North Metro: Alligators and Garden Gnomes

In this installment, our neighbors in the unholy North Metro have slowed it down on the drugs a bit. Everything is just wonderful and nobody does weird stuff that would get the cops called on them… Except for a few bad apples and alligators.

Fridley: “Someone called police to report that two females were lying in a van and possibly deceased on the 4600 block of 2nd Street NE. The caller also stated it appeared the window had been shot out. According to police reports, officers found the window was missing and the women were intoxicated but not dead. No keys were in the vehicle. Both women were transported to a nearby relative.”

Ramsey: “Someone reportedly stole four gnomes from the yard of a home in the 15500 block of Yakima Street NW.”

Coon Rapids: “Officers were called to the 2400 block of 109th Avenue NW. at 6:10 a.m. after someone saw a statue of the Virgin Mary with its head missing in the middle of the roadway. Officers located four boys near the statue. The boys, ages 12, 13, 14 and 15, told officers that they were supposed to be staying at a friend’s house but were actually at a girl’s house all night. The boys admitted to putting the statue in the road. They were released to their parents and charges against them were pending.”

Fridley: “Someone called police to report there was an alligator in a home on the 1600 block of 68th Avenue NE. Police confiscated the alligator.”