Sex Charges Against Tajreed Edward Rich, Rumored To Be Associated With North High...

Stock photo, blog post by John Hoff

Here is the criminal complaint, click here.

More about this later. There is a news release by the Hennepin County prosecutor so I'm guessing mainstream media will be all over this. 

JNS BLOG SUPER EXCLUSIVE: "Shot Across The Bow" Letter Mailed To MN Department of Corrections By Hennepin County Board Of Comissioners On The Issue Of Level Three Sex Offender Concentration, PART ONE OF TWO...

Photo, blog post by John Hoff

A very interesting document has been leaked to JNS Blog.

My highly-placed, unnamed source described the document as a "shot across the bow" directed at the Minnesota Department of Corrections by the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners in regard to the issue of Level Three Sex Offender Concentration in Hennepin County.

This blog has kept a fire burning under this issue for a while, though my concern is the number of L3SOs in North Minneapolis. Clearly, North Minneapolis bears the lion's share of this problem. But for the Minneapolis City Council and the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, the issue is bigger than the 55411 zip code. The issue impacts our city and county, not just my neighborhood.

Though my neighborhood has it the worst. And I'm going to keep pointing it out.

But here's the letter, written upon Board of Hennepin County Comissioners letterhead. The document passed through two faxes on its way to me, and a sentence or two is indecipherable...

Jerome KingRussell, The Notorious "Imposter Foster" Of Larry Maxwell Mortgage Fraud Fame, Soon Will Taste Freedom! Native American Casinos Are Advised To Be On The Lookout For This Man (Pictured Below) And Not Take Any Checks From Him, Especially If Those Checks Are Written On The Account Of JOHN FOSTER...

Department of Corrections Mug Shot Photo, therefore public
domain, blog post by John Hoff

Jerome KingRussell, the druggie POS no-account who impersonated the identity of mild-mannered delivery truck driver John Foster to pull off a massive mortgage fraud scheme, has been cooling his heels in prison for a while due to his chronic inability to abide by the terms of his plea agreement, as revealed exclusively here on Johnny Northside.

Now word comes that KingRussell, who has used up more second, third and tenth chances than Charlie Sheen, will be getting yet another second chance. Word trickles down to this blogger that KingRussell will soon be released from "Phase 2" of the MCF Willow River boot camp. It is suspected that KingRussell may have been imprisoned upon a "come and go" basis. He has done only about a year of the 4 and 1/2 year sentence hanging over him.

Meanwhile, as revealed in a recent article, the victims of KingRussell's fraud are still fighting to collect something, anything, on the $800 civil judgment. They have yet to see a dime, so far. And trying to garnish wages on Mr. KingRussell promises to be quite an affair, by which I mean more of a turnip juice affair than a bloody affair, if you catch my meaning. 

Deerwood, Minnesota Family Got More Than They Bargained For When Buying A North Minneapolis "Church Van" On Craigslist...

Stock photo from my personal photos, (curse you, Steele County!) blog post by
John Hoff

READ THIS ARTICLE FROM THE BRAINERD DISPATCH, click here.

Yes, Brainerd.

You know. Paul Bunyan and Babe The Blue Ox.

A family up there from the little down of Deerwood bought a "church van" off Craigslist and it turned out the van was involved in the murder of Rayjon Gomez. My favorite part of the article is how the family buying the van got a tour of the church and everything. Now the police are saying, you know, it sure LOOKS like somebody (at the church) was really trying to GET RID OF THAT VAN.

I'd heard before this was a "church van" but I never did find out what specific North Minneapolis church was involved. Heaven knows I've got it narrowed down to exactly three, however, only one of which has a pastor who was a character witness for Larry "Maximum" Maxwell.

If anybody out there can kick some information my way that definitively answers the question of "Which church was this with the Gomez murder van," well, you know the deal.

Tell Johnny. Tell.

Whisper in Johnny's ear so Johnny can tell EVERYBODY. 

Tyrone Hutchins, Owner Of 3523 Queen Ave. N. Has Extensive Rap Sheet, Including A Conviction For Being THE ONE WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!!!!!!!!! But Mystery Of Body Found At House Deepens...

Creative stock photo, blog post by John Hoff (photo does
not depict North Minneapolis)

No new information has surfaced, yet, about the dead man found at 3523 Queen Ave. N. under bizarre and mysterious circumstances. (Click here and also here for previous blog articles)

However, in the meantime I have dug up the extensive criminal record of Tyrone Hutchins, the owner of the property where the dead dude turned up...

JNS BLOG RED HOT SUPER EXCLUSIVE: Bizarre, Deadly Tale Continues At 3523 Queen Avenue North, Man Reportedly "Suffocated With A Pillow" At Site Of Former "Fantasy Internet Strip Club LLC"

Create stock photo, medical training dummy,
blog post by John Hoff

It just gets weirder, folks.

More information came my way after I wrote about 3523 Queen Ave. N., where a man was found dead recently. There has been no official announcement this was a murder, but here's what I'm hearing from a high-level source about what happened at 3523 Queen Ave. N., former site of a business called "Fantasy Internet Strip Club LLC"...

Source Says 3523 Queen Ave. N. Was Address Of "Man Found Dead," JNS Blog Connects The Address With "Fantasy Internet Strip Club LLC"

Creative stock photo, graffiti near Oklahoma City
Bombing Memorial, blog post by John Hoff

I had only just finished writing about an unusual murder in Northeast (unusual because, well, it happened in Northeast) when I noticed a story about a "man found dead" on Queen Avenue North.

Mainstream media are reporting few facts other than somebody called police after a fight happened at the home and when police arrived, there was a body. This leaves all kinds of room for interpretation. Was the man killed in the fight? Was the fight over whether to report the death or hope the checks would keep arriving for a few months? Was the fight over freezer space and whether it was economically cost effective to cook up all this hamburger to make room?

Whatever the fight was about, a highly dependable and frequent JNS blog source tells me...

JNS BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Dodgy Details On The Shooting In Northeast You Won't Get From Fox 9, Like The Fact That "Four In The Morning Having A Party" Duplex Was Owned By The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority...

Creative stock photo, chocolate-covered bacon, 
blog post by John Hoff

Northeast residents near 2419 Washington St. NE seem kind of surprised a murder took place in their neighborhood. I think editors at Fox 9 were surprised, too, when they realized the shooting happened in NorthEAST and not in, well, True North.

In fact, I'm pretty sure when the article was originally published, the headline said "North Minneapolis" instead of "Northeast." That's revealed by the URL of the article, which the internet magically creates when an article is first published but which stays unchanged even when a headline is edited:

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/22479899/man-gunned-down-in-car-outside-north-minneapolis-party

Compare the URL to the headline now appearing on the article:

Man gunned down in car outside northeast Minneapolis party


See what I mean? An assumption based on a stereotype was involved when the article was first published. The article said "North Minneapolis" and not "Northeast Minneapolis." Which was why it turned up in my Google search for "North Minneapolis."

But I'm glad it did. Because I managed to find out some rather interesting facts to share...

Word Of A "Too Little, Too Late" Appeal Attempt Over Massive Identity Theft Judgment...

Contributed photo, 1564 Hillside Ave. N., blog post by John Hoff

John Foster and his wife Melony Michaels, who won a massive civil judgment following the theft of Foster's identity as part of a mortgage fraud scheme, are now facing what appears to be a "too little, too late" eleventh hour attempt to appeal from the judgment.

The judgment is more than $800,000.

According to a document on the State Supreme Court website (which also covers the lower court of appeals) some sort of half-assed attempt was made to file an appeal...of course it's not entirely clear whether it's even a proper appeal. Click here to view the court's ruling and judge for yourself whether a proper appeal has even been filed. 

Funny that somebody wants to appeal at this point, when none of the defendants showed up at the actual trial.

On May 23, the online docket shows there was a Motion To Require Appellant To File A Cost Bond. That's about the last entry of note, though there's a lot of back-and-forth about filing a transcript.

If I had to guess, I'd say some insurance company caught wind of the fact there's a big judgment out there and their client is very, very responsible. And, oh my word...

JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY? That's lawyer-ese for "somebody is left holding the bag even if the other wrongdoers can't be found."

JNS blog will publish more details as these become available. 

Marquail Townsend Sitting In Jail, Charged With Burglary Of My Northside Neighbors, While JNS Blog Makes Free With His Facebook Photos...

Photo from the Facebook page of "Mula Montana," used
under First Amendment Fair Comment and Criticism, blog
post by John Hoff

Marquail Townsend (who goes by "Mula Montana" on Facebook, unable to even correctly spell the word "moolah") has been sitting in jail since May 9, charged with one burglary but strongly suspected by my neighbors in others. He was the subject of an earlier blog post which included the criminal complaint against him.

As promised, here is the public airing of his lifestyle choices and, as a free bonus, additional facts about where he reportedly lives and the suspicions of neighbors about additional possible acts of burglary...

Hennepin County Jail Roster, January 22, 2013 To June 1, 2013 (Plus A Special, Red Hot, Sure To Be Controversial Announcement)

Creative stock photo, blog post by John Hoff

Well, it's time to catch up with the good ol' JNS blog jail roster. It was some months ago that I announced a controversial new policy involving opportunities for individuals to get their names removed.

Well, guess what? Recently somebody accepted this offer and beamed money to my PayPal account, a couple hundred bucks. Just to have their name and address removed from one of the jailhouse rosters. Just so an employer would have to dig a LITTLE harder if they wanted to find out about that old arrest, which never even resulted in charges...

Incredible.

Looking at that glimmering, glowing new deposit of electronic mulooh, I couldn't help but think, "Geez, that's more money than I make from 6 months of Google ads. I might just be onto something, here!"

Of course, the primary purpose of the JNS Blog Jailhouse Roster is NOT to raise revenue for this blog. It's to provide a public service. But every now and then, doing good and doing well magically coincide.

Having said that (eat your nasty dark hearts out, JNS blog haters) without further ado I present the most recent jail roster...

Marquail Townsend, a/k/a Mula Montana, a/k/a Shaquille Town, Charged With Burglary and Criminally Stupid Social Media Choices...

Exhibit A, criminally stupid social media choices of Marquail Townsend,
blog post by John Hoff

One of my readers (and God bless 'em, every one, like Tiny Tim said) pointed me in the direction of a guy named Marquail Townsend, charged with a run-of-the-mill neighborhood burglary attempt. But neighbors suspect he did a lot more than he's charged with doing.

So I obtained the criminal complaint about the incident, click here, and I was thinking, well, how will I illustrate this blog posting? I was just about to snap a stock photo of an air conditioner lodged into a window (one means by which burglars gain access to a home) when I remembered, wait a second, didn't my reader tell me something about Marquail Townsend's facebook page?

Well, it turns out young Townsend makes terrible choices about what he puts on social media. Oh, yeah, he's smart enough to use an alias (more than one, actually) but that doesn't make much difference when your face is recognizable to outraged neighbors and your identity can be determined because you have half a dozen family members named "Townsend" listed with your facebook friends.

So guess what, Marquail? Your name isn't Mula Montana (as if!) and it isn't even Shaquille Town. It's Marquail Townsend and I just burglarized your Facebook photo albums the way you burglarize the homes of my Northside neighbors, allegedly.

Marquail, if you're reading this blog posting which is set to be auto-published on a Saturday morning, then it means that I spent a couple hours on Friday night stuffing all your photos into a virtual sack, labeling your photos according to my creative whims, and preparing to publish your life in one or more detailed blogs post to follow this one.

You've been charged with criminally stupid social media choices, Marquail.

And I'm about to present the evidence. 

Dan Rother, A/K/A "Drother," Becomes Hero Of Nomi Anti-Littering Movement After Vigilante Action At CVS Pharmacy On West Broadway...

Photo and blog post by John Hoff

Daniel Rother, known as "Drother," has been a colorful force for good in the North Minneapolis neighborhood revitalization movement for many years. Drother is pictured above during the epic battle for control of the Jordan Area Community Council which happened a few years back. Drother is the guy in the blue dress shirt with the "WTF" look on his face as Steve Jackson, in the Northside For Life shirt, tries to hoodwink the hood.

Some of the things Drother's done, well, I can't even write about that stuff but those who have been in the trenches battling to turn the neighborhood around, WE KNOW.

We know you don't mess with the Drother.

This weekend, Facebook has been roiled by rumors of an incident at the CVS Pharmacy store on West Broadway involving Drother and a big container of litter...