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Thursday, April 27, 2023
Former Minneapolis police officer Brian Cummings pled guilty to criminal vehicular homicide
Friday, April 14, 2023
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office has charged four individuals in cases connected to an April 11, 2023, shooting in Brooklyn Park that injured three.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Statement of the County Attorney on Attorney General decision to take cases
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the dangerous driving conduct observed by street racers during “takeover” events could be prosecuted as second-degree riot.
Monday, April 3, 2023
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced that today Desean James Solomon, 32, of Richfield, was sentenced to 438 months in prison after being convicted of murder in a drive-by shooting in a busy area of north Minneapolis on June 14, 2020
A Hennepin County jury convicted James Andrew Works in the first trial to come from the joint partnership of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, Minneapolis Police Department, Sexual Violence Center, and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension aimed at solving old sexual assault cases.