Four charged in LSD sale
Four people were charged recently in connection with an alleged LSD sale in Forest Lake. According to court records, the Washington County Drug Task Force arrested three adults and a juvenile after a...
View ArticleLaw enforcement seeks arson suspect
On May 6, Forest Lake firefighters and police responded to an SUV on fire in the 21400 block of Forest Road. The fire was contained to the vehicle, but emergency personnel believed the fire had started...
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Fire department examines local insurance ratings
Photo by Ryan HowardWhen the Forest Lake Fire Department moved into its new space in the Forest Lake City Center in 2014, it became eligible for another inspection from the Insurance Service Office,...
View ArticleForest Lake Elementary evacuated after threat (UPDATED)
Forest Lake Elementary School students and staff were evacuated in the early afternoon of May 23 after the school received a bomb threat around 12:15 p.m. Forest Lake police quickly responded to the...
View ArticleCounty grapples with sex trafficking issues
Alicia Lebens Stillwater Gazette It’s a topic nobody wants to talk about. It brings up emotions of anger, confusion and disbelief. It happens in “good neighborhoods” and in “quiet suburbs.” The...
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Columbus Holiday robbed at gunpoint
The Anoka County Sheriffs Office is on the lookout for the individual who robbed the Columbus Holiday on May 26. It was approximately 1:19 a.m. in the early morning hours of May 26 when a white male...
View ArticleMan charged after alleged house destruction
A Stillwater man faces criminal charges after allegedly vandalizing a home and causing more than $150,000 in damage. According to court records, Matthew Thomas Sonnen, 27, was recently charged with...
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Bad wreck backs up I-35 *UPDATED*
A car crash on southbound Interstate Highway 35 in Forest Lake, just south of the 11th Avenue bridge, backed up traffic almost to the U.S. Highway 8 bridge in the late afternoon on June 11. Currently,...
View ArticlePolice called to hit-and-run
Forest Lake police were called to a hit-and-run crash that left a cyclist with injuries to his chest and face June 8. According to police, a 28-year-old Forest Lake man was using his bike to cross...
View ArticleMarine man dies in Monday crash
An 86-year-old Marine on St. Croix man is dead after a two-vehicle crash in May Township on the afternoon of June 20, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Donald Louis Goral was...
View ArticleHigh school student killed in crash
A Forest Lake Area High School student was killed in a collision with a car June 27 as she walking near the school. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Catherine Loahr, 18, of Forest Lake, was...
View ArticleMan airlifted after Columbus crash
A man was airlifted from the scene of a car crash the morning of June 29 after his vehicle hit a tree off the side of Kettle River Boulevard in Columbus. According to the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office,...
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Plane crashes on highway in Wyoming
Photo courtesy of Jennifer4FPM PhotographyThe small plane that crashed on I-35 in Wyoming July 1 is towed from the scene. The pilot of a small plane received minor injuries July 1 when his...
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Fiery training at City Hall backlot
Members of the Forest Lake Fire Department congregated with trainers from Century College in the back parking lot of the Forest Lake City Center June 21 to train in fighting a fire in and on a propane...
View ArticleMan falls from tree
A man was hospitalized after falling several feet out of a tree shortly before 1 p.m. July 14 in the 9200 block of 227th Street Court North in Forest Lake. The man’s name has not been released, though...
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Truck hits old city hall
A man, believed to be the driver of a truck that hit old city hall in Forest Lake on July 15, gets his vitals examined near the crash site. Forest Lake police, Minnesota State Patrol officers and...
View ArticleSchool resource officer contract scrutinized, then approved
The Forest Lake City Council voted June 27 to continue an agreement that puts police officers in some Forest Lake Area Schools, but remarks from some council members indicated that renegotiations may...
View ArticleSheriff’s office to collect unused drugs
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office, in partnership with the Washington County Public Health and Environment will be participating in a voluntary prescription drug take-back campaign on July 30. The...
View ArticleRecent local charges include robbery, terroristic threats
A Brooklyn Park man whose robbery of the Forest Lake Perkins was foiled by local residents was charged in Washington County Court earlier this month. Douglas Lamont Gatlin Jr., 25, was charged July 5...
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Lynch gets 30-year prison term
The Forest Lake man who killed his girlfriend and stayed in his apartment with her body for three days in 2015 was sentenced Aug. 5 to 30 years and seven months in prison after pleading guilty to...
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