A 38-year-old Redmond, Wash., man was slumped over the wheel of a running car at a Stearns County stop sign with his foot on the brake when an officer knocked on the window on Nov. 4, according to the complaint.
A 36-year-old Minnesota state representative was arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired Wednesday night after he drove into a legally parked vehicle in Saint Cloud, according to police and KNSI.
A 23-year-old Wabasso man ran into a house and slammed the door on a Redwood County sheriff's sergeant after a chase of about a mile at speeds near 70 mph, according to the complaint.
A 32-year-old Fairmont woman told a deputy she had a firearm permit and a firearm in her purse while he waited for a K-9 unit to arrive at a Nov. 2 traffic stop in Winnebago, according to the complaint.
A bus driver told law enforcement he kept a bench between himself and a Minneapolis man who had followed him off the bus and had been threatening to kill him, according to a complaint.
A 35-year-old Saint Cloud woman treated for burns on her foot and arms gave a paramedic an account similar to what others at her home told police: that she set a man's van on fire with gasoline because she was angry with him, according to the complaint.
A 39-year-old Cass Lake man kept shifting and fidgeting behind the wheel and was perspiring heavily despite an outside temperature of about 42 degrees before he told officers that foil found on him held fentanyl, according to the complaint.
A 39-year-old Saint Paul man told security guards at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina that he was not going to get up from an unlocked bathroom stall. He told them to call the police, according to the complaint. One of the guards did.
An 18-year-old Minneapolis man led Bloomington officers through stop signs and over sidewalks and the wrong way down a one-way street, switching off all of the vehicle's lights in the dark to evade them, according to the complaint.
A 40-year-old Bagley woman stopped for a headlight that was out threw a lit cigarette at a Clearwater County deputy and hit him in the chest, according to the complaint.
A 42-year-old Chaska man took a tow truck driver's phone after the driver told him he was going to call the police, then kept it for several minutes, according to the complaint.
A Coleraine police officer chased a truck for about 1.5 miles through Grand Rapids on Oct. 30 with red and blue lights, siren, air horn and high beams going while the driver held to the 40 mph speed limit, slowed for one red light and stopped at another, according to a complaint.
A Brooklyn Park man told deputies he did not know who the southeast bedroom belonged to, the room where most of the 191 grams of cocaine in the residence was found, according to a Hennepin County complaint.
A hotel employee in Monticello who followed a guest outside to ask him to delete a photograph ended up with pepper spray in his face on Nov. 5, according to a Wright County complaint.
A man who told Winona police he could not recall what the argument was about ended up with a fracture in the floor of his left eye socket, a broken nose and a cut cheek after two men confronted him on a sidewalk on Sept. 13, according to a criminal complaint. A 23-year-old Cottage Grove man is charged with felony assault.
Deputies who reached a burning house in Crow River Township before dawn on Nov. 7 found a sign at the end of the driveway that read "armed and dangerous," according to the complaint. A 38-year-old Belgrade man who was the home's only occupant is charged with arson.
A woman on the line with 911 could be heard saying "Give me my phone" before the call cut off on Sept. 19, according to a Hennepin County complaint. A 24-year-old Minneapolis man is charged with burglary in the break-in at her apartment.
A 22-year-old Minneapolis man in a "Michael Myers" costume held a knife to a Halloween party host's throat in Saint Paul on Oct. 30, according to the complaint. The host told police he was not frightened because he believed the knife was a prop. When he pushed the man away, the man swung the knife toward him and cut his hand.
