n Miranda Joy Douvier, 19, of Willmar, pleaded guilty Thursday to an amended plea of second-degree burglary.
As part of a plea agreement, the charge was reduced from first-degree burglary and another felony burglary charge and a misdemeanor for fifth-degree assault will be dismissed.
The charges were filed after Willmar Police were called on Nov. 2 to an apartment along the 1200 block of 24th Street Northwest. The people there said that Douvier, two other females and one male entered an apartment and that Douvier's ex-boyfriend was there with a woman described as the ex-girlfriend of Douvier's male companion.
The complaint charges that Douvier struck the woman who was with her ex-boyfriend, and that the male who accompanied her into the apartment struck her ex-boyfriend. Douvier and the others also were responsible for damage in the apartment, ranging from ripping apart the door of a bedroom, smashing dinner plates and wrecking the top of a coffee table, according to the allegations in the complaint.
She will be sentenced July 14.
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- Michele Suzette Belton, 36, of Willmar made her first appearance Thursday on a felony charge of malicious punishment of a child.
She was released on her personal recognizance and ordered to have no contact with the child and to comply with the order for protection filed against her on behalf of the child.
According to the complaint, a Willmar Police detective received a report from Kandiyohi County Family Services on April 15 indicating that Belton had squeezed her two-year-old son's arm hard enough to cause severe bruising. Later that same day, the detective and a social worker met with Belton, who said she got angry, grabbed the boy by the upper arm and said she was "rough" with him. She admitted to previously harming the boy and said "I'm not proud of this, I know what I've done is wrong." She said she had been through anger management classes and was grateful the incident was reported because she knew it was in the best interest of her children. She confirmed that the bruise was in the form of handprint.
Further investigation by police indicated that the biological father of the boy and a three-year old child had received an order for protection on behalf of the children against Belton. The OFP noted several incidents over the past 16 months including bruises on the boy after a visit with Belton, that she bathed the child in ice cold water and then put him in scalding hot water, slapping the other child so hard that Belton fell down and that Belton stabbed the boy with a fake fingernail and hit him.
Continued investigation revealed that Belton had left a voice mail for a social worker admitting to grabbing the son so hard it left marks on his arm and indicating she was willing to do whatever she needed to do to get help.
Belton's next appearance is May 27.
- Nancy Orvelia Zometa, 20, of Willmar, made her first appearance Thursday on two felony charges for offering a forged check and theft by swindle.
She was released on her personal recognizance.
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According to the complaint, a Willmar Police detective was contacted by a US Bank fraud investigator on April 18 regarding an investigation into three Discover card checks that had been forged on account of a woman for $5,800. The checks had been written to three different people in December and January. The investigator had revealed that Zometa, a bank employee, had done the forgery. In an interview, she admitted to forging the woman's name and the names of each of the payees. She said she didn't know any of them, and had picked names as they approached her in her window to cash checks. She also knew they had enough money in their account to cover the forged checks. Zometa said she took the money and spent it and that she got the checks when they were mistakenly mailed to her apartment.
Zometa's next appearance is May 27.
- Nelson Diaz-Hernandez, 40, of Willmar, was arraigned Friday on felony charges of aggravated forgery and forgery.
Unconditional bail was set at $50,000 with conditional release at $10,000.
According to the complaint, Willmar Police received a report from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on May 7 that Jenny Maldonado-Arriaga was living along the 1200 block of Litchfield Avenue Southwest.
The next day, police went to the address around 5:15 p.m. to locate Maldonado-Arriaga. Nelson answered the door and said she wasn't there and that he didn't know who she was after being shown a photo. He also said he didn't know why she listed the address to immigration officials. He did not allow police to search the apartment and wouldn't identify himself and was arrested.
Police searched the state database for information, using the license plates of a vehicle parked at the home. They found the car registered to a Carlos Jose Santos and determined that Diaz-Hernandez's photo appeared on the ID issued in the Santos name.
The next day, ICE agents informed local police that Nelson was Maldonado-Arriaga's husband and that he was using the stolen Santos identity to work. Police also received information that Diaz-Hernandez had applied for a Minnesota driver's license and ID card in July 2005 using a Puerto Rican birth certificate.
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His next appearance is May 27.
