South Metro Crime Report

Police Concerned About Increase in Mental Health Calls

Sexual assaults, brazen theft and aggravated robbery also reported around the region last week.

  The following stories first appeared during the past week on Patch sites in Dakota, Rice and Scott counties. To read the full articles, click on the headline links.   St. Paul Man Charged with Impregnating 14-Year-Old Rosemount Girl James Lee Whitner III is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct after police say he had sex with the victim twice in August. Man Charged with Brazen Theft of Trailer from Rosemount Man Police say Dale Michael Bale drove onto the victim's property, hitched his trailer to a pickup truck and drove away with it. 2 Apple Valley Men Charged with Aggravated Robbery Police say Jason Michael Milligan and Garrett Jackson Nash were involved in robbing an Apple Valley woman of a purse.   Burnsville Woman …

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2 Apple Valley Men Charged with Aggravated Robbery

Police say Jason Michael Milligan and Garrett Jackson Nash were involved in robbing an Apple Valley woman of a purse.

  Two Apple Valley men have been charged with helping to steal a woman’s purse at a home in Apple Valley after an unidentified accomplice pulled a gun on a couple and threatened to shoot them. Jason Michael Milligan, 26, and Garrett Jackson Nash, 18, are each charged with aggravated first-degree robbery, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $35,000 fine. The charge has a mandatory minimum penalty of three years in prison and a $10,500 fine.    According to the criminal complaints, Apple Valley police were called to a home on Genesee Way just before 10:30 p.m. Oct. 25 after someone reported a stolen purse. Police spoke with the victim and a man with her, who said he had made arrangements earlier in the evening with a …

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