A 33-year-old Saint Paul man is accused of punching and kicking a man and taking his cash during a robbery at the Sun Ray Transit Center, according to the complaint.
The offense is alleged to have occurred on or about Nov. 7, 2026. The complaint lists one count of aiding and abetting first-degree aggravated robbery, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison or a $35,000 fine or both.
Dwayne Shequille Anderson, 33, is charged in Ramsey County District Court in a complaint filed Nov. 9.
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According to the complaint, Metro Transit officers responded to the transit center on Nov. 7 for a report of an assault. They found the victim on the ground with swelling and bleeding around his left eye and nose. He slurred his words, needed help standing and was taken to Regions Hospital.
At the hospital, the man told police he was waiting for his bus when two women asked him for money. He said he gave one of them $5, then two men yelled at him and began hitting him with closed fists. He said he could not find his iPhone and believed the men took it. A woman at the scene told officers the man had made sexual advances toward her and that Anderson defended her, the complaint says.
An investigator reviewed surveillance video from the transit center. It shows the man, wearing a suit, sitting inside at 7:30 p.m. Anderson and the two women arrived at 7:40 p.m. and the group moved in and out of the building over the next hour. At 8:34 p.m., the man pulled a bottle of alcohol from his bag and one of the women was given a cup.
At 8:49 p.m., the video shows the man stand up and a woman ask him for a dollar. He pulled out cash and handed her a bill, the complaint says. Anderson then grabbed the man, took cash from his hand and pushed him toward the chairs. The man fell and Anderson put a hand around his neck. A second man joined in and one of the women left.
Anderson punched the man in the face and held him down while he and the second man went through the man’s pockets, according to the complaint. Anderson pulled the man’s cell phone from his jacket and threw it to the ground. The second man searched the man’s bag and Anderson helped. Anderson then kicked the man in the face twice.
A woman who walked into the transit center said, “Let’s go, he’s got nothing else.” Anderson sat in front of the man and asked, “Where is the money?” The complaint says Anderson kicked the man in the body and face several more times, told him not to move, punched him again and held him down by the back of the neck. The second man punched him in the face twice. The group left at about 8:52 p.m.
Officers later found Anderson and another man nearby. Neither complied when officers tried to detain them and Anderson was eventually arrested.
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Jurisdictional Context
Ramsey County encompasses Saint Paul and is served by the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office. Felony cases are heard in the Second Judicial District at the Ramsey County Courthouse in downtown Saint Paul; Ramsey County Community Corrections operates the Ramsey County Correctional Facility in Maplewood.
