Shawn Hogendorf of the Prior Lake American reports:

Three teenagers from Savage were arrested for burglary last weekend after they allegedly scaled the drain pipe of a building in Prior Lake and got into the vacant building through a hatch on the roof.
While police officer Rick Denmark was on routine patrol in the Fountain Hills area at about 10:28 p.m. on March 13, he saw what appeared to be a person moving inside the area formerly occupied by Creative Floor Gallery, 4385 Fountain Hills Drive.

Jim Terwedo, Donna Will, and Jim Dubbe were the honorees at Saturday’s Distinguished Service Award banquet, held at the Ridges of Sand Creek Golf Course in Sand Creek Township, near Jordan.

Tim Sonnek spoke about Dubbe and presented the outstanding agriculturist award.

Jerry Langsweirdt spoke about Will and presented the outstanding young Jordanite award.

Rick Lockert spoke about Terwedo, as did Ed Bowler. Terwedo received the Distinguished Service Award from Bowler.

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Shawn Hogendorf of the Prior Lake American reports:

Just hours before the final jurors could have been selected and opening arguments were to begin in the second-degree murder trial of Charles Anthony Maddox Jr., the Scott County Attorney’s Office on Friday filed a pretrial appeal of Judge Jerome Abrams’ decision to allow the defense to present expert testimony about acute stress disorder, which is the first stage of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Shawn Hogendorf of the Prior Lake American reports:

Jury selection in the second-degree murder trial of Charles Anthony Maddox Jr., 46, started Tuesday in Scott County District Court in Shakopee.

Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports:

As Scott County tries to civilly commit a seventh resident to the state’s sex-offender treatment facility, it is preparing to possibly take one back.

The county has been told it might receive one of the first waves of patients ever to be released from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.

More than 550 Minnesotans are housed at the program’s two facilities — mostly paroled sex offenders who were indefinitely committed for treatment by the courts.

Shawn Hogendorf of the Prior Lake American reports:

Former Prior Lake pastor John Kameron Erbele pleaded guilty last Wednesday (Feb. 3) in Ramsey County District Court on charges of soliciting a prostitute.

The 36-year-old was a pastor at LifePrint Church, which meets at Twin Oaks Middle School, will serve probation in lieu of jail time for the misdemeanor offense under the plea agreement reached.

A former Jordan student is suing Jordan Public Schools for a sexual assault that allegedly occurred during football camp at Minnesota State University-Mankato in July 2007.

The man, who was 15 at the time, claims another teen undressed him while he was sleeping, took photos of him in sexually explicit positions and showed the images to other players and coaches at the camp.

The civil complaint, submitted by the plaintiff's attorney, Patrick Noaker of St. Paul, also names the university and alleged attacker, an unnamed juvenile identified as “John Doe D.”

Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports:

SHAKOPEE -- A Level-3 sex offender who was going to live on a cul-de-sac near Shakopee Junior High School will not be making the move.

The woman who planned to house 39-year-old Gerald Eldred Keast changed her mind after he started moving boxes into the home. Keast will live somewhere outside Scott County instead, she told the Valley News.

Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports:

An Amber Alert was about to be issued for a missing Shakopee infant late last month, when the mother who abducted him called to turn herself in.

Guadalupe Alvarez-Barradas, 23, took off with her 16-month-old son from a supervised visit on Jan. 20 at Wampach’s Restaurant in Shakopee. She fled after a Scott County social worker, who was with her, stepped outside about 11:40 a.m. to take a phone call.

Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports:

The “Las Vegas of the Midwest” is taking on little Las Vegas.
Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, one of the nation’s largest tribal government-run casinos, has filed a trademark lawsuit against a neighborhood video poker bar in suburban Las Vegas called Mystic Lodge Casino.

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community filed suit in U.S. District Court on Jan. 6 in Las Vegas against the owner of the Henderson, Nev. casino.