Haley Virginia Sims

On December 30, 2025, jail correctional staff reported to police that a female inmate, identified as HALEY VIRGINIA SIMS [DOB REDACTED], had a knife on her person while incarcerated at the Dakota County Jail in Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota. The knife recovered from SIMS was a folding pocketknife. An officer spoke to the two inmates who had reported the knife to staff. Both inmates stated that they had seen the knife in SIMS’s bra after she got out of the shower. SIMS had also told one of the inmates that she had a knife on her.

The officer also spoke to SIMS, who stated she had had the knife in her bra the entire time she was in jail, and she didn’t know it was a problem. SIMS was booked into the jail on December 27, 2025.