Friday, January 11, 2013
Police say Brenda Lynn Heinen kicked an officer in the leg when she was arrested for drunken driving on her 41st birthday.
A Rosemount woman has been charged with threatening and kicking a police officer after she was arrested for drunken driving on her birthday. Brenda Lynn Heinen, 41, is charged with fourth-degree assault of a peace officer, a felony with a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $6,000 fine. She is also charged with two gross misdemeanor counts of second-degree DWI, each of which has a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $3,000 fine. A driver in the area of County Road 42 and Highway 3 reported to police at about 10 p.m. Dec. 16 – Heinen’s 41st birthday – that there was a driver in the area who was “all over the road,” according to the criminal complaint. As an officer approached the area, he spotted a minivan westbound on …
Friday, November 4, 2011
Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom's office this week charged five Apple Valley residents with felonies.
Dozens of Dakota County residents—including five from Apple Valley—were charged this week with voting illegally in the 2008 general election, just days before the statute of limitations expired. The 49 people charged were among 282 complaints registered with Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom’s office in the wake of the controversial and hard-fought 2008 election, which spurred a months-long recount in the U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, who was eventually declared the winner. “Until the 2008 election, we’d only gotten a handful of these referrals every election year,” Backstrom said this week. “It was quite unusual to receive almost 300 in one election cycle.” The three-year statute …
Monday, September 19, 2011
Mike Yeng Vang is accused of possessing and sharing images of children as young as 8 when he lived in Apple Valley.
A Farmington man has been charged with possession of child pornography when he was an Apple Valley resident, after authorities say they seized images from his computer of children as young as 8 in sexual situations. Mike Yeng Vang, 22, faces eight counts of possession of child pornography, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Vang remained in the Dakota County Jail this weekend on a $30,000 bond after being arrested Friday on a warrant. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled for Sept. 26 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings. According to the criminal complaint, Apple Valley police received information last January from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s Internet …
Saturday, September 3, 2011
A warrant has been issued for Gilbert Edward Gage, whom police say tried to rape a woman in the parking lot of an Apple Valley bar in April.
A warrant has been issued for a Rosemount man charged with attempted rape, after an April incident in which police say he threatened to rape a woman in the parking lot of an Apple Valley bar. Gilbert Edward Gage, 49, faces a felony charge of fourth-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct, which carries a maximum penalty of two and a half years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Police nationwide have been asked to look for him. According to the criminal complaint, Gage was at an Apple Valley bar in early April with a woman who told police that they argued after she refused to move out of state with him. The woman said she left the bar after Gage, but when she got to the parking lot, she spotted him sitting in his car, according to the complaint…
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Police arrested Amy Janette Johnson on Friday on a warrant after she failed to appear at a court hearing earlier this month.
A Lakeville woman was arrested Friday on a warrant accusing her of swindling her former housekeeper out of more than $800,000. Amy Janette Johnson, 43, faces a charge of felony theft by swindle, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $100,000 fine, and a felony charge of identity theft, which has a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. A warrant for Johnson’s arrest was issued Aug. 1 after she failed to appear at a court hearing. She was arrested in Hastings, appeared in court Friday and was once again released on her promise to make all future court appearances. According to the criminal complaint against her, Johnson’s former housekeeper and nanny—who lived in Apple Valley or Rosemount when the …
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Dwight McGriff faces a felony charge of domestic assault.
An Apple Valley man has been charged with domestic assault after police say he punched a woman in the back of the neck at a Burnsville bar last weekend. Dwight McGriff, 30, faces a felony charge of domestic assault, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He was arrested Friday and remained in the Dakota County Jail Wednesday on a $65,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled Aug. 29 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings. According to the criminal complaint, Burnsville police were called to a bar in the 14000 block of Irving Avenue South in Burnsville early Friday to investigate a reported assault. The woman told police that she was at the bar with McGriff that evening when he …
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Leonard Warfield is charged with domestic assault and making terroristic threats.
A Minneapolis man has been charged with domestic assault and making terroristic threats after police say he threatened to slit a woman's throat if she called police to report their alleged violent argument in Apple Valley last week. Leonard Warfield, 55, faces a felony charge of making terroristic threats, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He also faces two charges of misdemeanor domestic assault, which have maximum penalties of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. According to the criminal complaint, Apple Valley police were called to an apartment complex in the 7400 block of 123rd Street Thursday on a report of a man and woman fighting in the building’s second-floor hallway. A witness told police …
Monday, June 27, 2011
A nationwide warrant has been issued for Christopher David Laatsch, who is charged with stalking, harassing and making terroristic threats against a 15-year-old boy.
A nationwide warrant has been issued for an Apple Valley man accused of repeatedly harassing and terrorizing a 15-year-old Rosemount boy. Christopher David Laatsch, 22, is charged with one felony count of stalking and harassment, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, and two felony counts of making terroristic threats, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Laatsch also is charged with fifth-degree assault and domestic assault, each misdemeanors with a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. According to the complaint, filed in Dakota County District Court in Hastings, Rosemount police received a report in February of repeated assaults lasting …
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Jarrod Clinton Durbin was charged in Dakota County Court with a fifth-degree controlled substance crime, which is a felony.
An Apple Valley man is charged with heroin possession after police found a syringe on his person that crime lab tests showed had heroin on it. Jarrod Clinton Durbin, 30, was charged in Dakota County Court with a fifth-degree controlled substance crime, which is a felony. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to the Dakota County criminal complaint against Durbin. According to the complaint, Eagan police approached Durbin in a business parking lot on June 16 after receiving reports that he was allegedly soliciting people for money that day, and had also done so on a previous occasion. Durbin allegedly told police he was selling magazines, the complaint says. When police found that Durbin …
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Gerald Lee Dettman, 39, is charged with two felonies in Hennepin County.
An Apple Valley man faces two felony charges after he allegedly stole a car and tried to flee police in it, driving through a South Minneapolis church lawn before he was stopped. Gerald Lee Dettman, 39, was charged in Hennepin County Court with theft of a motor vehicle and fleeing an officer in a motor vehicle, according to a criminal complaint against him. He’s in custody at Hennepin County Jail, with bail set at $50,000. On April 26, Minneapolis police responded to a report that a suspicious vehicle was parked outside a Minneapolis residence, according to the complaint. Police found the car was stolen, and DNA from cigarette butts in the car matched Dettman’s, the complaint says. On May 25, police received information that Dettman was …
