Thursday, April 18, 2013
James Howard Smith initially blamed the thefts on “Green Eyes,” an individual police learned was in custody at the time of the theft.
A Woodbury man was recently sentenced on a burglary conviction after he stole several items from New Life Church and Academy in August 2011. James Howard Smith, 30, had a 21-month prison sentence stayed and was placed on probation for five years on the grounds that he remain law abiding and have no contact with the institution, among other conditions. Woodbury police the evening of Aug. 19, 2011, were dispatched to New Life Church and Academy on a report that someone was inside the building. Officers searched the complex and made contact with an employee, who told them he saw a man inside the school who ran away. On Aug. 22, a school official contacted police about several missing items, electronics valued at nearly $3,000 total, according…
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
He used a plastic bag and mini bat to choke the woman, and told her to “just let go and die” twice during separate incidents in September 2012, according to the complaint.
A Woodbury man was recently sentenced after he beat up, choked and threatened to kill his ex-wife during separate September 2012 incidents. Joe Louis Johnson, 29, was sentenced to 45 months in prison on an assault charge and 14 months in prison on a domestic assault conviction, both of which will run concurrent with time he is already serving. On Sept. 23, 2012, Woodbury police were contacted on a report that a man had assaulted his ex-wife on Sept. 19 and Sept. 21 that year. The woman had injuries on her face and neck and had severe swelling on one side of her face, along with a bruised left eye and blood around her pupil, according to the criminal complaint. The woman reported that Johnson became angry about what she had been doing …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Brian James Mehlhorn was sentenced in early March following incidents in Woodbury and Oakdale.
An Oakdale man was sentenced earlier this month following convictions on two burglaries and one car theft. Brian James Mehlhorn, 30, who has a lengthy rap sheet according to state records, was sentenced to nearly two years in prison, with credit for 156 days served, following his convictions for: Mehlhorn must also pay nearly $20,000 in combined in restitution to the victims. He is also a suspect in other cases. According to the criminal complaints: Woodbury burglary Woodbury police were called in December 2011 on a report that an unattached garage at an apartment complex at the 6700 block of Ashwood Road had been burglarized, and tires and rims (valued at $2,424) and a $330 bicycle had been stolen. Swabs from a crowbar found at the scene …
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Anthony Neil Sweet, 51, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.
A Woodbury has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison following his conviction for sexually assaulting two girls. Anthony Neil Sweet, 51, who was given credit for 157 days served, must register as a sex offender and submit a DNA sample to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. In September 2012 police were called about a possible sexual assault, and subsequent interviews with two girls revealed further accusations against Sweet. One of the girls told officers he had been sexually assaulting her since she was 5 years old. Sweet later admitted to the assaults and to taking sexually explicit photos of one of the girls, according to the criminal complaint. He was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Like Patch on …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Jon Timothy Almquist was given seven years of probation.
A Woodbury man who was arrested in March 2012 on suspicion of his fifth DWI since 2002 was recently sentenced to seven years of probation. A 3.5-year prison sentence was stayed on the grounds that Jon Timothy Almquist, 39, remain law abiding, complete a repeat-offender program and submit to random testing, among other conditions of his release. Almquist was arrested during the early morning hours of March 8, 2012, after employees at SuperAmerica called police about a customer who was slurring his speech and stumbling in the parking lot, according to the criminal complaint. He was in the gas station’s carwash when an officer arrived. After Almquist left the carwash, the officer noted that he failed to signal a turn at Guider Drive. He was …
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
St. Paul resident Brian Thomas McCarthy, 25, was arrested in Woodbury in December 2010.
The St. Paul man convicted of felony burglary charges stemming from a series of break-ins in Woodbury was recently sentenced in Washington County District Court. Brian Thomas McCarthy, 25, was sentenced to more than 17 months in custody and nearly nine months of supervised release following the burglary conviction. He was arrested in Woodbury on Dec. 22, 2011, and was suspected of breaking into a detached garage in Woodbury and vehicles in Woodbury, Oakdale, Maplewood, Newport and St. Paul. He was also wanted in Chisago County. According to the criminal complaint: A little after 7 a.m. on Dec. 22, police were dispatched to the 6800 block of Glen Road after a resident spotted a man she didn’t recognize in her driveway. The man saw her and …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Darnell Watson, 45, and two others pleaded guilty to drug charges following their June 2010 arrest in Woodbury.
A Chicago man arrested in Woodbury in June 2010 was sentenced in federal court Monday after conspiring to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin in the Twin Cities. Darnell Watson, 45, pleaded guilty on Nov. 2, 2011, and was sentenced to three and a half years of prison time on Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Minnesota district. Watson and two other were arrested in Woodbury on June 28, 2010, with 149 grams of heroin in their possession. The arrests brought their two-year operation to an end, the release says. In their respective plea agreements, the defendants admitted conspiring to distribute heroin and transport the drug from Chicago to the Twin Cities. On …
Kris Janisch
5:52 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
I always think that's a fine line, Linda, with evidentiary stuff. But I do think it's part of the story to lay out how the cops were justified in arresting someone. I have seen things in complaints about exactly how a thief did something—with a device or technique that didn't seem like common knowledge (like a crowbar)—and left it out of the story for that reason. more ›