For the second time in a week a standoff shut down a neighborhood in the northwestern suburbs.
Update Jan. 28, 2013 At approximately 4:56 p.m. Jan. 25, Plymouth Police officers responded to a welfare check on the 400 block of Zachary Lane. Officers were unable to make contact with the individual and entered the residence where they located a deceased male, according to the Plymouth Police. The incident remains under investigation. Original post Jan. 25, 2013 UPDATE: The standoff, according to police scanners, ended around 11 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25. A report is pending * * * Plymouth Police, Hennepin County Sheriff's Department officers and Maple Grove Police were on the scene of a tense standoff Friday night west of the intersection of Interstate 394 and Hopkins Crossroads. The incident has shutdown roads near the interstate, but …
Golden Valley native helps police research Minnetonka's oldest unsolved murder.
In November 1973, a 22-year-old Minnetonka man was found shot dead and left in a wooded area in the city. To this day, the case remains Minnetonka’s only unsolved murder. But now a fresh pair of eyes is taking a look at this cold case. Those eyes belong to 21-year-old University of Minnesota student Larissa Johnson who has been the Minnetonka police department’s ‘intern detective’ since mid-January. “I’m just going back to the very beginning and starting over with it; Digging through the details, piecing things together,” said Johnson. The ‘intern detective’ program started when Sgt. Dave Riegert asked his fellow Minnetonka police detectives about getting an extra hand around the office. Everyone agreed there were some “loose ends” …
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