On 9/20/25 at about 0021 hours, a St. Anthony Police Officer saw a 2008 CF Moto V5 Cruiser motorcycle driving at a high rate of speed and swerving through traffic as it traveled eastbound on Larpenteur Ave at Cleveland Ave in Falcon Heights, Ramsey County. The officer caught up with the motorcycle as it turned south on Snelling Ave and saw that it did not have a license plate displayed on the back. Auto thieves commonly remove license plates in order to thwart law enforcement efforts to identify it.
At Hoyt, the officer initiated a traffic stop by activating the squad’s emergency lights and sirens. The driver, later identified as Marcus Juvon COLLINS ([DOB REDACTED]), looked back at the officer but did not stop. Instead, COLLINS accelerated and entered the wrong way of traffic on Snelling Ave; swerving as he drove southbound in the northbound lanes. The Officer terminated the pursuit for safety reasons but continued driving south on Snelling and found the motorcycle crashed into a pole at Midway Parkway.
COLLINS was then seen fleeing the scene on foot. A perimeter was established and, with the assistance of a K9 unit, COLLINS was found hiding inside a shed at [ADDRESS REDACTED] in St. Paul, Ramsey County. Once his locatation was detected, COLLINS fled on foot a second time. After running and jumping over fences, and jumping from the rooftop of one house to the rooftop of another, COLLINS was captured at [ADDRESS REDACTED]. When he was being arrested, COLLINS threw a padlock, which police later determined came from the door of the shed COLLINS had been hiding in.
After being Mirandized, COLLINS admitted that he fled from police and said he "bought the motorcycle yesterday from a Hispanic guy and paid a couple hundred dollars for it. COLLINS Driver’s License status was revoked. The value of the motorcycle far exceeded “a couple hundred dollars.” When Police checked, they discovered that the motorcycle’s VIN had been partially removed. Auto thieves commonly tamper with a vehicle’s VIN in order to thwart law enforcement efforts to identify it. Police, however, were able to contact the motorcycle’s registered owner, HL, and learned that it was an unreported stolen.
According to HL, said she did not know it had been stolen and last saw it on 09/19/2025.
