1/ We've had requests for a list of offenders @MNFreedomFund has bailed out who've gone on to commit new crimes, including serious assault, sex assault, murder. This list is by no means comprehensive, it's only those we know.
Link to this list when contacting your legislators.
2/ George Howard was in custody for domestic assault. He was subsequently charged with murder 18 days after being bailed out by MFF.
3/ Gregory Jones was in custody for attacking a woman in a bar bathroom. He was subsequently charged with committing lewd acts in front of children 3 days after being bailed out by MFF.
4/ Lionel Timms was in custody for a violent assault on a Metro Transit bus. He subsequently left a #NEMPLS bar manager with a brain injury in a violent assault 11 days after being bailed out by MFF.
5/ Andrew Nickaboine was in custody on a 1st degree murder charge in Mille Lacs County. He was subsequently charged in the murder of Billy Campbell in #Mpls which occurred 5 days after MFF bailed him out.
6/ Agitator Thomas Moseley was facing charges in multiple cases.
After MFF bailed him out, he was arrested at the HennepinCo courthouse w/drugs & a gun during court proceedings for the 4 officers in the George Floyd case, + more guns, ammo in his veh.
7/ Da'Seanna Williams was in custody for brutally beating, shooting and robbing an elderly Somali woman. She was re-arrested at least 3 times on conditional release violations after MFF bailed her out.
8/ Twice convicted Level 3 sex offender Christopher Don Boswell was bailed out by MMF after being charged in new cases with kidnapping, sexual assault & 2nd degree assault. Boswell subsequently was wanted on warrants and charged w/strangling woman.
9/ Continuing with other dangerous and potentially dangerous offenders bailed out by @MNFreedomFund...
10/ Vennie Jerome Williams, charged with assaulting media personality Matt Belanger in a homophobic attack in 2020. The case is still pending and Williams has been deemed incompetent. Plus, Williams has an extensive criminal history. MFF bailed him out.
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11/ Bel Mbungson Tosah made multiple statements to police that he wanted to RAPE CHILDREN while he was causing extensive damage in the Terminal 1 Transit Center at the MSP Airport. He was bailed out by MFF.
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12/ (Items 12-14 previously documented by Alpha News)
Deshaun Jermaine Boyd knocked a man with a cane to the ground & stomped on his head before robbing him, leaving the victim w/significant injuries.
MFF bailed him out.
Boyd was convicted& is scheduled for release in March.
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Richard Raynell Kelley was charged in a violent domestic assault against his 71-year-old mother in which he told her he was going to kill her.
MFF bailed him out.
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Insult to injury: Richard Raynell Kelley was convicted in July on 3rd degree assault in the case, but his 15-month prison sentence was stayed by Judge Jay Quam; he was placed on probation.
Kelley is currently wanted on a felony warrant issued for violating probation.
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14/ Convicted predatory offender Timothy Wayne Columbus is charged with raping an 8-year-old child.
MFF bailed him out.
The child rape case is still pending. Columbus does not appear to be in custody at this time.
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15/ Darnika Floyd was charged w/stabbing a man to death in #NEMPLS because he didn't want to have sex with her. She evaded arrest and charges for over a year.
Once arrested, MFF paid $100,000 to bail her out.
Floyd was convicted/sentenced to 13 years. Scheduled release: 2029.
17/ Hans Olson, the victim who was seriously injured and suffered a traumatic brain injury in the attack by Lionel Timms (#4 on the list) after MFF bailed him out spoke out at a #MN Senate hearing about @MNFreedomFund's irresponsible actions that put the public in danger.
20/ We ask you to contact your legislators to put regulations on (or eliminate) this dangerous organization that is weaponizing $40 MILLION dollars in their political pursuit to end bail. MN Freedom Fund is actively causing harm and death to people in the Twin Cities and MN.
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1/ NEW only on Crime Watch. A recent change in Hennepin County court policy is leaving some alleged domestic abusers free on very low bail just hours after being arrested and before seeing a judge.
2/ A new “standing order” signed last month by Hennepin County Chief Judge Kerry Meyer replaced a “standing order” that had been in effect since 2019, which set conditions for “pre-appearance release” on various crimes (meaning whether an arrested party can be released before appearing before a judge).
3/ The prior 2019 “standing order” required a party arrested on misdemeanor domestic assault to be held without bail until appearing before a judge and having bail set and/or having conditions set such as a no contact order with the victim.
South Minneapolis - OFFICER HELP CALL.
Police on site at the Lake St YMCA, possible shots fired. There had been reports of a large crowd, fights, and people with guns. Up to 300 people on site where there was a basketball tourney.
2121 E Lake St
20:32
2/ Police say there's a person in the gym with a gun.
Three males in jumpsuits. One in gray, one in black, all in masks. One had long dreads.
3/ Police say the Lake St YMCA in south Minneapolis is now empty, they are double checking the bathrooms.
NEW only on Crime Watch:
Local chef of notoriety Justin Sutherland was apparently arrested overnight, we're told on probable cause domestic assault and allegedly involving a firearm.
More to come...
2/ Sutherland has just happened to be the head chef at some local joints where gangs like to have shootouts, at least a couple in and around Uptown and south Minneapolis. Probably totally a coinkydink.
3/ A Dec. 2020 blog post notes that Sutherland and other chefs were part of making sure the George Floyd "protesters" were fed [and burning down and looting businesses] on full stomachs.
1. This is new. Another 5 people are charged in the Twin Cities with Medicaid fraud totaling over $10M (we'll come back to this).
2. The guy pictured (1) was charged in a prior theft by swindle case and the video shown was from a probation violation hearing in the case last year. His lawyer pictured in the video is former state Rep. John Lesch (pic 2-3) .
The fraud in the case John Lesch was defending for this guy, occurred WHILE John Lesch was a state rep.
It just seems dirty that someone who had a fiduciary responsibility to the people of the state ends up defending a criminal who defrauded taxpayers under that state rep's own watch (and this isn't new, it's just gross. See also Sen. Bobby Joe Champion for many more examples).
3. Circling back, can someone please put together a shareable Google spreadsheet showing the number of fraud cases and the amounts (must be closing in on $1 billion by now) that has occurred under the watch of @GovTimWalz and @AGEllison. Thank you.
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Just as a point of note of even more corruption, when Abdirashid Said (above) was charged in the prior felony theft by swindle case in 2021, he was living at Audubon Crossings in NE Minneapolis - an "affordable" income limited apartment.
Where is the @IRSnews prosecuting these people for receiving monetary benefits to which they are not entitled and failing to pay taxes on those benefits?
3/ Everyone should listen to this GL episode from yesterday where Soucheray lays out the multitude of fraud committed under @GovTimWalz and calls for him to resign. Crime Watch seconds that call. Please add your voice to the call.