Kingfield House Ransacked in Burglary

The residents of one house on the 100 block of West 44th Street have likely never had a worse homecoming. After being away all last weekend, the returned on Mar. 5 to an ominous sign—the garage door opener lying in the grass in front of the house.

Picking up the device, strangely out of place, the homeowner opened her front door, and came face-to-face with a horrible sight. According to a report filed with Minneapolis police, the owner’s possessions had been tossed about the house, dislodged, and dislocated. Two televisions, jewelry, a 50-pound safe, and an Xbox might have been missing, but the owner made straight for an old box that hid a set of car keys. To what could only have been her horror, the keys were gone from their nest, and the associated car was gone from her garage. Police speculated the thieves had realized the lock on the back door was broken.

Other Crimes Reported This Week:

Mar. 6

A burglary of a house was reported on the 4500 block of Harriet Avenue South.

Lyndsey Barrer of Kingfield was cited for letting her dog off-leash at the East Harriet Farmstead park.

Vanessa Lee of Kingfield was cited for letting her dog off-leash at the East Harriet Farmstead Park.

A new Minneapolis resident started his stay in the city off on a poor note—his ATM card was stolen, and used to buy $455.29 of groceries, gas, and clothing from Marshall’s

A White Bear Lake resident awoke on the morning of Mar. 6 at his girlfriend’s house in East Harriet to find both tires on his car punctured by what police are calling a hit-and-run driver.

Mar. 5

Police cited Kathleen Wigren of Bloomington for parking in a handicapped spot at the Windom Kowalski’s despite, as the report dryly notes, “appearing to have no difficulties with mobility.” And presumably for, you know, being a jerk. The truck she was driving—borrowed from a relative—had a handicapped tag hanging from the rearview mirror.

Preparedness saved one Tangletown homeowner from the fate of another—police reported a house on the 4700 block of Pleasant had a first-floor screen cut and a window smashed, but the aspiring burglar was not able to get in, thanks to a gadget on the window that kept it closed.

Mar. 4

Have you ever seen a more brazen car thief? The resident on the 4400 block of Wentworth Avenue looked out their window around 1:50 p.m. to see an unknown person getting in their car and driving it off, apparently with the aid of a spare car key kept in the vehicle.

Mar. 3

Shannon Gale of Eagan was cited for hitting another car on France Avenue and not stopping to exchange insurance information. Police located her at a gas station not far up the road from where the collision occurred.

Mar. 2

A resident of the 5300 block of Harriet Avenue South returned home at 5 p.m. to find his front door kicked in, and his laptop a gold bracelet missing.

Mar. 1

Jamie Fredrick of Linden Hills struck another car at the intersection of 54th and France Avenue South after glancing at his cellphone at just the wrong moment. Frederick was cited for misdemeanor careless driving and his disabled vehicle was towed to the city impound lot.

A Lynhurst resident gave a stranger a ride home, only to find her wallet missing from her car and her credit cards fraudulently used.

Feb. 29

Police responded to the 4200 block of 1st Avenue South on a report of a domestic assault in progress. William Doege of the Bryant neighborhood was arrested and charged with one count of Misdemeanor Assault in the Fifth Degree.

A Windom resident showed up at Regions Hospital in St Paul with an injured St Paul woman. Both say they were “mutual combatants” in a domestic argument which turned violent.

Heather Drake of the Regina neighborhood was cited for letting her dog off-leash in the fenced-in baseball diamond at Martin Luther King Jr. Park.

A resident of the 800 block of West 56th Street reported their car was stolen between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. The keys had been left in the car, but hidden, the owner said.

James Beard of Minneapolis was arrested at the Windom Cub Foods for shoplifting after a store employee observed him acting suspiciously and stopped him exiting the store. $109 of un-paid-for merchandise was discovered stuffed into his pants.