Crime & Safety

Blotter: Loud Singing and Sex in Vehicles

A weekly selection of incidents drawn from Hopkins police files.

Monday, Nov. 28

  • 1:17 a.m. — Police went to in response to a report of loud singing. Officers talked to the singers.
  • 3:43 p.m. — Officers received a report of a drunk man in the Driskill’s deli eating food he hadn’t paid for. A reservation for the man was made at Mission Detox.
  • 8:39 p.m. — A resident told officers that a couple was having sex in a vehicle in a back corner lot near and that prostitution was suspected. Officers found the vehicle and its occupants, but nothing illegal was taking place. 

Tuesday, Nov. 29

  • 11:59 a.m. — Police received a report that someone broke into a vehicle parked on the 700 block of 11th Avenue South and stole two jackets.
  • 12:09 a.m. — Police received a report that someone broke into a Lexus parked on the 300 block of Herman Terrace and stole a $20 handheld GPS.

Thursday, Dec. 1

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  • 12:47 p.m. — A shoplifter was detained in the Blake Road Walgreens photo department.

Friday, Dec. 2

  • 1:21 p.m. — A resident told police someone tried to break into a home on the 300 block of 17th Avenue North. The back screen had been slashed.
  • 3:17 p.m. — A Knollwood Apartments resident told police someone stole $200 from a jar kept inside the unit.
  • 6:56 p.m. — The Blake Road Holiday reported that a woman stole two boxes of cigarettes. 
  • 7:27 p.m. — A woman told police her daughter found someone on myyearbook.com who claimed to be from a modeling agency. The person asked the daughter to take her shirt off, which she did. The daughter later decided this wasn’t a good idea and told her mother. The family turned out to live Minnetonka.
  • 10:18 p.m. — A Creekwood Estates resident told police that three turquoise rings, a wallet and drugs were missing. 

Saturday, Dec. 3

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  • 10:22 p.m. — Police went to Peace Valley Townhomes for a report of a drunk woman smashing a resident’s property.

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