St. Cloud police are looking for information about a burglary reported Monday night in the city’s south side.
A resident called at 9:35 p.m. in the 1400 block of Sixth Avenue South. Someone cut through a screen to get into a bedroom window sometime between 4:45 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., police said.
The suspect stole a laptop and a book bag. The 35-year-old St. Cloud victim was asleep in a separate bedroom and was not harmed.
Coon Rapids police and the Anoka County sheriff's office are looking for a man accused of entering a Coon Rapids home and sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl.
Police were called to a home on the 11600 block of Unity Street at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday on a report of a sexual assault.
According to authorities, a man knocked on the front door and told the girl he was conducting a survey. He then began asking the girl who else was home.
The girl's teenage sibling was in another room asleep at the time. The man urged the girl not to wake her sibling and assaulted the girl. The 6-year-old began crying and the suspect fled on foot.
The suspect is described as a white male with light, short hair and a balding hairline. He also had an "orange" or red beard. Investigators say he was also wearing a black shirt, blue jeans and black shoes with white accents.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call investigators at 763-427-1212.
LAKE CRYSTAL, Minn. -- A family member has identified the body of a person found dead in a home in Lake Crystal early Tuesday morning after an apparent home invasion.
The victim has been identified as 26-year-old James Mervin Nibbe of Lake Crystal.
The Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office found a dead person after responding to a burglary call near Lake Crystal.
Authorities were called to the home, located at 51275 176th St., south of Lake Crystal, just before 6 a.m. Tuesday.
Blue Earth County authorities have declined to release more information, including whether anyone has been arrested. They say the incident appears to be isolated and it is believed that there is no threat to the public at large.
MANKATO, Minn. - A man who answered a knock on his apartment door in Mankato on Monday was knocked to the floor by several men and robbed.
Mankato police were called to the Highland Hills apartments around 9:22 p.m. on a report of a home invasion and robbery. According to police, the man heard a knock on his door, but the peephole was blocked when he tried to look out into the hallway.
The man opened his door and was pushed to the floor by three or four men who entered his apartment. A weapon was not shown, but was reference.
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - Maplewood police are looking for three men who were involved in a home invasion on Wednesday afternoon.
The home is located at 1741 Edgerton Avenue in Maplewood. A woman was in the home at the time of the incident around 4:30 p.m.
She was not hurt and police say this incident was not random. Two of the men were armed.
Police are asking residents in Marion Township to be more vigilant about locking their doors after two more burglaries were reported in the area Thursday morning.
According to Rochester police Lt. Casey Moilanen, between 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday, a house in the 1800 block of 36th Avenue Southeast was burglarized after the resident had left a garage door open overnight.
Moilanen said they believe the burglar went into the garage and entered the house through an unlocked door. A purse and briefcase were reported missing.
A gunman shot through the front window of an Eagan home Tuesday night, killing a husband and wife in their living room before turning the gun on himself.
Eagan police called the double murder-suicide one of the most brutal acts of violence in the city's history.
