Crime, Law and Justice

Alleged cash courier pleads not guilty to bribing Feeding Our Future juror
A woman accused of trying to bribe a juror at the recent Feeding Our Future trial entered not guilty pleas to multiple felony charges. Ladan Mohamed Ali made her first appearance before Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko in St. Paul on Thursday.
New Feeding Our Future charges: Prosecutors say 5 tried to bribe juror with $120K
Hoping to corrupt the recent trial, the alleged conspirators targeted the woman known as juror 52 because they believed her to be the youngest on the jury and the only person of color, but “juror 52 could not be bought,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said Wednesday.
These best boys and girls just graduated from the ATF’s National Canine Academy
Meet the dogs who just finished the ATF’s canine training program. ATF dogs have supported major events like the Super Bowl and are also used in the bread-and-butter of ATF’s work: solving gun crimes.
Charges filed after body found in back of car following crash near Rochester
An Iowa woman was charged Tuesday with a felony count of concealing a dead body, after deputies responding to a car crash in southeast Minnesota last weekend found a woman deceased in the vehicle from injuries not suffered in the crash.
Reform, accountability become tug toy in proposed Minneapolis Police contract
Labor attorney Jim Michels, who represents the Minneapolis Police Federation and more than 40 other unions, says trying to squeeze police reform and accountability into a labor agreement is, in essence, impossible — or at least improbable.