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5 days ago
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Spring Valley woman injured in two-vehicle crash near Racine
Jun. 5—A Spring Valley woman was injured Wednesday not long after noon resulting from a two-vehicle crash on Highway 63. Kassandra Lynn Johnson was traveling eastbound on Mower County Road 2 in a 2018 Ford Fusion while a semi tractor/truck driven by Emrakh Farkhadinovich Tairov, of Kent, Washington was traveling southbound on Highway 63 when the two vehicles collided at the intersection, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Johnson was transported to St. Mary's Hospital Rochester with non-life threatening injuries. Tairov was uninjured. The Mower County Sheriff's Office, Grand Meadow Police Department, Grand Meadow Fire and Rescue/EMT and Mayo Ambulance responded.
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6 days ago
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Spring Valley woman injured in Highway 63 crash with semi-truck on Wednesday
Jun. 4—FRANKFORD TOWNSHIP, Minn. — A Spring Valley woman was injured in a crash involving a semi-truck on U.S. Highway 63 south of Racine, Minnesota, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. A 2018 Ford Fusion was westbound on Mower County Road 2 when it collided with a 2022 Volvo VN semi-truck traveling southbound on Highway 63 around 12:09 p.m., according to a Minnesota State Patrol crash report. The driver of the Ford Fusion, Kassandra Lynn Johnson, 36, of Spring Valley, was transported to Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Marys with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the Volvo semi-truck, Emrakh Farkhadinovich Tairov, 27, of Kent, Washington, was not injured. The Mower County Sheriff's Office, Grand Meadow Police Department, Grand Meadow Fire Department and Mayo Clinic Ambulance also responded to the scene.
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11-02-2025
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Man already charged in two cases of criminal sexual conduct with a child charged a third time
Feb. 10—The third case of criminal sexual conduct with a minor has been brought against a Mapleview man. Joshua Alan Lamaack, 44, made a first appearance in Mower County District Court Monday morning to face two more charges of felony first degree criminal sexual conduct of a minor. According to the court complaint, the victim in this newest case spoke to a detective with the Mower County Sheriff's Office regarding the alleged sexual assaults by Lamaack, which allegedly started when the victim lived in a home in rural Mower County. The complaint alleges that the abuse began when the victim was five and continued when the family moved to Austin all the way through until the victim was around 13 or 14 years old. The victim estimated that the abuse at one point escalated to every day and that sometimes it included multiple times during a day as well as several locations around Austin and Mapleview. Lamaack allegedly told the victim once that if he said anything then Lamaack would harm a family member. The victim told the detective that Lamaack abused him hundreds of times throughout the span and went on to say that the effects of the alleged abuse continued on well after the attacks stopped and that he has been diagnosed with Child Sexual Abuse Trauma Personal History. Lamaack was first charged in November of 2023 with felony criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, penetration or contact with a person under 13 and felony criminal sexual conduct in the first degree-injury-use of force/coerce. In that case he was accused of sexually abusing a child from the time he was 11 to around 17-years-old. He was charged again in July of 2024 with three more felony counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct. Two of those are related to the victim being under 13 to 15, and the third is for the use of a dangerous weapon. In that second case, Assistant County Attorney Scott Springer advised in a court filing that if convicted the state would seek an aggravated sentence based on the age making the victim particularly vulnerable, the cruelty of the assaults and that the offense occurred in the victim's zone of privacy. Lamaack is alleged to have committed the assaults from the time the victim was five-years-old into the mid teens. It was also alleged that Lamaack would be physically violent and that on a few of the occasions Lamaack used a knife to threaten the victim claiming at one point that if Lamaack would go to prison he would kill the victim. Lamaack's next court date in this latest case is scheduled for an initial appearance on Feb. 24. He is also slated for a jury trial for the previous cases on Sept. 29 with a pretrial scheduled before that on Sept. 19.
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06-02-2025
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One sent to the hospital after two-vehicle crash
Feb. 6—One person was sent to the hospital early Wednesday evening after a two-vehicle crash as a result of slippery conditions. Marcus Aaron Chavez, 24, of Austin was transported to Mayo Clinic Health Systems-Austin after the Ford Ranger he was driving westbound on Interstate 90 was involved in a rear-end collision with a 2019 GMC Acadia driven by 48-year-old Efrem Teklezghi Berhe, of Austin. The crash took place around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, but the Minnesota State Patrol report does not indicate which car was which, saying only that one vehicle lost control resulting in the crash. Chavez suffered non-life threatening injuries as a result of the crash. Neither Berhe, nor his passenger, 20-year-old Fieruz Efrem Teklezghi were injured in the crash. Road conditions were listed as snow and ice covered. The Mower County Sheriff's Office also responded.
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30-01-2025
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Alleged suspect in LeRoy ATM theft makes first appearance in court
Jan. 29—A man accused in the alleged theft from a LeRoy bank ATM earlier this month has appeared in court. Markell Deshawn Kinney, 21, of Houston, Texas, made a first appearance in Mower County District Court Tuesday and faces four felony counts related to the case: theft, damage to property, receiving stolen property and fleeing a peace officer. He is currently being held on $100,000 bail or bond with no conditions and $50,000 with conditions. The incident in question took place on Jan. 11 at around 3:20 a.m., when Mower County Sheriff's Office deputies were dispatched to the First State Bank located in the 100 block of Main Street West in LeRoy for an ATM alarm. According to the court complaint, the responding deputy observed two vehicles traveling west on County Road 6, one of which matched the description of a silver, four-door truck witnessed by an individual living near the scene who was woken up by the commotion. The deputy stated in the complaint that he witnessed the vehicles at around 3:33 a.m. and that both vehicles turned south on 670th Avenue as the deputy attempted to catch up to the vehicles. As the SUV slowed for a curve, the truck went around it and continued on as the road turned into State Line Road. State Line Road eventually turns into gravel and the deputy stated he had lost sight of the vehicle briefly until coming upon it not long after having flipped onto its top. A black male, determined later to be Kinney, was seen crawling out of the passenger side window of the wrecked truck. With gun drawn, the deputy gave commands to Kinney to stop and show his hands, but Kinney stumbled behind the truck. The deputy repositioned and tried to determine if Kinney was still in the truck, but noted that he had fled. Driving in the direction Kinney was deemed to have fled turned up nothing and further searches of the area also failed to find the suspect. Later in the morning, deputies were alerted to a man that was seen walking around in Stacyville, Iowa, just over a mile from where the truck had been located. Upon arrival, deputies discovered that the man identified as Kinney had been apprehended by Mitchell County Sheriff's Office deputies. Video from the scene allegedly showed three males wearing gloves and white face masks approach the ATM and use pry bars to open it up. A chain attached to the truck was attached to the ATM and used to rip the machine off the concrete. The video also showed the individuals roll the ATM over and reach for the ATM cassette, which holds the cash. It was stated in the complaint that according to the bank, the cassette was likely holding between $20,000 and $50,000. It was also estimated that the value of the ATM was $35,763. A deputy later discovered parts that looked like the cassette while driving State Line Road around 760th Avenue. Through dealer documentation found in the truck deputies were also able to determine that the truck used was a 2002 Ford F350 crew cab from Albertson Auto Center in Spillville, Iowa. The owner of the dealership confirmed the vehicle, with the license plate "KAR" — also visible in the video footage — had been on their lot and that nobody had permission to be driving the vehicle. Kinney is due next in court for an omnibus hearing on Feb. 24.
