On November 27, 2025, at approximately 0548 hours, Bloomington Police Officers responded to a burglary report from Holiday Gas Station, [ADDRESS REDACTED] South, Bloomington, Hennepin County. The reporting party, a Holiday employee, P. H., stated that there had been two cash register drawers in the employee area with $150 in cash inside. Both had been taken. Officers learned that a garage door on the south side of the business was unsecured and led to the employee office area where the registers were located.
Surveillance showed that a male, later identified as BLAMO MARTIN JOHNSON, Defendant herein, was wearing a long black coat and brown boots, loitering around the front of the store at approximately 0000 hours. The Defendant is then seen in the employee area at 0022 hours where he takes the two registers and leaves. At 0344 hours, Officers were dispatched to [ADDRESS REDACTED] Maple Grove for a suspicious person report. The homeowner reported that a male, later realized to be the Defendant, had removed their boots, rang their doorbell, and then ran away.
Officers responded and located the brown boots on the doorstep. Officers then found a long black coat draped on a street sign at Old Shakopee Road and Penn Avenue South. Officers then located the Defendant at Oak Grove Presbyterian Church nearby. The Defendant appeared to be under the influence of an unknown controlled substance. He was standing in cold temperatures with the wind chill in the teens, with no shoes or jacket. The male was unable to articulate any coherent statements and referred to himself as a "big boy" and that "Monkey" had stolen all of his money.
Officers brought the Defendant to the hospital. Officers connected the two incidents together and identified the Defendant through Holiday Surveillance, Officer BWC, and hospital records that the Defendant had been the suspect who entered the Holiday store and took the registers. The cash registers and $300 was located the following day close to where the Defendant was located. The Defendant currently has active warrants and therefore the State requests this complaint issue as a warrant.
