A 66-year-old man was sentenced Friday to more than 76 years in prison for opening fire on a team of law enforcement officers in Benton County in 2023.
Officers from the Sherburne County Drug Task Force and the Benton County Sheriff’s Office were serving a narcotics search warrant when the man began shooting.
According to court records, a judge imposed three consecutive prison terms of 306 months each—one for each of the three officers who were injured in the Oct. 2023 shooting. Those sentences total 918 months, or 76½ years, with additional convictions ordered to run concurrently.
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