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Patrol Districts
PATROL DIVISION
2011 Patrol Highlights
January 2011: Officers responded to a call of an order for protection violation and when they located the suspect, he refused to comply with officers directions. Officers were able to talk with the suspect and convince him to comply without a fight. The suspect was taken into custody and charged with violating an order for protection. (OW11-000047)
February 2011: Officer Tom Murphy retired from the Owatonna Police Department after serving for over twenty-five years.
March 2011: Jeff Mundale was promoted to the rank of Captain and oversees the patrol division. Officer Brady Fox joined the department on March 22, 2011 and Officer Matt Oeltjenbruns was hired on March 23, 2011.
April 2011: Officers responded to a report of a burglary in which juveniles stole items from a home while the owners were out of town over the Spring Break weekend. The owners had left a back door unlocked and asked a family friend to watch the home and take care of the dog while they were away. Apparently, the family friend allowed juveniles to hang out at the house and when the family friend left the home for a few hours, the juveniles returned and stole several items. (OW11-000756)
May 2011: An Owatonna officer stopped a vehicle for having an obstructed windshield. When the officer made contact with the female driver and female passenger, he detected an odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle; he was told they were coming from a house where they had just smoked marijuana and that there was a marijuana pipe in the vehicle. The officer searched the vehicle and located a large quantity of ecstasy and psilocybin mushrooms, both schedule I drugs. Both the driver and the passenger were charged with drug related crimes. (OW11-001124)


June 2011: Officer Christian Berg joined the patrol division. An Owatonna officer attempted to make a traffic stop, but the driver refused to pull over. Once the vehicle stopped, the driver would not comply with the officer’s directions and as a result, the officer used his Taser to gain control of the driver. (OW11-001299)
