Livability Complaints Become A "Walk Down Memory Lane" For One Northsider Living Near FBI Raid House...

Contributed photo, blog post by John Hoff

After I dug up some old 4th Precinct CARE Task Force "livability complaints" in regard to 3851 Emerson Ave. N. in the wake of yesterday's FBI raid, my source of information wrote me a very articulate email about how reading the old complaints was like a "walk down memory lane."

I'm just going to present my source's comments in his/her own words, which are articulate enough as I received them...



Saw your post. The livability complaints were a walk down memory lane. RoseAnne and I ran a block club for a few years. Jerleen Davis is the mother and Sherry Davis is the daughter who own the property. One of the complaints referenced TayTay and others climbing on RoseAnne's car. TayTay is Sherry Davis' youngest son - a very angry child and young man, which is a shame, because if you could get past the first 150 feet of crap, there could be a very charming side to him. He seems to genuinely like little kids (and not in a L3SO way) despite his other disfunctional behavior. As a very young child he was always trying to hang with the older, tougher kids - until he became one of the older, tougher kids. I don't see him around a whole lot anymore. During the incident referenced he and the other kids also keyed "Bitch" and "Fuck You" into the car they were climbing on. RoseAnne never had much money so she drove that car around with those words scratched in the paint for a couple of years because she couldn't justify paying the insurance deductible for a vanity repair.

"Jr." is "Elmer Davis Jr." He is the son of Jerleen and the brother of Sherry. He's kind of a low level chronic malcontent with an alcohol problem. Over the years he would sell pot outside the house when he could get away with it. He and his buddies purchased toy walkie talkies and later prepaid cell phones for the kids at the house and trained the kids to act as his lookouts around the block. At one point, all of the cell phones had the same ring tone - the little ditty, "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." At various times he has been on probation, mostly for DUI, getting into fights when he's drunk and the like. His info is pasted below from the court database.

If memory serves, the three page "must see" document of legend was the result of RoseAnne befriending the little kids from that house and playing name games with them which enabled RoseAnne to learn the nicknames, and sometimes the real names and relationships of quite a few of the people who were living in the house at that time. I was able to do some computer based research to supplement her "field work" here and there. Activites such as that are what resulted in TayTay and others keying her car in retaliation. I don't recall either one of us ever knowing that research was a "must see" to anyone. Huh.

(JNS comments: Sometimes we don't even know what an impact we're having when providing information to the police, it's not like they call us up and praise us)

My source then provided a MNCIS printout of the court record of Elmer Davis, Jr., as follows.

Keep in mind not all of these charges represent convictions.

27-CR-91-040186
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
06/06/1991
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed
DRIVING W/O A VALID DRIVERS LICENSE
DRIVING W/O INSURANCE
FALSE INFORMATION TO POLICE

27-CR-94-085952
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
10/04/1994
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
ALCOHOL CONCENTR .10 OR MORE
ALCOHL CONCEN .10 OR MORE W/IN 2HRS
DRIVING AFTER REVOCATION
CARELESS DRIVING-NO ACCIDENT

31-T6-97-004856
GRPB023983
GRPB023983
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
09/13/1997
Itasca
Non- Traffic Misdemeanor
Closed-Physical File Destroyed
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
GIVE FALSE INFORMATION

73-T5-97-012870
ST 212934
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
10/02/1997
Stearns
Non- Traffic Misdemeanor
Converted Closed
FALSE INFO TO POLICE

05-K0-97-001051
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
11/03/1997
Benton
Knapp, Thomas P.
Misdemeanor
Converted Closed
(TCIS Amended Charge) 5TH DEGREE ASSAULT
THEFT

18-T3-97-007551
FC97007551
DAVIS, ELMER
06/11/1971
11/06/1997
Crow Wing
Casey, Frederick J.
Non- Traffic Misdemeanor
Converted Closed
THEFT BY SWINDLE

27-CR-97-116927
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
12/26/1997
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHO
DRIVING W/ALCOHOL CONC .10 OR MORE
DRIVING W/ALCOHOL CONC .10/MORE W/2HR
AGGRAVATED DRIVING VIOLATION

73-T7-98-004554
ST 231041
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
05/08/1998
Stearns
Hayden, Elizabeth A.
Non- Traffic Misdemeanor
Converted Closed
(TCIS Amended Charge) THEFT

27-CR-98-100067
DAVIS, ELMER
09/12/1945
10/05/1998
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed
ASSAULT 5TH DEGREE (DOMESTIC)

71-K2-99-001232
DAVIS, ELMER
06/11/1971
07/21/1999
Sherburne
Felony
Dormant
BURGLARY 1ST DEGREE
BURGLARY 2ND DEGREE
Receiving Stolen Property

27-CR-00-106871
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
11/07/2000
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Brookdale
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed
GIVE FALSE NAME TO POLICE

27-CR-01-037083
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
04/30/2001
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL
ALC CONC .10 OR MORE BUT LESS THAN .20
GIVE FALSE NAME TO POLICE

27-CR-01-037448
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
05/03/2001
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed
DWI 1 DEG UI ALCOHOL
DWI 1 DEG REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO TEST

27-CR-08-35435
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
07/17/2008
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Bush, Philip D.
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Under Court Jurisdiction
Damage to Prop-1st Deg-Value Reduced Over $1000

27-CR-08-48095
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
09/26/2008
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed
DOMESTIC ASSAULT-MISDEMEANOR-INTENTIONALLY INFLICTS/ATTEMPTS TO INFLICT BODILY HARM ON ANOTHER
Domestic Assault-Misdemeanor-Commits Act With Intent to Cause Fear of Immediate Bodily Harm or Death
Assault-5th Deg-Inflict or Attempt Bodily Harm
Assault-5th Degree-Fear of Bodily Harm or Death
Disorderly Conduct

27-CR-10-27293
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
06/09/2010
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Under Court Jurisdiction
Traffic - DWI - Second-Degree Driving While Impaired; Refuse to submit to chemical test
Traffic - Careless Driving
Traffic-Drivers License-Driving After Revocation
Traffic - DWI - Second-Degree Driving While Impaired; 2 or more Aggravating Factors

27-CR-11-13840
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
05/12/2011
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Under Court Jurisdiction
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
FLEEING A PEACE OFFICER BY A MEANS OTHER THAN A MOTOR VEHICLE

27-CR-11-28032
DAVIS, ELMER, Jr.
06/11/1971
08/25/2011
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown
Regis, M. Jacqueline
Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed
Traffic - DWI - Second-Degree Driving While Impaired; 2 or more Aggravating Factors
Traffic - DWI - Operate Motor Vehicle - Alcohol Concentration 0.08 Within 2 Hours
Traffic-DL-Driving after cancellation-inimical to public safety
Traffic - Duty to Drive with Due Care - Speed Greater than Reasonable
Traffic Accidents - Driver Involved Fails to Stop for Accident to Property - No injury
Give Peace Officer False Name/Birthdate/ID Card

Ah, what a walk down memory lane it was.