Thursday, February 7, 2013
Nathan Robert Shepherd, 23, was found guilty in Washington County District Court of possessing pornography.
An Oakdale man was recently found guilty of possessing porn on his computer. Nathan Robert Shepherd, 23, was sentenced in Washington County District Court. According to the criminal complaint, Oakdale Police received information from a Minneapolis investigator in January 2012 that a computer with an IP address located in Oakdale was downloading and sharing child pornography. Investigators tracked down an address from the computer's IP address and executed a search warrant. There they found Shepherd, who addmitted in an interview that he had used his computer to download child pornography, according to the complaint. Officers took the computer and a search of the hard drive revealed 42 child pornography files, in addition to a computer …
Monday, December 10, 2012
An Oakdale man and a Maplewood woman were found guilty of stealing a car from a Target parking lot.
An Oakdale man and Maplewood woman accused of stealing a vehicle last year from a Target parking lot were found guilty in court last week. Christopher John Klindt, 33, of Oakdale and Rachel Lee Watters, 30, of Maplewood were found guilty in Washington County District Court. According to the criminal complaint: The Washington County Sheriff's Office received a copmlaint in December 2011 regarding an abandoned vehicle in St. Croix Beach. The vehicle was a red Pontiac with no license plates and had a flat tire Deputies disovered that the Pontiac had been stolen from a Target store in Vadnais Heights. Deputies spoke with a nearby resident who said they saw Watters and Klindt in the abandoned car earlier that day. The resident said that …
Friday, September 21, 2012
Jennifer Lynn Goldetsky will head to a jury trial in Washington County District Court in October.
Sign up for Oakdale Patch's free e-newsletter | Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter Court dates have been set for the Oakdale day care provider who was charged with locking some of her day care children in her backyard shed earlier this year. Jennifer Lynn Goldetsky 43, was charged in July with two counts of child endangerment and two counts of child neglect after allegedly locking three of her day care children in a backyard shed in February. According to the complaint, Goldetsky, who is licensed through Washington County, locked 4-year-old twin boys and a 5-year-old boy in her backyard shed after a county licensor made an unexpected visit to check that Goldetsky was following her license regulations. Related: Oakdale Day Care …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
A St. Paul woman was charged with domestic assault by strangulation.
A St. Paul woman was charged with domestic assault by strangulation after getting into an argument about money with a woman whom she had a romantic relationship with. The 21-year-old St. Paul woman was charged with domestic assault by strangulation in Washington County District Court last week. The incident involved an Oakdale woman. According to the complaint: On July 20 at 3:39 a.m. the Oakdale Police Department was called to the 4000 block of Geneva Avenue regarding a verbal domestic incident. When officers arrived the defendent said she and the Oakdale woman were in an argument about money. The defendent said she and the woman were romantically involved. Later that morning police were dispatched to the same location. The Oakdale …
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The woman was one of three people who used counterfeit checks at several retail stores in the Twin Cities area, including Oakdale's Target.
A 22-year-old woman was sentenced in federal court on Monday for using counterfeit checks at retail businesses to purchase gift cards and merchandise. Ci’Preaunni Ja’Von Stewart was sentenced to time served on one count of aiding and abetting bank fraud. Stewart, who was indicted along with Ryan Lamarr Chambers on January 19, pleaded guilty on March 19. “These defendants were well versed in the complexities of using identity theft to commit bank fraud," said Louis Stephens, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service’s Minneapolis Field Office. "This type of crime continues to increase in complexity and impact to our economy each year.” In her plea agreement, Stewart admitted that she and Chambers used counterfeit checks to purchase…
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Tameshia Leeann Allen-Hodges of Oakdale admitted she brought a 21-year-old student with developmental disabilities to her home, where she took photos of the woman in lingerie and suggested she perform sex acts for money.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
An Oakdale woman is charged with child endangerment.
An Oakdale woman made her first appearance in court last week on charges in connection with an incident where she allegedly did not seek medical attention after a 2-year-old in her care lit her hair on fire while playing with a lighter. Sarai M. Watkins, 28, is charged with neglect or endangerment of a child in connection with the alleged incident on Dec. 29. The child had been staying overnight with Watkins at her home in the 6200 block of 12th Street, according to the Washington County District Court Complaint. When her mother picked her up, she saw that the girl’s shoulder-length hair had been burned off completely in some spots, and cut extremely short in others, the complaint says. Her mother took her to Children’s Hospital, where the…
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
A St. Paul woman is accused of swindling an Oakdale man by over-writing check amounts and making unauthorized withdrawals using his ATM card.
A St. Paul woman was charged with allegedly swindling an Oakdale man she was paid to help with cooking and buying groceries, according to a court complaint. Angela Marie Drexl, 27, is charged with two counts of theft by swindle in Washington County District Court. An Oakdale police officer began investigating whether financial exploitation had occurred last August. In an interview, the man told police “the last straw” was when Drexl visited him while he stayed in a transitional care center and stole money from his wallet, the complaint says. The man also accused her of stealing items from his house, the complaint says. The man said he never gave Drexl permission to use his ATM card, but that he would sometimes sign his name on a check so …
An Oakdale landlord reported his renter when he saw a check from his closed bank account had been used.
A St. Paul woman is charged with possession of stolen checks after an Oakdale man she was renting a room from reported that she allegedly used checks of his from a closed account. Melinda Marie Adams, 36, allegedly had other stolen checks in her room at the home in the 6900 block of Upper Fifth Street, according to the Washington County District Court complaint. According to the complaint, the owner of the home first called police in September of last year. He reported that he received a demand notice from a St. Paul gas station for a check issued to the station from his closed checking account, the complaint says. He suspected Adams, because she had access to his house and could have found the old checks, the complaint says. A little more…
Cell phone communication with an ex-boyfriend sparked the assault, the complaint says.
An Oakdale man was charged with domestic assault for allegedly strangling and beating a woman in his home after she exchanged text messages with another man. Brandon Scott Larsen, 25, faces charges on three counts of domestic assault in Washington County District Court. According to the court complaint, police were called to Larsen’s home in the 7500 block of 15th Street Lane around 5 a.m. on Feb. 1 after a neighbor reported that someone knocked at their door. When officers arrived, they heard a woman screaming “help me” at Larsen’s house, the complaint says. They ran up to the door and saw Larsen standing over the distraught woman, according to the complaint. The woman had injuries all over her body including multiple abrasions to her …
Oakdale Resident
11:51 am on Thursday, September 20, 2012
If Bill Pulkrabek were a 20-something lesbian, he'd have been charged with domestic assault by strangulation? Instead, he's an angry, but connected politician who got a hand-slap of Disorderly Conduct for choking his mistress and pulling clumps of hair out of her head. AND Mr. Pulkrabek continues to run for office as a Washington County Commissioner. I feel dumbfounded at residents who display … more ›