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RAMSEY COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office reported the following incidents:
North Oaks • Someone has his number. A 32-year-old Robb Farm Road resident reported nine charges on his credit card at the Vadnais Heights Target store on Christmas Eve, none of them by the victim, who still has his credit card in his possession. An investigation is underway.
Shoreview • A male client at a Cannon Avenue group home punched another male client in the face the afternoon of Dec. 13, then hit the 23-year-old with an unknown weapon. The 34-year-old suspect then stabbed a 22-year-old client in the shoulder and hand with a cheese knife before being subdued by staff. The suspect was jailed on two counts of felony assault with a dangerous weapon. • A victim reported the theft of his credit cards the afternoon of Dec. 13 and that the thief had racked up charges at Mall of America stores in excess of $14,000. An investigation of the felony crime continues. • A 16-year-old male hurled profanities at a female instructor the morning of Dec. 13 at Reach Academy in the 3400 block of Lexington Avenue and refused to leave the classroom. He was escorted out by the school resource officer on a pending charge of disorderly conduct and enrolled in a diversion program at Northeast Youth and Family Services. • Squads and medics responded to a 911 call regarding a serious industrial accident Dec. 14 in the 1000 block of Gramsie Road, where a 33-year-old construction worker suffered a severe laceration to his right hand. The incident occurred when a hopper fi lled with fresh concrete
slipped its moorings, pinning the man to the wall of an apartment building under construction. The injury was so severe the man’s hand had to be amputated. A report of the incident was forwarded to OSHA. • A 37-year-old local woman fell victim to a “car wrapping” scam Dec. 14. After several meetings to set her up, she received a check for $2,900 and was told to keep $900 for herself and to send a check for $2,000 to an outfit that would install the wrapping. The $2,000 check she wrote was good; the $2,900 check she received was not. (“Car wrapping” is when your vehicle is “wrapped” with product or service identification so you drive around town posing as a traveling billboard.) • Staff and students alike witnessed a 15-year-old boy urinating on a school building the afternoon of Dec. 15 at Reach Academy. The youth faces a pending charge of disorderly conduct. • Management at the Shoreview Community Center “trespassed” three juvenile females Dec. 15 from the facility for one year after they were caught hiding under a set of stairs until closing time with alcohol in their possession. • A 39-year-old local man was charged with careless driving after he spun out on ice-covered Park Overlook Drive in the pre-dawn hours of Dec. 16, taking out a mailbox and a carbon fiber streetlight. • A 26-year-old local man accessed his debit account online the morning of Dec. 19 to fi nd a dozen charges he had not made. The fast-food loving suspects only ceased when their request for funds came up empty. Charges totaling $835 were made for hats, sporting equipment and fast food, including 10 transactions at a Florida McDonald’s. • A 44-year-old Royal Oaks Drive resident was alerted by his bank to four transactions on his
CHRISTMAS GIFT: Family gets a lift FROM PAGE 1
She offered to pay for half the cost to fi x the van, said her former employer, General Manager Richard Herod III. When Herod heard the story of the family falling on hard times but helping others, he decided the dealership could give the family a bigger Christmas gift than half a fi x. “I couldn’t help but be moved,” he said.
After looking at the van, the dealership decided it would be better to gift the family a used van than fi x the broken down van with nearly 300,000 miles on it, he said. The dealership had just received some fresh trade-ins in much better condition. “It was just one of those deals where you can’t hear the story and not want to help,” Herod said. The dealership reconditioned the used van for free and employees fi lled it with gifts.
“What really impressed me was our employees — they started donating their holiday bonuses,” Herod said. Over $1,000 in holiday bonuses were donated to the family. They also fi lled the van with a TV, Playstation and food. Moody picked up Greer and Montgomery Dec. 22 to drive them to White Bear Lake to pick up their new van. Moody said it has been hard for Montgomery to speak as she has been in tears over the generosity.
charge card that took place between Dec. 2 and Dec. 4 totaling $244 — three in California and one in Florida. The type of card — debit or credit — was not reported. • A man parked his truck in the 3000 block of Rustic Place the evening of Dec. 21, leaving it unlocked. When he returned hours later, the truck had been ransacked. Missing were a phone charger, a bottle of unidentified narcotic painkillers and a Bluetooth adapter. • When a drug user out of Woodbury began to have reactions on Hodgson Road Dec. 23, his pregnant 22-year-old girlfriend called 911 and the man was hospitalized. After he was released, the upset 24-year-old came home and maced the girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter. Mom called 911 again and the drug user, who has a criminal record, was jailed — charged with possession of mace and use of mace against a person — both felonies. Bail was set at $15,000. • Deputies responded to a Dec. 26 call on Knight Street regarding an “out-of-control” female, who was living with Dad because she had been “kicked out” of her place for behavior issues. This time she punched Dad’s wife in the face and ripped the cord out of the wall when her stepmother attempted to call 911. Facing the deputies, the 26-year-old suspect grabbed two stove burner grates in a threatening manner, yelling, “I’m not going to jail!” Deputies intervened and the suspect set the grates down. Next, deputies took the woman to the ground, where she kicked one deputy in the face. Still combative, the suspect was immobilized with a stun gun and arrested on charges of domestic assault, 911 call interference, fourth-degree assault on a police officer and grossmisdemeanor obstructing the legal process with force. She was jailed with bail set at $6,000.
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Keichaun Greer and Neveia Montgomery, of Minneapolis, were gifted a used van from White Bear Mitsubishi after a community connection was made when their van broke down by the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office in Arden Hills in December.