February 20 – February 26, 2024
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Washington County
Inmate Who Assaulted Prison Guards During Riot Has Sentence Extended
Christiaan D’Vandrick Bonner, 29, was a former inmate at the state prison MCF-Stillwater in Bayport when court documents allege on March 6 a fight broke out among several inmates inside a unit of the prison. A correctional officer was responding to break up the fight when Bonner moved into the officer’s path and struck him in the jaw with a closed fist, knocking him to the ground.
Hennepin County
Man Given Life Sentence as Teenager is Now Eligible For Parole
A Hennepin County Judge re-sentenced 32-year-old Brian Flowers on Friday for the role he played in the gruesome stabbing deaths of Katricia Daniels and her 10-year-old son Robert Shepard in June 2008.
Washington County
Final Defendant Pleads Guilty in Shootout That Killed Maplewood Teen
The fourth and final defendant charged in relation to the shooting death of 14-year-old Demaris Hobbs Ekdahl at a Woodbury graduation party in June 2021 pled guilty to felony charges in court Friday morning and will serve prison time.
Dakota County
Woman Given Probation for Drunk Driving Crash That Killed Ex-Husband
A woman who earlier pleaded guilty to two felony counts and a gross misdemeanor for crashing into another vehicle head-on while drunk, causing the death of a man and seriously injuring another, avoided jail time Wednesday after a judge sentenced her to five years of probation. A nearly five year pri