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Police: Swastika Found On Mailboxes In Kenyon
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Authorities in southern Minnesota are investigating after a swastika was spray-painted on a group of city mailboxes. Police say the incident happened Tuesday on the 100 block of...
View ArticleCretin-Derham Hall Students Suspended From Homecoming For Vandalism
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Dozens of students at Cretin-Derham Hall High School will not be allowed at homecoming festivities this weekend after being suspended due to vandalism off campus. A school official...
View Article4 Vehicles Damaged After Rocks Thrown On Road
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Police are investigating after rocks thrown onto a stretch of road in Credit River Township damaged four vehicles. Scott County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the area of 217th...
View ArticleWatertown Grinch Accused Of Vandalizing Holiday Displays
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — City officials in a western Twin Cities suburb are decrying the actions of a holiday “Grinch” accused of damaging multiple homes’ holiday displays. According to police in...
View ArticleWatertown Family Gives Back After Holiday Decorations Destroyed
WATERTOWN, Minn. (WCCO) — After their Christmas cheer was stolen, Chad Semeja and his family are giving back. Handing out candy canes and accepting donations for the local food shelf in front of their...
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Several Vehicles Damaged With BB Gun In Shakopee
SHAKOPEE, Minn. (WCCO) — The Shakopee Police Department says it received 33 reports of vehicle vandalism from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. The department posted on its Facebook page that...
View Article2 Charged With Damaging Headstones In Western Wisconsin Cemetery
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Authorities in western Wisconsin say two people have been charged with damaging headstones at a cemetery. The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office says James Jacobson, of Bloomer,...
View ArticleKingfield Business Owners Band Together After Vandalism
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Late Friday night, vandals smashed a rocking chair and knocked over planters outside Blackbird Café in the Kingfield neighborhood of Minneapolis. “It looked like they had tipped it...
View Article150 Days In Jail For Wisconsin Man Who Repeatedly Clogged Women’s Toilets
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 150 days in jail for repeatedly clogging women’s toilets, including at places he worked. Thirty-five-year-old Patrick Beeman pleaded no...
View Article$1,000 Reward Offered For Information Regarding Edina Arson
EDINA, Minn. (WCCO) — A $1,000 reward is being offered to anyone with information about recent arson and vandalism in Edina. The Edina Crime Prevention Fund is offering the award stemming from a July...
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Man Arrested After Windows Of 6 Businesses Smashed In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Police say a 36-year-old man has been arrested after six businesses in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis had their windows smashed early Wednesday morning. (credit: CBS) Abdi...
View ArticleString Of Vandalism Shocks Somali Community In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Members of the Twin Cities Somali community say they’re rattled after what they are calling an unsettling week. There have been several Somali-owned businesses that appear to have...
View ArticleSeward Vandalism Suspect Released From Custody
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 36-year-old man arrested Thursday on suspicion of property damage was released from custody without charges. It comes after a week of vandalism and damage to several Somali-owned...
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Man Charged In Vandalism Spree Against Somali-Owned Businesses
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 36-year-old man has been charged with hate crimes and property damage after several Somali-owned businesses in Minneapolis had their windows smashed last week. (credit: Hennepin...
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Duluth’s Bentleyville Asks For Help Keeping Attraction Free From Vandalism
Organizers from Duluth's popular winter attraction, Bentleyville USA, are asking for help in securing the park after it was met with vandalism.
View Article‘People Are Going To Get Injured, Or Worse’: Animal Rights Activists Claim...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Authorities in Wisconsin are investigating after a number of deer stands were vandalized ahead of hunting season. Since August, at least 10 deer stands in northern Wisconsin have...
View ArticleCommunity Donates $30K To Seward Businesses Targeted By Vandal
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Some businesses that were vandalized in south Minneapolis are getting a boost from the community. On Friday, $30,000 was being given to the business leaders, in response to...
View ArticleHarlin St. John Pleads Guilty To Smashing The Windows of Somali-Owned...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 36-year-old man accused of smashing the windows of Somali-owned businesses in Minneapolis, and causing $8,000 in property damage, has plead guilty to a count of second degree...
View ArticleMan Cut Off Oxygen Supply At Twin Cities Hospital, Charges Say
ROBBINSDALE, Minn. (AP) — Court documents accuse a man of scaling a fence at a Minneapolis-area hospital and shutting off oxygen to the entire facility. No charges have been filed and a search warrant...
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Mosque And Muslim-Owned Business In North Mpls. Defaced With Islamophobic And...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A mosque and a Muslim-owned business in North Minneapolis were defaced by spray-painted hate speech sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. One of the markings was...
View Article$1,000 Reward Offered After Edina Home Is Spray Painted With Racial Slur
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Edina Crime Prevention Fund is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest after a home’s fence was recently marked with a racial slur. In a news release the...
View ArticleHours Reduced At Eau Galle Recreation Area After String Of Vandalism
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District announced on Saturday that it is cutting the hours of operation at the main day use area of Eau Galle Recreation Area due to a...
View ArticleDowntown Mpls. Cowboy Jack’s, Uptown Cowboy Slims Close Due To Ongoing Violence
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — In response to the ongoing violence in the community, two popular bars in Minneapolis have closed its doors. The After Midnight Group — owner of Cowboy Jack’s in downtown...
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Eagan Police Investigating After Community Center Is Vandalized
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Authorities in Eagan are asking for the public’s help in identifying anyone responsible for vandalizing the Community Center Tuesday night. According to Eagan police, the...
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Protesters Vandalize Minneapolis 5th Precinct, Shoot Fireworks At Officers
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minneapolis police say a group marched to the 5th Precinct Saturday night, vandalizing the exterior of the building with graffiti and paint. Police say some officers were also...
View ArticleGov. Evers Declares State Of Emergency Following Violent Protests, Vandalism
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor declared a state of emergency Tuesday after some protesters vandalized businesses and set dozens of buildings on fire in a city where police shot a Black man...
View ArticleRep. Dean Phillips Reports Break-In At Minnetonka Campaign Office
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) —Congressman Dean Phillips says his Metro campaign office was burglarized. The incident took place overnight at the congressman’s Minnetonka office. Phillips posted a photo of the...
View Article‘It Makes You Angry…It Hurts’: Philando Castile Memorial Vandalized, Several...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The family of Philando Castile says a memorial garden in his honor was vandalized. The garden is located in Falcon Heights, close to where Castile was shot and killed by a police...
View ArticleCars Vandalized, Tires Slashed After Protests, Counter-Protests At Governor’s...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — There was some destruction Saturday during protests at Gov. Tim Walz’s residence in St. Paul. Tires were slashed up and down the block around the corner from Walz’s home, and...
View ArticleVandals Target House Of 89-Year-Old Minneapolis Woman 9 Times In 2020
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Neighbors are determined to stop a destructive vandal from targeting an elderly woman’s home on the city’s south side. The home along Cedar Avenue has been hit nine times since...
View ArticleMPD Arrests Suspect After Home Of 89-Year-Old Woman Was Vandalized 9 Times
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minneapolis Police Department announced Friday evening they’ve arrested a 44-year-old man after an elderly woman’s home on the city’s south side was vandalized nine times. The...
View ArticleWalmart Worker Tipped Authorities In Arrest Of Moorhead Mosque Vandalism Suspect
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Police in Minnesota arrested a 22-year-old man in the vandalism of a mosque after a tip from a Walmart employee who examined spray paint purchase records and store surveillance...
View Article‘Love Is Much More Powerful Than Hate’: Moorhead Muslim Community Forgives...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The man accused of spray-painting hate messages on a Moorhead mosque is being inviting by the area’s Muslim community to visit the building. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on...
View ArticleJust Days After Opening, Black-Owned Juice Bar Burglarized In South Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Not even a week into business, a Black-owned juice bar was burglarized in south Minneapolis. The Dripping Root posted on social media that it will not be open Friday, which would...
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NYC George Floyd Statue Vandalized, Cleaned Prior To Long-Planned Move To...
NEW YORK (AP) — A statue of George Floyd that was defaced in Brooklyn has been cleaned and is headed for Manhattan’s Union Square. The artwork was unveiled on the Juneteenth holiday in a spot on...
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St. Paul Hmong Museum Vandalized
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – St. Paul police responded to the Hmong Cultural Center Museum Wednesday morning after it had been vandalized overnight. Program Director Mark Pfeifer arrived at his work on...
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Hmong Cultural Center Museum Opening Will Be Delayed Several Weeks Due To...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Hmong Cultural Center’s new expanded museum opening will be delayed several weeks due to vandalism damaging the building last week. St. Paul police say they are still...
View ArticleTwin Cities Schools Report Bathrooms Being Plundered For ‘Devious Licks’...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A nationwide TikTok trend involving students stealing items from their schools and posting swaggering videos online afterward has prompted at least two Twin Cities schools to crack...
View ArticleIslamic Center Vandalized in NE Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)– The Dar Al-Qalam Cultural Center in Northeast Minneapolis was vandalized Sunday morning when the security cameras were ripped off the walls. Around 2:40 a.m., the center’s security...
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St. Paul’s Hmong Cultural Center Makes Big Comeback After ‘Heartwarming...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — The Hmong Cultural Center in St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood has made quite the comeback. The museum was vandalized just a week before it was set to unveil a major expansion...
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