South-West Review Police

Dahir Aden, 50, was charged with false imprisonment after attempting to take a minor back to his apartment in West St. Paul against her will to have sex, according to the Dakota County Attorney’s Office.

Roughly 50 people came out to the West St. Paul Police Day on Saturday, June 18 at Marthaler Park. Brooke Reiner says the event, put on by a group of sixth and eighth grade girls who are part of the West St.

At approximately 3:47 p.m. June 22, South St. Paul police officers responded to the 200 block of Grand Avenue West, South St. Paul on a report of hearing gunshots.

Thomas Michael Luby, 59, of South St. Paul was found guilty on one count each of first-degree murder (premeditated) and second-degree murder (intentional). 

A Dakota County man has pled guilty to one count of terroristic threats.

Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom announced that Harrison William Rund, age 21, of South St. Paul pled guilty to the felony count on Dec. 9.

Anthony Bartz charged in death of 36-year-old James Newman Frank

The man killed during an argument with another man in South St. Paul Oct. 28 has been identified as 36-year-old James Newman Frank.
When officers arrived to the 400 block of Fourth Avenue South around 2 a.m. — shortly after the incident took place — they found Frank on the ground in a residential yard with two puncture wounds to his upper body.
Anthony Bruce Bartz, 30, of West St. Paul, who was found nearby, is being charged with second-degree murder — without intent and while committing a felony.