The Slumlord of South Minneapolis, Spiros Zorbalas, has been in the news again. This time for a good reason. He is now officially out of the slumlording business in the city after selling his portfolio of poorly maintained properties to Steve Frenz. While showing little respect for his tenants, Zorbalas did appear to care about [...]
I’ve written before about how ridiculous it is for politicians to think shutting down a website will impact prostitution. We’ve seen this happen with Craigslist’s erotic services postings, and pressure has ramped up to shut down Backpage after BP became the next big player in erotic classifieds once the government eliminated their closest competitor. I’ve [...]
Back in October 2011, the Vikings pulled into first place among NFL teams for player arrests. Previous to that, they were tied for first place with the Cincinnati Bengals. Apparently, Vikings cornerback Benny Sapp wasn’t satisfied with the Vikings’ one-arrest lead, so he helped extend the lead by getting arrested on December 30th: That also [...]
The Minneapolis Police Department’s Shots Fired map do a good job showing where shots are fired showing were shots spotter microphones are installed. Shots Fired The StarTribune misinterpreted this data like this: It’s a valuable public service to put out this public information, but the sheer number of red circles is a sad commentary on [...]
The popular Vikings blog, Daily Norseman, linked up my post yesterday about the Vikings becoming the most-arrested team in the NFL. Reading through the comments over there, it’s becoming more and more clear to me that Vikings fans can justify just about anything on behalf of their team. We already know Vikings fans support using [...]
With the arrest of Minnesota Vikings cornerback, Chris Cook, on charges of felony domestic assault/strangulation and fifth degree domestic assault, the Vikings have managed to pull into first place as the most arrested team in the NFL. SignOnSanDiego.com has been tracking NFL player arrests dating back to 2000 and offers a great database for looking [...]
You know that mortgage fraud thing I posted about yesterday involving Sheri Delich? Ashley Prasil was involved in it too. As I understand it, it sounds like Ms. Prasil was involved in setting up straw buyers for units in the Cloud 9 Skyflats. So I added her to my white collar crime map. That’s my [...]
I’ve been slacking on updating the White Collar Crime Map I launched last August. Today, I added Sheri Delich after she pled guilty to wire fraud and money laundering tied to the Cloud 9 Skyflats travesty in Minnetonka. That’s the third addition for Apple Valley, which was also home to Trevor Cook ($190 million in [...]
There is an interesting discussion happening over on the City-Data forums about how the heck the Longfellow Neighborhood managed to have 142 crime incidents (PDF) in the first quarter of 2011. That does seem a bit high. Before getting into that, as a reminder, Minneapolis has two areas called Longfellow. One is the Longfellow Neighborhood [...]
I’ve added Marlon Danner of 8314 Delaney Circle, Inver Grove Heights, MN to the White Collar Crime Map for Minnesota that I’ve been maintaining. I found this comment on Pioneer Press’ piece about the FBI’s charges against Danner by someone posting under the name “Rice St” particularly interesting: Danner is a Good old Boy, Started [...]
