MPLS firefighter indicted on drug, gun charges
34-year-old firefighter Brandon Granger is on administrative leave while the case progresses. Granger has pleaded not guilty to involvement in a metro area drug ring.
34-year-old firefighter Brandon Granger is on administrative leave while the case progresses. Granger has pleaded not guilty to involvement in a metro area drug ring.
Police say two people are in custody.
The shows were scheduled for Friday and Saturday at the Brave New Workshop Comedy Theatre.
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The 2022 Chroma Zone Mural & Art Festival will take place this weekend in St. Paul's Creative Enterprise Zone, with ensuing events happening this summer.
It offers privacy at the end of a dead-end road fronting onto Lower Prior Lake.
Golden Valley PD confirmed it received a report of a carjacking Monday evening.
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KSTP reports Brandon Granger admits to selling and distributing cocaine since October 2009. Lawrence Wajda, another Minneapolis firefighter, is also accused of possessing and selling methamphetamine.
A mistake in a consulting firm's report on the Minneapolis Fire Department has the firefighters' union doubting the reliability of the entire report. The consultant wrote that firefighters take an average of twelve sick days per year. The correct number is four. But both sides agree morale is a problem in a department that's been cut 18 percent in 11 years.
Police say they found Minneapolis firefighter Lawrence Wajda carrying methamphetamine on the job when they arrested him this week. He's charged with felonies for allegedly possessing and selling drugs.
A St. Charles mayoral candidate will remain on the ballot despite two felony drug convictions. Stephen Thomas Conlin will be sentenced in December after a jury found him guilty of third-degree marijuana sale and fifth-degree possession of marijuana last week. The charges stem from a 2010 raid on his home and downtown barbershop where authorities confiscated more than 17 pounds of pot, marijuana plants, cash and firearms.
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