Thread by @CrimeWatchMpls

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Former Maplewood Public Safety Director Scott Nadeau.
His son was assaulted by the phone thieves Friday night in #MplsDowntown. (We posted about the thieves last night - it's a regular occurrence).
The son is hospitalized with a brain bleed, skull fractures.
#SeeYouDowntown

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Here's our post from last night.

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In case all of this sounds familiar. These targeted attacks aren't new in #MplsDowntown.

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"If people tell you Downtown MPLS is safe they are lying or incredibly uninformed."

"If you hear that the state is effectively supplementing the MPD, it’s an exaggeration and ineffective."

--Scott Nadeau, former police officer and police chief

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Dispatch audio from the time frame of this attack indicates police found the victim down outside of Augie's.

Here's our post indicating the victim down with a head injury (from the MFD dispatch to the incident).

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Police also indicated that they had a vehicle towed from a nearby parking lot that they believed was related to several of the phone thefts that night.
Plate GBP7*6.

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As far as we can tell, only one mainstream #MNmedia outlet reported on this story (and a pseudo mainstream MNmedia aggregator), and it wasn't Star Tribune.

Why does @StarTribune ignore real reports of violence in #MplsDowntown? This is a serious question.

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Kevron Detrell Williams Gray, 09/27/2003, of St. Paul has been charged in the attack on Jack Nadeau and in another aggravated robbery the following night at bar close in the same location. He's facing 4 felonies between the two cases. He remains in custody.

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Jamarcus Robert Tucker, 05/23/2001, St Paul.
Also charged with several felonies related to the #MplsDowntown cell phone thefts. Charges say he and Williams-Gray often perpetrated the scheme together.

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Kicker: Jamarcus Robert Tucker is a self-admitted "gang banger" and SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN PRISON, but TWO felony gun related charges in two separate cases were dismissed in a Ramsey County plea deal in Dec '21/Jan '22. He was spun out with time served.
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