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.
The driver told officers he had been hired by a mobile home park to tow a vehicle parked on the roadway when a man he believed to be intoxicated confronted him. Police were called about 11:50 p.m. Oct. 31 to a report of an assault. Several other people came outside with the man and tried to calm him down, the driver said. At one point, he told police, the man pushed him into the side of the tow truck.
The driver told the man he was going to call the police. The man then took the driver’s phone and held on to it for several minutes, according to the driver’s account in the complaint. The man had left before officers arrived.
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Officers identified him as Jonatan Soto Quinones. Police later found him and he admitted taking the phone because he was “upset and angry,” the complaint says. It does not say how he responded to the allegation that he pushed the driver.
Soto Quinones is charged in Carver County District Court in a complaint filed Nov. 3 with theft indifferent to owner rights, a felony; interfering with an emergency call, a gross misdemeanor that carries up to 364 days or a $3,000 fine or both; and fifth-degree assault, a misdemeanor that carries up to 90 days or a $1,000 fine or both. The complaint prints no maximum for the theft count and does not list bail or a next court date.
