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Yahoo
6 days ago
- General
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Woman injured in crash north of Conger and other reports
May 30—A Conger woman was injured Thursday morning after her vehicle reportedly went off the road and crashed north of Conger. The Sheriff's Office stated Heather Ann Juengel, 37, was extricated from a 2013 Hyundai Sonata and taken to Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea. The report stated the vehicle went off the roadway and went up and over a field drive on 670th Avenue, before it came to rest on the passenger side in the ditch. The crash took place at 8:07 a.m. 2 arrested on warrants Police arrested Melissa Annette Sandberg-Karnes, 42, on a local warrant at 10:37 a.m. Thursday at 411 S. Broadway. Freeborn County Sheriff's Office deputies picked up Roel Gallardo on a local warrant at 12:19 a.m. Friday in Alden after he was arrested in Faribault County on a warrant. Damage reported Police received a report at 11:50 a.m. Thursday of eggs and toilet paper that were thrown all over a truck in a driveway at 1138 Belmont St. Bricks were also thrown at the house. Items stolen from storage unit Several items were reported stolen from a storage unit at 3:09 p.m. Thursday at 601 Pilot St. Items included batteries, power tools, bibs, coats, boots and hunting and fishing items. Man arrested on warrant, possession Police arrested Pah Ne Gay, 22, on a Freeborn County warrant and fifth-degree possession at 11:28 p.m. Thursday near East Third Street and James Avenue. More News Friction builds between Walz, public sector unions on multiple fronts Sickly pooch forces Delta flight to make unscheduled landing in Twin Cities Immigrants fear losing crucial health care if Minnesota legislators revoke access Attempted break-in and other reports Print Article
Yahoo
6 days ago
- General
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Albert Lea boy injured in Hayward crash
May 30—A 7-year-old boy was injured Thursday afternoon after a crash on Freeborn County Road 46 in Hayward. The child, Jeremiah Sierra McCormick, was taken by ambulance to Mayo Clinic Health System, according to the Freeborn County Sheriff's Office. The crash report stated the child was one of three passengers in a 2013 Cadillac XTS driven by Karena Danielle Sierra, 26, of Albert Lea. Sierra and the other passengers, Anarcah Amirah McCormick, 3, and Naleiah Adelite McCormick, 1, were not injured. According to the report, the Cadillac was westbound on Freeborn County Road 46 approaching 810th Avenue when a 2010 Ford Fusion, driven by Calli Ann Nelson, 20, of Glenville reportedly pulled out from a stop sign in the southbound lane on 810th Avenue and the two vehicles collided in the intersection. The vehicles then crashed into a 2008 Freightliner, driven by Kidaneaale Dejene, 40, of Minneapolis, that was eastbound on County Road 46 and waiting to turn southbound on 810th Avenue. The crash occurred at 1:10 p.m. Thursday.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Yahoo
Albert Lea man injured in truck-train collision near Oakland
May 7—A 25-year-old Albert Lea man was taken by private vehicle to Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea Tuesday morning after the truck he was driving was reportedly struck by a train two miles west of Oakland. Lukas Peterson was driving a 2006 International tractor-truck owned by Hayward Cooperative north on 870th Avenue approaching the railroad tracks north of Freeborn County Road 46 when the incoming Canadian Pacific train reportedly sounded its horn. According to the Freeborn County Sheriff's Office, Peterson slowed down but did not stop for the tracks and started to cross. The truck was ultimately hit by the train on the passenger side front engine area and was thrown into the ditch. The train was traveling about 40 mph at the time of the crash, the Sheriff's Office stated. The truck was totaled. The Minnesota duty officer was contacted due to a spill of dry fertilizer, diesel fuel and hydraulic fluid from the truck.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
Truck struck by train west of Oakland
May 7—A 25-year-old Albert Lea man was taken by private vehicle to Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea Tuesday morning after the truck he was driving was reportedly struck by a train two miles west of Oakland. Lukas Peterson was driving a 2006 International tractor-truck owned by Hayward Cooperative north on 870th Avenue approaching the railroad tracks north of Freeborn County Road 46 when the incoming Canadian Pacific train reportedly sounded its horn. According to the Freeborn County Sheriff's Office, Peterson slowed down but did not stop for the tracks and started to cross. The truck was ultimately hit by the train on the passenger side front engine area and was thrown into the ditch. The train was traveling about 40 mph at the time of the crash, the Sheriff's Office stated. The truck was totaled. The Minnesota duty officer was contacted due to a spill of dry fertilizer, diesel fuel and hydraulic fluid from the truck.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Politics
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Sheriff clarifies addition to ICE agreement in Freeborn County
Apr. 11—New program would allow local jail staff to serve immigration warrants in the jail The Freeborn County Sheriff's Office has applied for an addendum to its U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreement that will allow staff in the Freeborn County jail to serve ICE immigration warrants as requested by the federal government to local inmates brought into the jail under separate criminal charges. Sheriff Ryan Shea said the ICE Warrant Service Officer Program would only be utilized in the jail by a handful of detention staff and would not be used by licensed local law enforcement out in the community. Shea said the program would eliminate someone from ICE having to come down to Freeborn County to deliver an immigration-related warrant to an inmate in the county. "We won't be going and picking people up on ICE warrants," the sheriff said. "It's just a paperwork type of a thing for in the detention center." According to the ICE website, the Warrant Service Officer program allows ICE to train, certify and authorize state and local law enforcement officers to serve and execute administrative warrants on people living in the country illegally who are in their agency's jail. The program is part of the larger 287(g) Program, which President Donald Trump in January authorized to be used to the maximum extent permitted by law under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. There are two other models in the program, including the Task Force Model, which would allow local law enforcement to enforce limited immigration authority with ICE oversight during routine police duties. Freeborn County is not signing on for the other two programs. Currently in Minnesota, Cass, Crow Wing and Itasca counties have signed on for the Task Force Model, while Freeborn and Jackson counties are with the Warrant Service Officer Model. Jackson County has also signed on for the Jail Enforcement Model. Freeborn County has had an agreement with ICE since 2009, and a majority of inmates currently found in the county's jail are being held through ICE. Shea said there are usually between 30 and 35 local inmates, and right now some of those are being housed at other jails. He estimated about 65% of local inmates are still being held in the county. Shea said he could not discuss what the county is getting paid for its contract but said last January he applied for an increase in the county's per diem rates, which had not been changed since 2019. That process has taken over a year. He said as of April 2, the government started paying the county its new per diem rate, though the contract has not been officially signed. He also negotiated a new transport rate, which had not been updated since the start of the contract.
