CO Darin Fagerman (Grand Marais) attended yearly in-service training at Camp Ripley during the week. A nuisance bear report was taken where a sow and a couple of cubs entered up to three different homes through screen doors or open windows. CO Thomas Wahlstrom (Tofte) spent the week at Camp Ripley teaching use of force and firearm skills and tactics. […]

It is the policy of the Cook County News-Herald to withhold the identities of individuals in Cook County Law Enforcement briefs. When court proceedings are complete, the Cook County News-Herald publishes a complete accounting of names and penalties in its Matters of Record. Monday, Aug. 1312:56 a.m., Grand Marais: Animal disturbance on WestHighway 61.7:51 a.m., Grand Marais: Deputy assisted at […]

Elizabeth Jean Van Ryn, 39, Brooklyn Park, pled guilty May 14 to charges of disorderly conduct (offensive/abusive/ boisterous/noisy/obscene) and felony assault on a peace officer filed March 14, the court having dismissed additional charges of disorderly conduct (brawling or fighting), gross misdemeanor assault on a peace officer and felony assault on a peace officer (throws/transfers bodily fluids or feces at […]