return was denied, he got back into his vehicle and drove with another man to a portion of the store’s parking lot where several Menards rental trucks were stored, according to the complaint.

Then he climbed out holding a large knife and proceeded to slash six tires on two trucks, the complaint said. He also damaged two windows.

Damages were estimated at $2,400.

Museus was later arrested and declined to give a statement, according to the complaint said.

His criminal history includes convictions for first, second- and third-degree-burglary, as well as fourth-degree criminal damage to property and domestic assault.