Biggest Stories in June: A Drowning, A Bow and Arrow and Machine Guns

Here’s a recap of the posts that generated the most interest on Hopkins Patch in June. Did you catch all of them?

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Nicholas Henry Alexander Janzen, 6, died after an apparent drowning at on June 1. The boy was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center and later pronounced dead. In the wake of that and a handful of other drownings, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office shared .

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The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office on June 25 issued a warrant for an Edina man suspected of shooting a bow and arrow at the front door. Hopkins police found the name of the suspect, 25-year-old Kirk Martin Rader, on a tool left at the scene.

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A Hopkins man is facing three felonies after a Southwest Hennepin Drug Task Force search of his home discovered a marijuana grow operation and 24 firearms, including two rifles classified as machine guns under state law. After the story broke, Patch to see just how rare such charges are (hint: they’re pretty rare).

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An 8-year-old Hopkins boy tried to fight off a man who attacked his mom early June 1. The boy heard his mother scream while he was sleeping in a bedroom and ran out to see the suspect assaulting his mother.

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DNA from a cigarette butt left behind during a Hopkins car break-in led to a man in jail. The results of the DNA analysis triggered an alert when it matched a profile in the state’s DNA database.

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