Assault

ST. PAUL -- Downtown is safe, St. Paul police assured people Friday as they announced an arrest in a recent skyway assault that left a 59-year-old man with a broken wrist and a 23-year-old man with a bloodied face. People who live and work downtown expressed a range of thoughts...

KETTLE RIVER, Minn. -- A Kettle River man is facing felony assault charges after allegedly attempting to ram his ex-girlfriend’s vehicle or run her off the road last fall. John Philip Mikrot, 45, was picked up on a warrant and charged with assault in the second degree...

WILLMAR — A 24-year-old Willmar man pleaded not guilty Friday to charges resulting from an October incident in which he allegedly aided in an assault in Willmar that left a victim with a broken nose, sinus fracture and stitches. Joel Filiberto Medellin waived an omnibus hearing...

WILLMAR -- Willmar police have arrested one suspect and expect to make more arrests tied to an alleged aggravated robbery reported Saturday afternoon in the 400 block of Ann Street Southeast. Officers were dispatched to the scene around 4 p.m. on the report that someone had...

WILLMAR -- A man alleged to have aided in an assault in Willmar that left a victim with a broken nose, sinus fracture and stitches was arrested on a warrant Tuesday and made his first court appearance Wednesday. Joel Filiberto Medellin, 24, faces felony charges of...

MONTEVIDEO — A 36-year-old Montevideo man faces burglary and assault charges for allegedly breaking into a Montevideo residence while a man and woman slept and assaulting them. Kelly Lee Trotter appeared Sept. 30 in Chippewa County District Court for a bail hearing on two charges...

WILLMAR - The action at Willmar High School’s Homecoming football game Friday night wasn't just confined to the field. An 18-year-old spectator in the student section of the bleachers landed in jail after allegedly causing a disturbance, reportedly engaging in obnoxious behavior...

ST. PAUL — A woman who says a priest assaulted her in Bemidji about 45 years ago has sued the Crookston Catholic diocese. Linda Carroll said on Wednesday that the Rev. James Porter assaulted her at St. Philip’s school in Bemidji when she was in second grade. Her lawsuit says...

WILLMAR — Jasmine Raye Elizondo, 20, of Willmar, made a first appearance Monday in Kandiyohi County District Court on charges of felony fifth-degree assault, felony fifth-degree drug sale and two counts of felony second-degree drug sale. The charges stemmed from two separate incidents...

GRANITE FALLS — The 30-year-old Clarkfield man who was involved in a high-speed chase with law enforcement earlier this month in Clarkfield made his first appearance in court Monday on a number of charges. Matthew James Nelson faces Yellow Medicine County charges of felony assault...

ST. PAUL — The man killed in a shooting Wednesday night in Gilchrist Township in Pope County has been identified as 25-year-old Anthony Ray Tullis. The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Anoka County found that he died of a gunshot wound, according to a news release from the...

LITCHFIELD — A Grove City man pleaded guilty Monday to a majority of the charges filed against him in a road-rage incident last fall when he chased and attacked two people with his truck and with a nail-studded board along U.S. Highway 12. William Richard Dugan, 58, pleaded guilty...

WILLMAR — Cody Lee Friese, 24, of Kandiyohi, was sentenced Tuesday to 13 months in prison, which was stayed, three years of probation, 190 days in jail and $2,500 in fines on two felony charges related to assaulting three Willmar police officers in December. As part of his sentence...

WILLMAR — Philomene Rose Skinaway, 20, of Bemidji and formerly of Willmar, pleaded guilty Monday to a third-degree assault charge for her role in beating a woman and then stealing her cell phone in October. As part of a plea agreement reached in Kandiyohi County District Court,...