In February 2015, a man jumped a security fence protecting Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and was arrested near a terminal gate after crossing the airfield. Authorities found a knife on him.

An Associated Press investigation uncovered the perimeter security breach. Airport officials did not reveal the breach when AP first asked. Last year, airport officials acknowledged 10 intrusions since 2004.

Federal records showed the eleventh breach — the man told authorities he went for a walk from a nearby hotel to avoid a fight with his girlfriend. An apologetic airport spokesman said a records search missed the incident.

Airports say their perimeters are strong and note that no breach involved a known terrorist plot.

Nationally, breaches happen about every 10 days at one of the 31 major airports AP studied.

A Fargo, N.D., woman was arrested and jailed Wednesday night on suspicion of having fired a gun near the Hawley Elementary School.

A custodian working at the school Wednesday evening called authorities after finding a woman sitting in his car parked near the school who was making delusional statements, according to a report from police in Hawley, near Fargo.

Officers arrived and determined that the woman had fired a gun at a window of the custodian’s vehicle in an attempt to gain access to the vehicle and steal it.

The woman was taken into custody and a .40-caliber handgun and ammunition were recovered from the woman’s vehicle, which apparently had broken down and was parked near the school.

According to Clay County Jail records, Leslie Jean McCRoskey, 34, of Fargo, is being held pending possible charges that included reckless discharge of a firearm, criminal damage to property and felony possession of a firearm in a school zone.

St. Paul police say a man fired at officers Thursday afternoon and police shot back, killing the man. No officers were injured during the incident in a house on East Minnehaha Avenue, near Ruth Street.

Officers were conducting an investigation on the 2100 block of East Minnehaha Avenue, near Winthrop Street and a couple of blocks from the Maplewood border, when they encountered a man in a bedroom of the home about 2:15 p.m., said Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman.

“The male was armed and preliminary information leads us to believe that he fired at officers,” Linders said. “An officer or officers returned fire, striking the male. … Thankfully, no officers were hurt as a result of this shooting. It was a very dangerous situation.”

Police did not provide information about what kind of investigation they were conducting Thursday, but a police report shows officers had been at the home last week and found suspected methamphetamine, marijuana and a rifle.

After Thursday’s shooting, paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene. The Ramsey County medical examiner’s office will confirm his identity.

Tom Christopherson, who lives about a half-block behind the shooting scene, said he was gardening in his back yard when he heard two or three shots, a pause of no more than a second, and then five or six more shots.

He heard nothing else and went to the front of his house. Christopherson said he saw a woman who appeared to be in her 30s who was being put in the back of a squad car. Another man in the neighborhood said he heard three shots and soon saw a man in handcuffs being taken into custody.

“I’m actually a little floored that shots were fired in this neighborhood, said Christopherson, who has lived in his home for about four years. “This is a pretty safe neighborhood.”

Some neighbors were aware of recent police activity at the home where the shooting occurred, and the police report showed officers had responded to the residence at 7 a.m. May 17 after a woman said a man at the home had a felony warrant for his arrest and that “there were four or five people in the house with a lot of meth.”

Officers did not find the man with the warrant, but saw suspected meth and marijuana “in plain view … on a TV tray with other items used to package meth,” according to the report. Police seized the suspected drugs, a rifle they found when they checked the residence for anyone hiding, and a handgun magazine with five live rounds. Officers also noted there were cameras on the sides and back of the residence.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the officer-involved shooting because the St. Paul Police Department has begun having outside law enforcement agencies conduct such investigations. The BCA is interviewing people and expects to release more information Friday, a spokeswoman said.

The officers involved in the shooting will be placed on administrative leave, which is standard in such cases.

On Thursday afternoon, Shoua Yang was walking her dogs in the area when she heard sirens and headed to her Reaney Avenue home because she wasn’t sure what was happening. She went inside and was playing the piano when she said she heard a faint gunshot.

“Your instinct is to duck down,” she said, adding that she dropped down to the floor. After hearing no more shots, Yang went out and checked in with a police officer, who she said told her there had been a shootout.

Police had a large presence on East Minnehaha Avenue after the shooting, and a section of the street remained blocked off Thursday night.

Eastern Heights Elementary School, which is roughly a half-mile from the home where the shooting occurred, was put on lockdown for about 15 minutes, according to a school district spokesman.

Thursday’s officer-involved shooting was the second in St. Paul this month. Early on May 9, the BCA reported that 33-year-old Jaffort Smith shot a woman in the face and fired at officers in the North End. Police fatally shot Smith after he “ignored repeated calls for him to drop his weapon,” according to the BCA.

Jaime DeLage contributed to this report.

In November, a St. Paul man was sitting in a car trying to buy marijuana when the middleman who arranged the sale — according to police and prosecutors — shot the dealer dead without provocation.

The man — identified in court documents only by the initials CH — is a key witness in the state’s murder case against Demetrius Ramon Smoot, who is accused of pulling the trigger. Now, two other men are charged with trying to intimidate the witness ahead of Smoot’s upcoming trial.

Arnold Lee Scott, 23, of St. Paul, and Kenny Ray Smoot Jr., 32, also of St. Paul — the latter of whom Demetrius referred to as his brother, according to court documents  — were charged Thursday in Ramsey County District Court with first-degree witness tampering. Scott was also charged with being a felon in possession of a gun.

According to the charges:

The witness, CH, was visiting with a relative early Wednesday morning. The relative is friends with Demetrius Smoot — against whom CH was scheduled to testify in the trial for the November shooting, set to begin May 31.

The relative told CH “the word on the street is that (CH) snitched” and that “people have put a ‘green light’ on him as a target,” the charges said. The relative said CH needed to leave town until the trial is over “because without him, the State doesn’t have a case.”

CH was scheduled to meet with Smoot’s defense attorneys later Wednesday morning at the Ramsey County courthouse. Prosecutors hadn’t disclosed CH’s address because they worried it would put him at risk.

Before the meeting, though, CH saw Scott and Kenny Smoot outside his building. He saw Smoot hand a gun to Scott, according to the charges. CH called police. When officers arrived, Scott fled, tossing aside a loaded pistol that was recovered. Both men were arrested.

Jail phone records showed Demetrius Smoot calling Scott on Monday night and telling him: “That birthday party starts Wednesday, 10, 10:30” — the date and time of CH’s meeting with his attorneys — “but that (expletive) gotta be there early.”

The next day, Demetrius Smoot called his mother’s address and spoke with a man believed to be Kenny, giving him the same information, according to the charges.

A Minneapolis man on trial for plotting to go to Syria to join the Islamic State group testified Thursday that he thought about leaving the United States because he could feel the government closing in, but said he had no real plan and believed a scheme to get fake passports for the journey was a bad idea.

Guled Ali Omar, 21, is one of three men on trial in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on multiple counts. The most serious is conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States, which carries the possibility of life in prison. He is the only defendant to testify.

Prosecutors have said the men were part of a larger group of friends in Minnesota’s Somali community who recruited and inspired each other to go to Syria. Six other men who were part of the alleged plot have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to support a foreign terrorist organization. A 10th man is at-large, believed to be in Syria.

During the trial, which is in its third week, prosecutors played secretly recorded conversations in which the men discussed travel plans, including the possibility of obtaining fake passports to go to Syria via Mexico.

Omar testified that he and his friends held regular study groups to discuss the Quran. He said that after one man left for Syria, the group began discussing the political situation there, but the group was not like the government portrayed it and he knew of no legitimate plans for anyone to travel.

The men became paranoid by late 2014 after one man who was stopped from traveling earlier that year learned he would be soon arrested. Omar said he and others were followed by the FBI. One group member, Abdirahman Bashir, told Omar that he had met with two FBI agents who asked if Omar was a recruiter. Omar said Bashir told him, “Guled, I think you are in big trouble.”

Omar said Bashir, who became an FBI informant and began recording conversations, suggested that Omar leave the country.

“I was confused,” Omar said, adding that he had anxiety and paranoia and was self-medicating with marijuana and the prescription drug Xanax. “I felt like everyday somebody was going to break into my house and snatch me away from my family.”

Omar said he was told about a scheme to get fake passports. Omar initially told Bashir it was a good idea, but then began having doubts. He said he never provided Bashir with money or passport photos. Omar also testified that he felt conflicted and pressured to choose between his family and his religious beliefs.

Some of Omar’s testimony contradicted that of Bashir and other witnesses.

Omar spoke emphatically as he explained that his previous attempts to travel outside Minnesota were not attempts to join militant groups, as the government has alleged, but were meant to be vacations. One planned trip to Kenya in 2012 was supposed to be for a wedding, he said, not to join his brother — who left Minnesota in 2007 to join al-Shabab in Somalia.

Omar cried as he talked about the pain his brother’s departure inflicted on his family, especially his mother. A handful of women in the gallery began sobbing; a few left the courtroom.

The FBI has said about a dozen people have left Minnesota to join militant groups fighting in Syria in recent years. Since 2007, more than 22 men have joined al-Shabab in Somalia.

Police are investigating after a woman was fatally shot in North Minneapolis on Thursday evening.

According to police, officers were called to a reported shooting at 21st Avenue North and Penn Avenue North shortly after 6 p.m.

Officers at the scene found a woman seated in a vehicle and suffering from a gunshot wound. She was taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, where she subsequently died. The woman was an innocent bystander, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau.

Police said they identified possible suspects in a home in the 2100 block of Oliver Avenue North. Officers surrounded the house and took several people into custody.

The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office will release the victim’s identity and other details of her death. However, KSTP-TV reported that her family identified her as 59-year-old Birdell Beatrice Beeks.

Harteau said they will step up patrols in the area in the coming days.

“As we continue to work aggressively to address our increase in gun violence, one of my greatest concerns has been realized: people with no regard for the lives of those in our community taking the life of an innocent bystander. This is intolerable and unacceptable,” Harteau said in a statement Friday. “We have put every additional resource into the areas plagued by gun violence that we can, while continuing to patrol and protect all parts of the city. We are aggressively going after known gang members or those in cliques that are responsible for this continuance of violence, which effects each and every person in our community.”

Anyone with information about Thursday’s homicide is asked to call the Minneapolis police tipline at 612-692-TIPS (8477) or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (TIPS).

Chief Harteau Statement on Recent Violence

“As we continue to work aggressively to address our increase in gun violence, one of my greatest concerns has been realized; people with no regard for the lives of those in our community taking the life of an innocent bystander. This is intolerable and unacceptable. The fact that our officers made arrests immediately and have been following up on information from those arrests gives me some comfort that justice will be served, but it cannot replace a life that should have never been lost.

We have put every additional resource into the areas plagued by gun violence that we can, while continuing to patrol and protect all parts of the city. We are aggressively going after known gang members or those in cliques that are responsible for this continuance of violence, which effects each and every person in our community.

In addition, 12 new officers will be put on the streets of the 4th Precinct on June 12th. That is in addition to the extra squads we are already sending to the area for extra saturation.

Our gang team, our weapons teams and our shooting investigative teams are working all hours to take illegal weapons, and more importantly, dangerous gang members off the streets.  It is clear that they have no concern for others, no reaction to community outrage and little concern for the increased police presence. Furthermore, it would appear they are not deterred by fear of getting caught or the penalties they will face.

I have created a Community Support Team (CST) of well-known and influential community members to not only respond to these scenes, but to help us combat the issues we are facing. This Community Support Team comes from a cross section of community groups in every corner of the city. This team has already begun its work collectively to address this violence and together we know that it must, and will, end.

Finally, I’d like to reiterate the plan we publicly announced and also discussed with community leaders, business leaders, and residents who joined me on West Broadway a few weeks ago. I have added more enforcement strategies and initiatives since then, and will continue to add to the overall plan in the coming days and weeks as necessary.”

May is a tough time for Dave Longbehn.

Six years ago this month, the veteran St. Paul K-9 cop took the life of a man who came close to taking his. Six years later, the memories and flashbacks rush back into his consciousness. They may not be as painful or lingering as in other years. But they still come. So do the tears.

“This was awful,” Longbehn, soft-spoken and reflective by nature, said in a choked voice about the events of May 1, 2010. He suffered serious injuries in a life-and-death struggle with a 21-year-old man who hours earlier had gunned down Maplewood police Sgt. Joe Bergeron.

“This was a terrible thing, and I feel really sorry to this day for the Bergeron family, for the Maplewood Police Department, for Joe’s wife and daughters,” Longbehn said during a nearly two-hour chat recently. “I also felt sorry and thought about this young man’s family. There was no other way it could have ended without myself dying.”

Most cops who take a life rarely speak about it to anyone outside of the blue brotherhood or a close circle of family and friends.

Longbehn chose to share his story in more detail in part to counter a public perception that because his actions were justified, and that because he’s a hero, that he doesn’t have to worry about anything, that he doesn’t need to waste any brain cells thinking about what happened or the man who attacked him.

Real life doesn’t work that way.

“People think that you go around high-fiving, or people say or rejoice that you got rid of one of society’s rejects or trash or whatever some people choose to call them,” Longbehn said. “But that’s not what it is. It’s heartbreaking.”

He knows full well that his traumatic experience doesn’t negate the uproar over questionable officer-involved shootings that have drawn headlines in recent years.

When St. Paul Assistant Chief Todd Axtell sees video of a South Carolina cop fatally shooting an unarmed man running away from him, and other troublesome incidents, “I just get this sick feeling in my stomach because I know that right away, the whole profession is going to take a hit,” said  Axtell, a close friend of Longbehn’s.

“Every cop is going to pay the price with that broad brush,” Axtell added. “But it does not reflect the great work that’s done every day, especially by cops like Dave. He did exactly what he needed to do that day.”

‘EVERYTHING WENT BLACK’

Longbehn, 58, grew up on St. Paul’s West Side. The family home was right behind Humboldt High School. He lasted all of one semester at St. Thomas College.

“Back then, you could drink at 18,” he recalled. “We would grab a case of beer, sit on the lawn, and look at the girls from St. Kate’s. I did not take it seriously.”

But he had known since the third grade he wanted to be a St. Paul cop. That was when his beloved grandmother died of a heart attack in the kitchen of the family home. There was a commotion of people and cops inside the house that morning. He found himself sitting on the living room couch alone, bawling. Then, one of the cops sat next to him and put his arm around him.

“He really took my mind away from all of it,” he said. “He showed tenderness and compassion. I knew even then that’s what I wanted to be and the kind of cop I wanted to be.”

He spent two years as a cop in Richfield before joining the St. Paul force in 1984.

He was working security off-duty at the Midway Walmart store around 9 a.m. that Saturday six years ago when he got a call from a commanding officer. A Maplewood cop had been shot and killed two hours earlier in an ambush at the corner of North English Street and Arlington Avenue near Lake Phalen in St. Paul while looking for two carjacking suspects.

Longbehn was needed to help set up a perimeter during the hunt for the gunman and an accomplice. He went home to get his police dog, Kody. He positioned his squad car at the corner of Ivy and Prosperity avenues, half a mile southeast of the crime scene.

He spotted Jason John Jones, later identified by authorities as Bergeron’s killer, coming out of nearby woods, holding what looked like a toolbox. He got out, approached the man and began asking who he was and where he had come from. What happened next he didn’t see coming. Longbehn was struck flush in the face with a heavy construction steel bolt wrapped in a bandana.

“Everything went black,” Longbehn said. Then, he saw flashes of white lights exploding, like fireworks, followed by a momentary loss of vision and disorientation.

Yet, instinctively, he pulled out his service weapon. As both men fell to the ground, Longbehn felt Jones grab for his gun and figured he must be fighting with the cop-killer. Jones, on top, repeatedly struck Longbehn in the face. The cop held tight to his weapon with both hands, leaving himself vulnerable to the facial blows. He thought about letting go with one hand and activating the bail-out button that would open the rear door of his car and allow Kody to come out and attack his assailant.  But he feared Jones would take control of the gun if he did that.

He was losing energy. He felt the fight leaving him. He saw images of his wife and two kids and the face of a previously slain officer. He saw Jones standing over him and pulling the trigger. He saw the bullet from his own firearm coming closer to his forehead in slow motion. He heard Jones say: “I’m going to kill you, (expletive). You are going to die today, (expletive).”

“I thought, there’s no way I’m going to die on the streets like this,” he recalled. “I did not ever want to be part of the statistic of a police officer killed with his own gun.”

He managed to get back on his feet while struggling with Jones. He feared Jones was still armed with the gun used to kill Bergeron. He was not aware the .380-caliber handgun had been ditched earlier. He was able to push Jones about two or three feet away and wrest control of his gun. He fired. The gun jammed. He remembered, as he was trained to do in case of a jam or malfunction, to “tap and rack” — tap the gun magazine hard on the palm, then quickly deploy the slide to eject the misfired round and chamber the next one.

After both men got off the ground while still grappling, an eyewitness later told investigators: “They kind of squared off a bit. And then the dude went at the cop again, and that’s when the cop shot him.”

Though it felt to him like a lifetime, the struggle and fatal shooting lasted less than a minute.

Longbehn picked up the radio that had been tossed from his gun belt during the struggle and called for backup. Cops and paramedics arrived in less than a minute. He unbuckled his gun belt, including his holstered weapon, now smeared with his own blood, and handed it over to a fellow cop for the requisite probe.

The second suspect, Joshua Michael Martin, was captured without incident, pleaded guilty of aiding and abetting a murder, and is serving a 35.5-year prison sentence.

Paramedics instructed Longbehn to sit on the curb to be attended to. He refused, firing off in anger and frustration a few curse words when they insisted. He had been on the ground. He was not going back there again. They attended to him while he leaned upright against a squad car. He was taken by a fire department rig to Regions Hospital, his face a bloody mess. He was too much in a state of shock, adrenaline pumping, his mind racing, to feel pain.

What had just happened, he thought to himself on the ride to the hospital. Why did it have to happen?

CHOCOLATE CAKE AND EMPATHY

Longbehn looked like he had gone a few rounds with Mike Tyson and blocked the blows with his face: blackened eyes, a badly fractured nose that would have to be broken again to be straightened, and bruised eye sockets. He would be treated and released later that night, though a battery of doctor appointments and procedures would follow.

There was a knock at the front door early the following morning. It was St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, holding a chocolate cake.

“Whatever you need, whatever your family needs, you let us know and I will make it happen,” he told Longbehn. “It’s very important that you heal for your family.”

The mayor was followed by a steady stream of fellow cops and other well-wishers.

“The department, everyone, was just so good to me and my family,” Longbehn said. He saw doctors and a psychiatrist that first month. Though itching to return to work and get back into the routine, he knew he needed time to heal, physically and mentally. Yet, while home, he occasionally scoured the newspaper for an obituary about the man he had killed.

He knew about Jones’ extensive criminal history and that he had been let out of prison on supervised release two months earlier after an aggravated robbery conviction. Reports of retribution or death threats against Longbehn and family members prompted police to guard the family home 24/7 that first week.

Still, “I knew there was another family on the other side of town that did not understand what happened and was mourning the loss of their son, or their brother, a family member,” he told me.

Longbehn was determined to return to the force. Though he has enough years to comfortably retire at any time, he plans to wait until his son and youngest child, Dave Longbehn Jr., a St. Paul parking enforcement officer, enters the police academy. There’s a tradition among father and son/daughter cops that they ride together during the veteran officer’s final days before retirement.

He had asked his son, who was 17 at the time of the fatal shooting, why in the world he wanted to become a cop, given what happened. His son recalled the tenderness and compassion shown to him by the cops who came to the home. Longbehn understood. He remembered the cop who consoled him the day his grandmother died decades ago.

In 2013, Longbehn suffered again when Kody was fatally stabbed while trying to arrest a knife-wielding fugitive sex offender from St. Louis in the basement of a St. Paul home. The suspect was shot and killed by other cops as he lunged at Longbehn and the mortally wounded dog.

Longbehn didn’t retire, again. “I still love this city and love being a cop,” he said.

He had always wondered whether to reach out to members of the Jones family and explain the actions he was forced to take that day. He thought, and was told by others, that it would make things worse. Nearly a year later, a young woman approached him while he was moonlighting at Walmart.

“Are you Dave Longbehn?” she asked him.

She informed him that she was a close female relative of Jones and wanted to find out directly from him what truly happened.

“Absolutely,” he replied. He went to get a box of tissues.

For her? I asked him.

“For both of us.”

They sat down and spoke for about 30 minutes. Tears were shed. He told her everything, including what Jones said to him during the struggle.

“That did not sound like him,” she said, though not in an accusatory tone.

The two embraced.

“If I knew that would be the reaction, I would have reached out earlier to them in a heartbeat,” he told me. “That whole day, it’s just sad.”

Ramsey County prosecutors are dropping kidnapping and sexual assault charges against a man accused of chaining up a teen in his basement for days, saying the victim had become reluctant to participate in the case.

Wilbert Glover, 56, of St. Paul was charged in November after the victim — a 19-year-old man — stumbled to a neighboring home in St. Paul’s North End, bloodied, manacled at the wrists and ankles, and pleading for help, according to court documents.

He said he’d been abducted while walking down the street and knocked out; he woke up bound and blindfolded in a basement where his attacker — whom he never saw — sexually assaulted him for four days while threatening to hurt his family if he resisted. The man said he eventually escaped through a window and fled for help, according to court documents.

Police found the house and arrested Glover there.

Glover, who was released from prison in Illinois in 2008 after convictions for murder, attempted murder and kidnapping, was set to stand trial in June. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges, including two felony charges he still faces for having a gun after being convicted of a violent crime.

But prosecutors dismissed the other charges Thursday because of “significant evidentiary issues,” said Dennis Gerhardstein, a spokesman for the Ramsey County attorney’s office.

“We no longer believe that we could prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt,” he said.

Prosecutors said the victim — the key witness in the case — had become uncooperative and that new information uncovered in the investigation suggested they had an existing relationship.

Officials have identified a man who was shot and killed by St. Paul police after he allegedly fired at them Thursday afternoon on the East Side.

The Ramsey County medical examiner’s office identified the man as Eugene Francis Smith, one of about a half-dozen people living at the house at 2163 E. Minnehaha Avenue. Smith fired at officers after they shot a pit bull that charged at them, and then officers returned fire, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s preliminary investigation.

Smith, 29, died of multiple gunshot wounds, the medical examiner said.

“Around 2:15 p.m. Thursday, several St. Paul police officers had entered Smith’s home as part of an active investigation. One of the officers fatally shot a pit bull that was charging at them in the living room. The officers then entered a first floor bedroom and were immediately fired upon by Smith,” the BCA wrote in a statement Friday. “One of the officers fired back, fatally striking Smith, who was pronounced dead at the scene.”

The officer who shot Smith has been identified as Joshua Raichert, who has been with the St. Paul Police Department for 10 years.

No officers were injured, and the officers involved are on standard administrative leave.

Authorities did not provide information about what kind of investigation they were conducting Thursday, but a police report shows officers had been at the home last week and found suspected methamphetamine, marijuana and a rifle.

‘PRETTY PEACEFUL GUY’

Justine Connors, a cousin of Smith’s, said he came to St. Paul from Chicago about five or six years ago and worked in construction for a friend.

Connors, who considered Smith a close friend, said she spoke to him on the phone about 45 minutes before he was shot.

“I was out of cigarettes, and he said he would give me one. So I started walking over there, and when I got there, the house was taped off,” Connors said.

Connors said Smith was at the home alone with his girlfriend of several months and his dog, a 7-month-old pit bull whose image is the banner of Smith’s Facebook page.

“He was not the type of person to just shoot at people, especially a cop,” Connors said. “He’s always been a pretty peaceful guy, calm, never too quick to anger. He was one to sit there and evaluate things that were going on and would only step into it if he had to.”

A neighbor who was gardening in his back yard told the Pioneer Press he heard two or three shots, a pause of no more than a second, and then five or six more shots.

Neighbors were aware of recent police activity at the home where the shooting occurred, and the police report showed officers had responded to the residence at 7 a.m. May 17 after a woman said a man at the home had a felony warrant for his arrest and that “there were four or five people in the house with a lot of meth.”

Officers did not find the man with the warrant but saw suspected meth and marijuana “in plain view … on a TV tray with other items used to package meth,” according to the report.

Police seized the suspected drugs, a rifle they found when they checked the residence for anyone hiding, and a handgun magazine with five live rounds. Officers also noted there were cameras on the sides and back of the residence.

The BCA is investigating the officer-involved shooting because the St. Paul Police Department has begun having outside law enforcement agencies conduct such investigations. The BCA will turn its findings over to the Ramsey County attorney’s office for review when its investigation is complete.

Thursday’s incident was the second fatal officer-involved shooting in St. Paul this month.

Jaime DeLage contributed to this report.

Two men who were charged with engaging in prostitution of minors following a sex trafficking sting operation in Woodbury have been sentenced in Washington County District Court.

Gordon Patrick Jones, 33, of Clayton, Wis., was arrested Sept. 17 after he responded to an online ad on Backpage that read “Bring yur fantesies and $$$$ make me smile and we’ll make you shivver.” The ad was posted by police conducting the sting, which resulted in arrests of 13 men.

According to the criminal complaint, Jones exchanged text messages with police posing as minors ages 17 and 15. He arranged to meet at the Red Roof Inn in Woodbury, where he was arrested. He was carrying $8,055 in cash.

Jones pleaded guilty to a prostitution charge and on Wednesday was given a 30-day jail sentence to be served on work release and five years on probation.

Nathan John Mravinc, 36, of Hudson, Wis., responded to the same Backpage ad Sept. 17, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint said the undercover officer who responded to Mravinc’s contact said a sex act would cost $100, but Mravinc offered to pay only $80 “because something is better than nothing.”

Mravinc also was arrested at the Red Roof Inn and admitted he was there to pay for sex with a 17-year-old, the complaint said.

He pleaded guilty to a prostitution charge and was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation and a stayed jail sentence of 363 days.

A St. Paul man’s coffee was just hot enough for a felony.

After butting in front of a pregnant woman standing in line at a St. Paul Salvation Army location, a man threw scalding hot coffee on the woman’s husband when he objected, police said.

The alleged line-cutter and coffee-tosser, Steven J. Olson, 61, was booked for aggravated assault Wednesday morning after the husband was taken to a local hospital with severe blistering on his back.

The wife, who was seven months pregnant, was unhurt. Police arrested Olson without incident when they arrived at the Salvation Army in the 400 block of West Seventh Street.

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. — It may be Memorial Day weekend, but in East Grand Forks it’s more like Halloween.

That’s because police are trying to figure out how human body parts ended up at an East Grand Forks campground.

It’s the main campfire conversation at Red River State Recreation Area.

“I can’t figure out why they would be there,” said camper Donald Borg.

He’s referring to the discovery of what appear to be two human fingers found around 5 p.m. Thursday.

“Just a citizen walking through the campground found them sitting on a picnic table,” said Lt. Rod Hajicek with the East Grand Forks Police Department.

Police say they appear to be a middle and ring finger.

“I looked at them, they had fingernails on them, they look human,” Hajicek said.

The fingers have been sent to the state crime lab for further investigation, and to confirm whether or not they are human. If they are, investigators will pull prints from the fingers, and compare them to other fingerprints on file in an effort to help identify who the fingers may belong to.

“I don’t believe in my 26 years here that we’ve ever had human body parts come in to the office,” Hajicek said.

At this point police aren’t sure if the fingers were severed during an accident or if foul play was involved.

“It’s hard to speculate at this time we will continue to investigate. This whole thing is very strange,” Hajicek said.

Borg is just here for the weekend, but it’s a mystery he will be following from home in Canada.

“It would be nice to read about this and where they came from and whose are they,” he said.

A Wisconsin man has been charged with secretly recording video in a woman’s locker room in a Duluth law enforcement building.

WCCO-TV reports Jeffrey Dominick Giacomini, 29, of Superior faces five counts of interference of property and two counts of harassment/stalking.

According to a criminal complaint, Giacomini worked as a janitor in Duluth’s Public Safety Building. A search of his laptop revealed 20 videos recorded with a hidden camera inside the building’s women’s locker room. Prosecutors say seven different women can be seen changing clothes and moving in and out of the shower.

WCCO-TV’s report didn’t say whether Giacomini has an attorney. The Wisconsin public defender’s office is defending him in a disorderly conduct case in that state but the office’s voicemail wouldn’t take messages Saturday.

Police in Alexandria say a 31-year-old Glenwood man died after a reported fight in a park.

Officers responded just before 1 a.m. Sunday to a call of a fight with a man down and seizing at Legion Park, the Alexandria police department said.

The officers attended to the 31-year-old man, who was suffering from apparent head trauma. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital but died.

Police say officers spoke with several witnesses and detained a 19-year-old man involved in the fight, but he was released after further investigation.

No names were released. This case remains under investigation.

A 25-year-old Aitkin man died Saturday night when his pickup went off road and rolled several times.

The Minnesota Patrol said Mason D. Espeseth was killed around 11:45 p.m. Saturday after the 2008 Ford Super Duty he was driving east on Deer Street, in rural Aitkin County, when the pickup veered off road.

When Espeseth tried to gain control, the pickup flipped rolling several times before coming to rest in the ditch.

Prominent Twin Cities attorney and longtime radio host Ron Rosenbaum died Sunday from an aggressive form of cancer, his wife announced via a Facebook post. He was 68.

Rosenbaum was a regular guest on The Dan Barreiro Show on KFXN-FM 100.3, joining the broadcaster to talk about current issues — both locally and nationally — involving the courts and the law, and the two also co-hosted a television show. Rosenbaum hosted a talk radio show, Holding Court, from 1998 to 2006 and was known for acute analysis of government actions, such as the Patriot Act. He and his wife, former Pioneer Press reporter and editor Lucy Quinlivan, co-hosted the Holding Court podcast.

As an attorney, Rosenbaum was involved in several high-profile cases, including representing a former Minnesota North Stars employee who accused owner Norm Green of sexual harassment. He also was involved in a case involving the University of Minnesota men’s basketball program and academic fraud and won a medical malpractice suit that garnered a record settlement in the state of Minnesota.

“I’m deeply sorry to announce that Ron, my longtime partner and recent husband, died this morning from complications of multiple myeloma,” Quinlivan wrote on her Facebook page Sunday.

“He died at home, as he had wished, and his son, Nicholas, and I are grateful for the help we received from Our Lady of Peace community hospice program and many friends and relatives who offered support and comfort these past several weeks.

“Ron was a rare and special character. His wonderful sense of humor was never exercised at the expense of other people’s vulnerabilities, and he had a well-developed sense of justice and fairness that had little to do with whether something was legal.

“Ron collected and made fast, lifelong friends with the most interesting people from every phase of his life. Many of the people closest to him, including me, met and became friends through him, a fact that delighted him and made him proud.”

Quinlivan and Rosenbaum met “and fell in love” when she was covering the courts beat for the Pioneer Press. They’ve been together since 2001.

On April 23, a Saturday, the couple held an open house where people “showed up to wish him well after he was released from a long hospital stay,” Quinlivan said.

“This was an amazing thing,” she said. “It was just through word of mouth and a couple hundred people showed up.”

They began planning the open house Tuesday, ordering hors d’oeuvres and wine. By Saturday, people had flown in from both coasts and from across the country to visit with Rosenbaum.

“Ron was his gracious charming self,” Quinlivan said. “He joked with people; he was so incredibly touched that all of these people showed up.”

The couple married two hours before the open house on the back deck of their St. Paul home with Rosenbaum’s brother, Jim Rosenbaum, a former federal judge, officiating.

“It was to formalize our longtime relationship that has been a partnership and marriage in all but name for years,” Quinlivan said.

Jim Rosenbaum said his brother had a prominent role in the public but was very close to his family and cared tremendously about them.

“He had extremely broad interests, was intelligent and had an acerbic wit,” Jim Rosenbaum said. “He had a great interest in the underdog. He cared about people immensely, and people were attracted to him so he made friends easily and enjoyed talking to people and laughing with them, but also became a champion of many of their concerns.”

In the 1970s, Ron Rosenbaum, who had a master’s degree in education from Brown University, was part of a group of educators in Minnesota appointed by Federal Judge Wendell Garrity Jr. to take over a Boston school in a major battle over desegregation busing. The judge in the case essentially dissolved the Boston School Board, took over the school and brought in a team of educators, mostly from Minnesota, to run the school, Jim Rosenbaum said.

While he was on the East Coast, Rosenbaum attended law school at Northeastern University, wrote for the Boston Globe and took part in a public television show, which kicked off what would be a long career and interest in law, radio and journalism back in Minnesota.

“He was my friend, my conscience, my ultimate go-to guy. His loyalty was fierce, mind agile, presence unmistakable. There will be no other,” Barreiro wrote on Twitter.

Along with his respect of Rosenbaum as a person, Barreiro said Sunday night that he had tremendous respect for Rosenbaum’s ability to be an “equal opportunity critic” on their radio and TV shows. He said their listeners appreciated Rosenbaum’s rationality and well-thought responses to issues and situations.

Barreiro said that even though close friends had known of Rosenbaum’s battle with cancer and had the opportunity to spend time and have conversations with him before he died, his passing was still a blow.

“I thought I had come to grips with this a bit, but now that it’s happened, it’s overwhelming,” Barreiro said Sunday night. “It is one of those voices that is difficult for me to think of being stilled. It’s very difficult.”

While Rosenbaum was “as tough a negotiator I’ve ever known” he was also great at settling cases, said Joe Friedberg, a friend and lawyer. “He was smarter than the average bear and had a great facility for knowing what other people were thinking.”

Friedberg was on Rosenbaum’s radio show Holding Court and said that the show broke new ground.

“It was a show that attempted to explain the law to laymen, essentially,” Friedberg said. “He made a profession out of doing that for years and was able to do it better than anybody I’ve ever known. He would say he didn’t always have an answer to every legal question, but he had a marvelous talent for explaining the law to people who were not studied in the law.”

“He was as good a friend as a person could have,” Friedberg said.

Rosenbaum and his partner were able to settle a medical malpractice suit that was the largest medical malpractice settlement in the history of the state of Minnesota, Friedberg said.

It involved a hospital leaving a woman unattended in a recovery room. The woman became comatose for the rest of her life.

He was able to prove the hospital was trying to cover up its error, Friedberg said.

For many years, he and Quinlivan hosted the Holding Court podcast, talking about everything from law and politics to media, sports and entertainment.

Rosenbaum and Barreiro teamed on “Enough Said” for the past two years on local Fox affiliate KMSP. The show’s website described it as a show where the two hosts “use their own unique sense of humor to discuss local and national headlines, as well as pop culture and politics.”

Rosenbaum last appeared on the Friday night show on April 15.

When Rosenbaum visited Tom Barnard’s podcast in 2013, the radio host described him in this way:

“Brash, opinionated and consistently outspoken, the irascible Ron Rosenbaum is an authentic Twin Cities character. Rosenbaum is (in no particular order) a lover of gambling, cigars, and — most of all — calling it as he sees it. His political beliefs may best be described as iconoclastic. In other words, he’s not drinking anybody’s Kool-aid. He brings to Twin Cities News Talk years of experience working in talk radio and television. Years ago when he was — as he puts it — ‘young and stupid,’ he was recruited to help tame racially torn South Boston High School. He’s also been a Boston Globe correspondent and a practicing attorney, a Minnesota Law & Politics ‘Super Lawyer’ for years. If you’re looking around town for him, your best bet is on the golf course, in the bar at The Lex or at Canterbury Park.”

Friends and local personalities posted remembrances of Rosenbaum on Twitter:

Arrangements for a memorial service are pending.

A woman was in custody Monday in St. Paul after allegedly dousing another woman with a flammable liquid and then setting her on fire.

St. Paul police spokesman Sgt. Mike Ernster said the incident occurred about 12:30 p.m. in the 700 block of Conway Street.

When officers arrived at the location, they found an adult woman with severe burns on her upper torso, he said.

She was taken to Regions Hospital. Her injuries were not believed to be life threatening, Ernster said.

A woman was taken into custody in connection with the incident, he said.

What led up to the alleged dousing, what kind of flammable liquid was used and other details of the incident were not immediately released.

A Princeton, Minn., man faces felony charges for allegedly defrauding an elderly Milaca, Minn., business owner out of more than $350,000.

Adam R. Reichow, 43, was charged in Mille Lacs County Court with two counts of racketeering, three counts of theft by swindle and two counts of falsifying tax returns, according to a state Department of Commerce release.

According to the criminal complaint, Reichow was hired to work as a laborer in 2010 for Dalchow Seeds. The owner of of the company, an 82-year-old man not named in the release, allowed Reichow to manage accounts and business funds because of the owner’s failing health.

The report said Reichow used the stolen money to buy farm properties, livestock and machinery.

Reichow’s wife, Mary Kay Reichow, also faces two counts of filing false tax returns. A review of the couple’s tax returns show federal adjusted gross incomes of $13,582 in 2010 and $11,519 in 2011, while investigators say bank records show that in 2011 they received more than $219,000 from the victim.

Before St. Paul’s mayor interviews the finalists vying to become the city’s police chief, the five will be making their cases to others who could be their future bosses: the community.

At forums on Wednesday and Thursday, four longtime St. Paul police officers and one Minneapolis officer will answer community-submitted questions. Mayor Chris Coleman says he wants people to give him feedback on who they prefer for the job.

“I’m not looking for someone that needs to come in and rock the department or turn it upside down because I think we’re in a very strong position right now,” Coleman said. “I want someone that can continue the work that (recently retired) Chief (Thomas) Smith has done and … continue to build the relationships with the community.” 

A police chief selection committee of 30 community members narrowed down the applicant pool and interviewed seven people. They then selected five finalists — St. Paul Police Assistant Chief Todd Axtell, Cmdr. Colleen Luna, Senior Cmdr. Tina McNamara, interim Assistant Chief Matt Toupal and Minneapolis Police Lt. Eddie Frizell.

St. Paul’s last three police chiefs, who served over the past 24 years, were men of color. Four of the finalists this time are white, and one is African-American. Two of the finalists are women; St. Paul’s current interim chief is a woman, marking the first time a female has held the city’s highest cop job.

Coleman will begin interviewing the finalists Friday and expects to name his pick by the end of June, which will then be subject to City Council approval.

The new chief will manage a budget of nearly $110 million, oversee a department of more than 700 employees and earn a salary of $117,000-160,000.

Challenges facing the next chief include leading the department at a time of scrutiny over police use of force, particularly in communities of color; combating gun violence; keeping up staffing as the city grows; and implementing body cameras.

Here is a look at the five finalists and what they say their priorities as chief would be:

TODD AXTELL

Age: 48

Title: St. Paul assistant police chief for operations, which includes patrol

Law enforcement experience: 26.5 years as a St. Paul police officer and 1.5 years as Breezy Point and Pequot Lakes officer

Highest degree: Master’s in police leadership, administration and education, University of St. Thomas

Residence: St. Paul

The words Todd Axtell says he has lived his career by are “Service With Respect,” and after he became an assistant chief three years ago, he began having that motto put on the side of every new squad car the department obtained. It’s a message that Axtell says he conveys to the 400-plus patrol officers he supervises: that every action they take must be reasonable, necessary and done with respect.

Respect is a trait Axtell said he learned early on from his parents. He grew up in Northfield, Silver Bay and Brainerd. After working as a small-town police officer, Axtell was hired in St. Paul and, like the other chief finalists, rose through the ranks.

Axtell is the only finalist who resides in St. Paul (police officers in Minnesota are not required to live in the city where they serve). He was also a finalist to become St. Paul chief in 2010.

Since Axtell has been assistant chief, he said he has been taking a more critical look at use of force and would continue that work as chief. Any case of an officer using force, including a slight amount, is discussed by Axtell and senior commanders, and they give feedback to officers, which could range from telling them their use was appropriate to re-training or coaching to discipline. Community complaints about use of force declined more than 62 percent in 2014-2015 compared with 2012-2013, Axtell said.

Axtell identifies his top priorities as reducing gang and gun violence through prevention, intervention and enforcement; diversifying the department’s ranks “so that we become reflective of the community we serve,” and building trust through community engagement.

Billy Collins, retired YWCA St. Paul’s chief executive officer, has seen Axtell work with the community in various ways and says Axtell’s initiative for a junior police academy has especially built relationships between young people and officers. The 10th class will graduate this summer, and more than 500 young people, 95 percent of whom are people of color, have participated, Axtell said.

“I’ve seen that Todd has a real passion about strengthening the community; he’s been doing this for many years, and I think as chief that he would continue on that path to better serve the citizens of St. Paul,” Collins said.

EDDIE FRIZELL

Age: 53

Title: Minneapolis police lieutenant supervising domestic assault unit

Law enforcement experience: 23 years as a Minneapolis police officer

Highest degree: Master’s of strategic study, U.S. Army War College and master’s of leadership, Augsburg College

Residence: Maple Grove; says he’d consider moving to St. Paul if named chief

Growing up in Waterloo, Iowa, Eddie Frizell began feeling a pull toward law enforcement when he was young.

The school district was working toward desegregation and Frizell said he was among a small number of African-American students who attended a predominately white high school. Police stopped him “numerous times” in the area, Frizell said, sometimes as he simply stood next to his car.

“I knew if I wanted to change a culture within a police department, I would have to do it from the inside,” Frizell said.

Frizell became a Minneapolis police officer, where his highest rank has been deputy chief of patrol, and ran for Hennepin County sheriff in 2014. He’s also served in the Minnesota Army National Guard since 1989, deployed to Bosnia, Iraq and Kuwait, and became the first African-American colonel in 2013.

When Frizell applied to be St. Paul’s chief, he knew he was going up against a strong tradition. The city has not had a chief from outside the department in modern history, but Frizell said he’s right for the job because “every great organization has to have fresh eyes come in to help it go to the next level.”

Frizell wants to bring more crime-pattern analysis to St. Paul to focus resources. He said he partnered with community members, while using crime analysis, to accomplish crime reductions when he was the head of two precincts in Minneapolis.

Frizell also seeks to bring his experience in diversifying the Minneapolis department to St. Paul. He said he developed Minneapolis’ community service officer program, which pays for two-year law enforcement degrees for the part-time workers, and there was an 18 percent increase in people of color in the Minneapolis police department from 1997 to 2008.

William Blair Anderson, St. Cloud police chief, was a classmate of Frizell’s in the FBI National Academy, a professional development course for law enforcement leaders.

“One of the things that stands out, especially when you start reaching higher ranks, is people who are courageous enough to get input from others, who don’t think they have all the answers,” said Anderson, who has seen that as Frizell’s approach.

COLLEEN LUNA

Age: 54

Title: St. Paul police commander supervising the property crimes unit

Law enforcement experience: 32 years as a St. Paul police officer

Highest degree: Master’s in organizational management, Concordia University

Residence: Inver Grove Heights; says she would move to St. Paul if named chief

Colleen Luna, who is the police chief finalist with the most years of experience, says she’s reached a point in her career where she doesn’t just want people to tell her, “You did a good job.”

“I want to hear what we can work on to actually be better and to have those frank, tough discussions, so that we can work to move forward,” she said.

Growing up in South St. Paul, Luna knew early on she wanted a career that would make a difference in the community. She went to Mankato State University on a softball scholarship and, from her first law enforcement class, could tell it was the right fit.

In her years as a St. Paul officer, Luna was in charge of the department’s internal affairs unit on two occasions and says her work there would help her bring accountability and transparency to the department as a whole.

“She’s always been an outstanding police officer, strong-minded and tough,” said William Finney, who selected Luna and Axtell as his executive officers when he was St. Paul police chief. “She’s somebody you can trust implicitly.”

If she becomes chief, Luna said she would begin by meeting with officers and community members to identify “what are we doing, what are we not doing, what should we be doing and what do we want to do.” Areas she’s looking at include:

• Looking for ways to reduce violent crime and gun violence.

• Recruiting more diverse officers.

• Revisiting the 15-year-old police department agreement with the NAACP, which was reached to address racial profiling, to see what’s working and what should be changed.

Luna was a finalist to become University of Minnesota police chief job in 2015 and for St. Paul chief in 2004 and 2010. With her three children grown, Luna said she’s more ready than ever to become St. Paul’s chief and “try to impact change.”

TINA McNAMARA

Age: 47

Title: St. Paul police senior commander supervising homicide and robbery unit

Law enforcement experience: 23 years as a St. Paul police officer

Highest degree: Master’s in public safety education administration, University of St. Thomas

Residence: Mendota Heights; says she’d consider moving to St. Paul if she gets the job

Seven years ago, Tina McNamara sat in a room at the Dayton’s Bluff Recreation Center as about 30 young men, all said to be gang members, stared at her in silence. She was the new commander of the police department’s gang unit.

McNamara had taken over a grant, which offered training, mentoring and education to get young men get out of gang life and into jobs. Building trust took time, but McNamara said they did, and she’s still in touch with many of the young men. It was finding out about how they grew up, and the poverty they experienced, that would drive one of McNamara’s priorities if she becomes chief.

She said she wants the police department to partner with non-profits, schools, public health, mental health services and more to “meet the needs” of young people instead of seeing them wind up in the criminal justice system for minor offenses, such as breaking curfew or skipping school.

McNamara said she would also have the department reprioritize sex-trafficking investigations, and partner police officers with mental health professionals for an around-the-clock response team to crisis calls.

McNamara’s interest in helping others was inspired by her parents’ careers as public servants. After growing up in Hastings, she attended Mankato State University on a small golf scholarship and thought she wanted to be an attorney, but she was intrigued after she took her first law enforcement class and went on to become a St. Paul police officer.

The connections McNamara has made along the way, such as with Michael Rucker, are what matter to her most. Rucker, now 25, and McNamara met when she was the gang unit commander and he was in the youth program at Dayton’s Bluff Rec Center. He remembers McNamara giving him rides to work when he was a teenager and said she has assisted him with getting jobs more recently.

If McNamara becomes chief, Rucker said he thinks she will “look at everyone who has been through some bad things and see hope in them, see they want to change things around. I really see she’s going to make a change in the community instead of just wanting the title.”

MATT TOUPAL

Age: 49

Title: Interim St. Paul assistant police chief for major crimes, which includes investigations

Law enforcement experience: 26.5 years as a St. Paul police officer

Highest degree: Bachelor’s in police science, St. Mary’s University

Residence: Ham Lake; says he would move to St. Paul if named chief

Matt Toupal’s most recent assignment, before becoming an interim assistant chief, was supervising the department’s Eastern District, where he implemented foot beats last summer.

“I told officers, ‘You’re going to get to know business owners, you’re going to get to know kids, the community … and we’re going to address those crime concerns with them and watch what happens,’ ” Toupal said. The area with the most serious crime saw a 14 percent reduction during the summer and a 57 percent drop in quality-of-life crime, Toupal said, adding that the foot beats will continue this summer.

Working together with the community to find solutions to crime has been a central part of Toupal’s career, he said, and he was honored in 2009 as the department’s Detective of the Year for similar work in the North End. He said he wants to bring that community-oriented, problem-solving approach to policing St. Paul as a whole.

If he becomes chief, Toupal said he would also ensure “training is in line with community values.”

“The world is changing, and because of that, we have to take a look at how we do business … and we also need to make sure our officers are safe on the street,” Toupal said.

Toupal grew up in White Bear Lake and was initially in school to become a biomedical technician. But his baseball coach, who was a White Bear Lake police officer, convinced Toupal to go on a ride-along with him. “I honestly felt my calling,” Toupal said, and he shifted course to become a police officer.

Cassandra Carter, Arlington Hills Community Center’s library customer service liaison, came to know Toupal when he worked on the East Side. When the community center reopened in 2014, Carter said she was initially angry about the way she saw officers treating teenagers and she thought they were targeting them.

But Carter said Toupal was willing to have “hard conversations” with her, and “he wanted there to be trust.” She saw that happening by Toupal having officers spend time at Arlington Hills to get to know people, not just responding to calls.

Carter believes her experience with Toupal is what people would see if he’s named chief. “He listens, he’s down to earth and in touch with people, so he knows the real issues,” she said.

IF YOU GO

The city is hosting two police chief candidate forums, in which the five finalists will respond to community-submitted questions. People can submit questions at the meeting and, because all finalists will answer each question, it is expected that eight questions will be covered.

When: Wednesday and Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Where: Wednesday at Concordia University’s E.M. Pearson Theatre, 312 N. Hamline Ave. Thursday at Progressive Baptist Church, 1505 Burns Ave.

Feedback to the mayor about the finalists can be sent to nextchief@ci.stpaul.mn.us.

CHISAGO LAKES TOWNSHIP, Minn. — SWAT team officers were called to a house in Chisago County by homeowners who said a man had entered their residence and fired gunshots.

Sheriff’s officials say the husband and wife locked themselves in a bedroom Monday night after the armed man fired three rounds in the kitchen, then went into a laundry room. The husband told dispatchers the gunman said people were chasing him and were crawling through the windows.

Authorities say the husband used a fire escape ladder to get out of the house, but his wife was unable to do so.

Tactical officers surrounded the home while a deputy negotiated with the gunman. The man eventually climbed out of the laundry room window and was arrested.

He was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation.

The homeowners weren’t injured.