State Patrol legacy follows father's footsteps
Woodbury BulletinDane Lazenberry is following in his father’s footsteps. He thought he’d probably be a nurse or teacher, someone who helps others. For a while he intended to try marine...
View ArticlePolice report: Tenting at high school, shot with a nail gun, alleged drugs...
Woodbury BulletinNote: This is a sample of recent incidents involving the Woodbury police. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.After multiple reports of a 48-year-old woman living in...
View ArticleFaulty dryer causes fire; resident says she reported problems to landlord
Woodbury BulletinFleitha Beckton and her son escaped their home when the dryer caught on fire Aug. 5, but to her way of thinking, the fire should not have happened in the...
View ArticleText message tricks man into confrontation
Woodbury BulletinA man got a text message from a woman asking for drinks and sex. The meet-up location was in Woodbury. At about midnight June 17, he showed up at...
View ArticleScammers impersonate Washington County Sheriff’s Office
Woodbury BulletinIf a phone caller says the Washington County Sheriff’s Office is asking for your money, beware. The call most likely is a scam.A recent phone scam, rapidly...
View ArticlePolice knock on door as man picks up shard of glass and issues terroristic...
Woodbury BulletinAn unwelcome visitor to the Red Roof Inn was convicted of terroristic threats with reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror. Codie Martin David May, 19, of...
View ArticleWoman gets extended probation for passing forged check in town
Woodbury BulletinA Mounds View woman went to Washington County jail for 39 days and the length of a her probation was extended through 2018. In 2013, Phang Nhia Yang Xiong,...
View ArticleStay of execution revoked in domestic assault sentence
Woodbury BulletinA woman convicted of domestic assault, formerly of Woodbury, was sentenced to two years at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Shakopee after revocation of a stay of execution of...
View ArticlePolice reemphasize residential security check program
Woodbury BulletinNobody passes the residential security check without some suggestion. Woodbury Public Safety is reemphasizing a crime prevention program that is activated when the public calls up the...
View ArticleWoodbury man goes to jail for less than a year after stabbing
Woodbury BulletinA 27-year-old Woodbury man was sentenced to less than a year in the Washington County jail for second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon. Anthony James Andersen used a knife...
View ArticlePolice report: Sprinkler floods football field, the fear of prostitution,...
Woodbury BulletinNote: This is a sample of recent incidents involving the Woodbury police. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.A Woodbury man was transported to jail by Woodbury...
View ArticleTeen gets 27 years for former Woodbury teacher's murder
Woodbury BulletinBefore 19-year-old Bailey J. Garcia was sentenced for murdering Park High School art teacher David Frigaard, District Court Judge Ellen Maas had a blunt message for him:“If you...
View ArticleRed Roof Inn visitor gets prison sentence instead of probation
Woodbury BulletinA 13-month sentence was executed by Washington County District Court in the case of Stephanie Marie Lynch, 37, of St. Paul, who was convicted of fifth-degree drug possession and then...
View ArticleCounty wants to hire prosecutor for major crimes
Woodbury BulletinThe types of serious crimes happening in Washington County is on the rise, and County Attorney Pete Orput wants to make sure the people committing those crimes are held accountable....
View ArticleFamily of hostage shot by police sues city of Woodbury
Woodbury BulletinMark Eric Henderson’s family filed a lawsuit against the city of Woodbury, alleging use of excessive force, wrongful death, and liability for officers’ negligent conduct related to a...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to receiving stolen car
Woodbury BulletinJesse Jacob Anderson of St. Croix Falls, Wis., pleaded guilty to felony receiving stolen property. He appeared at a plea hearing July 23 in Washington County District and was...
View ArticleMan smokes in boys room, gets three years in prison
Woodbury BulletinA Cottage Grove man was smoking in the boys room and later sentenced to three years in prison. Robert Roy Johnson, 51, was convicted in mid-July on felony drug...
View ArticleMotorcyclist escapes at 123 mph, only to be spotted at truck stop
Woodbury BulletinA Brooklyn Park man faces one felony count of fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle. Busuri Busuri, 26, appeared in Washington County District Court on July 22...
View ArticleSheriff’s office debuts mobile app
Woodbury BulletinThe Washington County Sheriff’s Office has another weapon in its anti-crime arsenal — its own mobile app. The free app is the first in the area that connects users...
View ArticleCharges: Majesty financially exploits mother with dementia
Woodbury BulletinA Cottage Grove man appeared in Washington County District Court last month on 10 charges of financial exploitation of his mother, a vulnerable adult. Roman Allen Majesty, 57, is...
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