Crime & Safety

Deputies Arrest Predatory Offender with Ties to Rosemount

Aaron Ramon McCauley, a convicted predatory offender, told police earlier this year that he planned to live in Rosemount, but then disappeared.

A convicted predatory offender who told authorities he planned to live in Rosemount until his girlfriend “kicked him out” was arrested Monday by Dakota County sheriff’s deputies.

A earlier this month for Aaron Ramon McCauley, 40, who is charged with failing to provide notice of a change of address as a predatory offender. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.    

According to the criminal complaint, McCauley was convicted of kidnapping in Dakota County in 1996 and making terroristic threats in Rice County in 2001. As required by law, he began registering as a predatory offender in 2003, when he was released from prison in Stillwater. 

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On June 29, McCauley notified authorities that he would be moving out of Woodbury and would be living at a home on 137th Street West in Rosemount as of July 10.

Rosemount police contacted the homeowner on July 27. The woman told officers that she and McCauley had been dating, but he had never moved into her home and that their relationship had ended.

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McCauley contacted Rosemount police by phone on July 28 and said he had been homeless for several days because he had been “kicked out.” He told police that he had notified the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) that he was homeless, but BCA officials said they hadn’t heard from him.

McCauley remained in the Dakota County Jail Monday.


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