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13. This is probably it -- Police Use Front-End Loader To Gain Entry Into Suspected Crack House

Reply to NowISeetheLight (Reply #11)

Wed Nov 17, 2021, 03:49 AM

Nov 2021

Police Use Front-End Loader To Gain Entry Into Suspected Crack House
January 19, 1988

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ Police used a piece of heavy construction equipment to ram their way into a heavily barricaded apartment building suspected of being a ″crack house″ Monday, authorities said.

The front-end loader tore a hole through a wall of the building, and 10 people were arrested there and next door, police said.

″The crack houses in Minneapolis are heavily barricaded. You could spend half a day trying to get in one,″ said Sgt. Harry Baltzer, head of the police narcotics unit. ″We used the best system we could come up with.″

https://apnews.com/article/6cd6ca0a3324aec96584e965db5b21e5

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Twin Cities area sees surge in carjackings, putting drivers on edge [View all] iemanja Nov 2021 OP

I wonder how much of this is gang initiation vs actual auto theft TheRealNorth Nov 2021 #1

Unsolved cases have doubled in the last year iemanja Nov 2021 #2

The reality is... NowISeetheLight Nov 2021 #6

They lost the ones iemanja Nov 2021 #7

I have to respectfully disagree... NowISeetheLight Nov 2021 #9

Ride-Along With A Minneapolis Police Officer Patrolling The North Side, WCCO, Oct 20 progree Nov 2021 #10

North Mpls was bad when I was growing up NowISeetheLight Nov 2021 #11

I remember the crack house on Golden Valley Rd that the police demolished a wall with progree Nov 2021 #12

This is probably it -- Police Use Front-End Loader To Gain Entry Into Suspected Crack House progree Nov 2021 #13

One of the car thefts was a few years ago iemanja Nov 2021 #14

I've never heard of that... NowISeetheLight Nov 2021 #18

There was an attempt just around the corner from me yesterday morning. Ocelot II Nov 2021 #3

I'm glad they responded iemanja Nov 2021 #4

My car is also 12 and has a manual transmission (which is said to be a great anti-theft device) dflprincess Nov 2021 #8

that's good to know about manuals iemanja Nov 2021 #15

That was about two blocks from us. geardaddy Nov 2021 #19

Didn't know you lived near me! Ocelot II Nov 2021 #20

We just moved in last year from CARAG. geardaddy Nov 2021 #21

Meanwhile, catalytic converter thefts are way up... /nt progree Nov 2021 #5

Up 425% this year iemanja Nov 2021 #16

In the Twin Cities: 40 in 2018, 4,000 this year. I wonder if old cars have any better luck progree Nov 2021 #17