Joseph Duane Gustafson, Jr. has been convicted for his role in a family bail bond business that prosecutors say was a front for a violent gang that terrorized the North Side of Minneapolis. His father was convicted weeks earlier.

An accident reconstruction concludes that the wife of former Viking Joe Senser had four seconds to avoid hitting a man on the shoulder of Interstate 94. A witness also reports seeing Senser's vehicle driving erratically. Her trial on criminal vehicular charges is set to begin in April.

One witness at the trial in Nashville chose to go to prison rather than testify against the nine defendants, most of whom are originally from Somalia. A woman who did testify says other Somalis have called her a snitch and blame her for the arrests of the defendants. She testified that a Somali gang kept teenagers from Minnesota and two other states as prostitutes in a Nashville apartment.

Joe Gustafson was sentenced to 15 years for racketeering. Authorities consider him the CEO of the notorious Minneapolis gang. They say his bail bond business was a front for the gang's activities.

A defense attorney for one of two Rochester women accused of funneling money to terrorists in Somalia claims the prosecution is cherry-picking evidence to bolster its case.

The Duluth News Tribune obtained a recording of a phone call that Daniel Schlienz made from jail after two people were wounded in a Grand Marais courthouse following his conviction for criminal sexual misconduct. Schlienz, who died in custody after falling ill, blamed the court system. The county attorney who prosecuted him says Schlienz "stole the story with his violence" and that the real story is that they locked up a dangerous predator.