Mousetrap Prank Leaves Woodbury Man’s Brother in Stitches

A Woodbury man faces a felony assault charge stemming from the Jan. 13 incident.

After being startled by a mousetrap his brother set in an effort to play a prank, a Woodbury man allegedly began punching his sibling in the head and now faces a felony assault charge. Matthew Joseph Nelson, 23, was the apparent victim of the Jan. 13 prank that sparked the altercation and left his brother needing four stitches to close a cut on his lip. According to the criminal complaint: Woodbury police were called to a home at the 2300 block of Cascade Plaza South on a report of a domestic assault between brothers. They had been helping their mother set mousetraps. Nelson’s mother and brother were teasing him about setting a mousetrap in his bed, and he later decided to leave. When he went downstairs to his room to get his keys, he …

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