While there are many sobering statistics coming out of the COVID-19 outbreak, one bright spot is the fact that DWIs are down significantly from this time last year. The Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety announced that arrests for driving while intoxicated are down nearly 70 percent from this time last year. Much of this is […]
How Minnesota Police Will Enforce The Stay At Home Order
As you’re probably aware, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued an executive order on Friday to compel people to stay at home with the hopes of stopping or slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The goal of the “Stay At Home” order is to help flatten the curve and help prevent hospitals from being overloaded with […]
Penalties For Violating “Stay At Home” Orders
Although Minnesota has yet to issue a statewide “stay at home” order, considering the Governor recently said that 40-80 percent of Minnesotans should expect to get the coronavirus, it seems likely that an order will be made in the not-so-distant future. Our neighbors to the east in Wisconsin already have a stay at home order […]
Low-Level Offenders Released Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
All inmates in Ramsey County who are serving time for low-level, nonviolent crimes will be released to a home electronic monitoring system in the wake of the spread of the coronavirus. The goal of release to home monitoring for low-level offenders is to reduce “the risk of infection among both (the Ramsey County Correctional Facility’s) staff […]
Forest Lake Man Earns Two DUIs In Five Hours
A 33-year-old man from Forest Lake earned two DUI charges in a matter of hours last week during a particularly rough Monday afternoon. Eric Wilson was booked into Stutsman County Corrections Center on a $750 bond for getting a second DUI in seven years. Although that’s what the charge officially reads, the time between DUIs […]
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