JNS BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Criminal Record Of Wesley Francis Gubbin, Who Dumped His Hit And Run Truck In North Minneapolis...

Stock photo (Afghanistan) and blog post by John Hoff

First of all, shame on you, Wesley Gubbin, for thinking you could somehow play off the crime problems of my neighborhood, dump your dirty hit-and-run truck in North Minneapolis, and then maybe concoct an alibi after you killed an elderly, religious man on a bike.

I'm sure you only turned yourself in because your girlfriend in the vehicle wasn't going to lie for you.

However, you DID turn yourself in. At some point, you did the right thing. So I will acknowledge that. I hope your inevitable sentence gives you time to think about how to live your life better.

Now then, back to the business of digging up facts. One of the mainstream media entities which reported on this story (MyFox9.com) said, and I quote, " Gubbin has a criminal record, as he was convicted of a misdemeanor trespassing charge in 2004."

I don't know if FOX 9 just didn't have all the same easily-obtainable online court information I do, or if...



...they were simply writing in a cryptic "pyramid style" like students learn in journalism school. The fact is Wesley F. Gubbin has a whole raft of various criminal charges, not just the one trespassing charge.

What's the deal, Fox 9? Why not give readers all the facts? If readers only read to the middle of your article, well, they still came to you for as many facts as they wanted, didn't they?

Here's the whole story of Wesley Gubbin's criminal record, dug up in my precious, unpaid spare time all the way from freaking Afghanistan.

27-J4-01-063589 GUBBIN, WESLEY FRANCIS
05/15/1984 08/23/2001
- Hennepin Juvenile Delinquency - Felony
Converted Closed ASSAULT SECOND DEGREE
ASSAULT SECOND DEGREE

27-CR-04-041475 GUBBIN, WESLEY FRANCIS MCKEOWN
05/15/1984 06/28/2004
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed AID/ABET BURGLARY-3RD DEGREE
TRESPASSING

02-T0-04-027451 X 763029 GUBBIN, WESLEY FRANCIS MCKEOWN
05/15/1984 08/26/2004
Anoka Moving - Misdemeanor
Closed-Physical File Destroyed 1ST DAS M

02-TX-04-038229 X 789696 GUBBIN, WESLEY FRANCIS MCKEOWN
05/15/1984 12/20/2004
Anoka Moving - Misdemeanor
Closed-Physical File Destroyed NO MN DL M

48-VB-05-2218 MLCT008446 GUBBIN, WESLEY FRANCIS
05/15/1984 08/30/2005
Mille Lacs Crim/Traf Non-Mand
Closed Off-highway motorcycle-Operate on a a public highway

27-CR-06-016277 GUBBIN, WESLEY FRANCIS MCKEOWN
05/15/1984 03/10/2006
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Downtown Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed POSSESS SMALL AMT MARIJUANA

27-CR-07-101648 GUBBIN, WESLEY FRANCIS MCKEOWN
05/15/1984 07/19/2007
Hennepin Criminal/Traffic/Petty Southdale Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed Assault-5th Degree-Fear of Bodily Harm or Death
Assault-5th Deg-Inflict or Attempt Bodily Harm

62SU-CR-08-4626 908131361 GUBBIN, WESLEY FRANCISMCKEOWN

(JNS says: "Francismckeown?" What's that about? Does this guy have two middle names?)

05/15/1984 08/14/2008
Ramsey Criminal/Traffic/Petty Suburban Crim/Traf Mandatory
Closed Disorderly Conduct-Offensive/Abusive/Noisy/Obscene

I would like to tell readers the results of these cases but the data is not pulling up. Oh, well. We bloggers admit the flaws and holes in our fact digging rather than, as I taught 'em at journalism school, "just write around the facts you are missing."

When I can acess the results of these cases I will try to get that data printed, perhaps as commentary to this blog post.

On the jailhouse roster, Gubbin lists his address as 1508 MADISON ST NE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55413. So he's not from North, he's from Northeast.

The roster shows his bail has been set at $150,000.