If you have a tip concerning a crime, call the Sartell Police Department at 320-251-8186 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320-255-1301, or access its tip site at tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for a crime.
March 7
3:40 p.m. Found property. Second Street S. A male party stopped by the Sartell Police Department and dropped off a license plate he had found in a snowbank at a nearby business. Staff was able to run the plate and find a phone number for the registered owner of the vehicle it belongs on. The owner didn’t know they had lost their plate but confirmed it was theirs. The owner came to the police department and picked up the plate.
March 8
2:02 a.m. Intoxicated person. Cypress Court. Officers were called for two brothers fighting in a residence. The officers spoke to both parties and determined the fight was over an ex-girlfriend of one of the men. Both parties showed signs of injury, but both declined medical and neither wanted to press charges. The officers ran both names and learned the one brother had four warrants out of Benton, Washington and Sherburne counties. Warrants were confirmed by dispatch and the man was taken into custody. The man was transported to Stearns County Jail and held on his warrants.
March 9
2:17 a.m. Unwanted person. Le Sauk Drive. An officer was called to respond to a business for a verbally aggressive man. The officer arrived and found an intoxicated man yelling at staff and refusing to leave. The man reported to the officer he felt disrespected by staff for not allowing him to get a room after he had been drinking at a nearby bar. The officer noted it was hard to understand the man due to intoxication level and a language barrier. The officer spoke to the employee who had called 911 and was informed the man didn’t have enough money to rent a room. When the man was told he couldn’t rent a room, he became confrontational and rude to other guests. The employee asked the man to leave, and the man threw a cup of pens and business cards at her, which knocked a clock off the wall. Staff wanted nothing done criminally other than the man to be trespassed and removed from the property. The officer verbally trespassed the man and transported him to an address in St. Cloud.
March 10
1:03 a.m. Information. Heritage Drive. While on patrol, an officer found someone had slid into the Leander Avenue street sign at the exit out of the round-about. The vehicle had left the area, and the officer had no way to identify the striking vehicle. The officer notified Public Works of the down sign.
March 11
2:46 p.m. Threats. Killdeer Avenue S. An officer was requested for a father and son who were arguing, and the son stated he was going to kill the father. The officer arrived and learned the son had already left. The father told the officer they were arguing about parking in the driveway and the son didn’t want to listen. The son had since left and took the other set of keys with him so the father could not move the one vehicle. The father did have another vehicle to drive but he still wanted the officer to call the son to bring the keys back. The officer called and left a voicemail and informed the father the keys and vehicles were a civil matter.
March 12
10:04 p.m. Warrant. CR 120. An officer was dispatched to a business for a woman with an active warrant and for trespassing. The officer was given the woman’s name and pulled up a picture of the woman to identify. The officer was shown where the woman was, and he spoke to her. The officer spoke to her about the warrant and trespassing. The woman didn’t think the trespass notice applied to all Walmart stores. The woman was issued a new trespass notice; she signed it. The warrant was confirmed through dispatch. The woman had already paid for groceries, she requested her purse, medications and groceries be put back in her vehicle. She had family coming to pick up the vehicle and items inside of it. The woman was transported to the Stearns County Jail for a failure to appear on burglary charges. The woman was also issued a misdemeanor trespass citation.
March 13
8:25 p.m. Assist agency. Benton Drive. Officers were requested to assist Sauk Rapids with complaints of possible gun fire. Dispatch took multiple calls from residents stating they thought they could hear gun fire, some saying it sounded like a semi-automatic gun. Dispatch started taking calls on the Stearns County side and throughout Sartell of similar complaints of semi-automatic gun fire. Dispatch and the officer were able to piece it together that the sounds were coming from an older dirty hatchback car, possibly its muffler. Waite Park police officers confirmed they also had similar complaints with the same described vehicle. Officers were unable to locate the vehicle.
