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2 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />I. INCIDENT RESPONSE INFORMATION <br /> <br /> <br />The following information contains summaries of significant police and fire related <br />incidents during the month. <br /> <br />Sergeant Burt Emerson found a snowblower in the middle of the roadway while <br />patrolling residential side streets around 2am. He then noticed an open overhead garage <br />door on the block and determined that the occupants had inadvertently left it up, allowing <br />an unknown thief to remove the snowblower and attempt a getaway with it. The <br />snowblower was returned to its owner. <br /> <br />Following the Thanksgiving holiday, a resident in the 500 block of 13th Avenue NW <br />reported that their home had been broken into and a vehicle was taken from the garage. <br />By the time the car was reported stolen, it had already been involved in a pursuit with the <br />Minnesota State Patrol. A juvenile suspect was arrested in Minneapolis after trying to <br />flee from the scene when the stolen car crashed with a parked vehicle. The 15 year-old <br />juvenile had six outstanding arrest warrants (one felony, three gross misdemeanor, and <br />two misdemeanor) when he was taken into custody. Thanks to a photograph taken by <br />Officer Ian Craig of a shoe print left on the forced-open door of the residence in New <br />Brighton, Detective Matthew DeBoer was able to obtain a confession from the juvenile <br />suspect who admitted to entering the house and taking the vehicle, and he was <br />adjudicated for both felony-level crimes of burglary and auto theft in Ramsey County. <br /> <br />On Thursday morning, December 1st, Police Division responded to an address in the 500 <br />block of Fairfield Drive on report an 81 year-old male who had apparently shot himself in <br />the head with a .357 revolver. He was found by his son. The victim allegedly suffered <br />from the early onset of Alzheimer’s/dementia and the family was in the process of <br />helping him sell the house. <br /> <br />On December 11th, the Fire Division responded to Irondale High School on report of a <br />fire alarm covering smoke detection in the tunnel system of the building. Without any <br />custodial/maintenance personnel on-site or immediately available, responding firefighters <br />utilized floors plans, prior knowledge of the building, and experience gathered from past <br />calls at the facility to successfully locate the source and cause of the fire alarm. A steam <br />pipe had burst, with the leak activating the detection system. A School District <br />representative eventually responded to address the issue. <br /> <br />On December 13th around 5:30pm, a resident from an apartment building in the 1400 <br />block of 10th Street NW reported being robbed of her purse near the garages. While <br />closing her garage door, the female felt a tug on her purse and turned to see a man pulling <br />it from her shoulder. The suspect implied having a weapon in his pocket but one was not <br />scene. He fled in a black sedan with a temporary permit in the window and no license <br />plates on the car. Officers canvassed several apartments for witnesses but were unable to <br />gather any additional information to assist with the investigation. <br />