UPDATED DEC 30: 2 Roseville Teens Among People Arrested at Mall of America Fight

Updated Dec. 30, 11:30 a.m.: The two Roseville teenagers arrested at the Mall of America (MOA) Dec. 27 on suspicion of disorderly conduct were apprehended on the Level Two East Skyway, said Pam Fowler, a Bloomington Police official.

The pair were fighting on the Skyway at 7:37 p.m. Tuesday when MOA security apprehended them, according to the incident report. Officer Matt Ryan of the Bloomington Police subsequently arrested them.

Police do not believe the incident to be gang-related.

(See attached incident report for more information.)

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Updated Dec. 29, 12:30 p.m.: The two Roseville teenagers arrested at the Mall of America (MOA) Dec. 27 on suspicion of disorderly conduct have been released and issued juvenile summonses, Bloomington Police Commander Mark Stehlik said.

“We’ve got a very limited time we could hold them,” he said.

Stehlik said police are investigating the MOA incident—which included several fist fights and chair throwing—in order to “prepare ourselves and prevent something like this from happening again.”

“We’re trying to determine whether there’s a relationship between what we had and what’s happened in some other malls across the country,” he said.

Stehlik said that it’s “too early to tell” the cause of the MOA melee.

“I’ve heard all kinds of theories floated around, all the way from the false report that Lil Wayne was going to be at the mall,” Stehlik said. “I’ve heard that it was one of these organized flash mobs where attendants get together to create a disturbance, I’ve heard gangs that didn’t like each other, groups from different schools, but all of this is frankly speculation.”

Stehlik said disorderly conduct cases typically do nor receive any investigative follow-up.

“It’s kind of a stand alone misdemeanor citation,” he said. “We’re doing more follow-up than we ever would on a disorderly conduct charge to see if we can determine a cause.”

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(Dec. 28, 12:49 a.m.) Two Roseville teenagers were among the 10 arrested at the Mall of America (MOA) on Dec. 27, on suspicion of disorderly conduct, the St. Paul Pioneer Press has reported.

Police arrested a total of 10 people in connection with a spree of violence at the mall Monday, mostly on suspicion of disorderly conduct, but none of the 10 have yet to be formally charged, the newspaper reported.

The Roseville teenagers were 16 and 17 years old.

The fight—which included several youths fistfighting and even throwing chairs —has already made national news largely because of the mall's name and international reputation. Several YouTube videos surfaced late Monday after the melee.

Maureen Bausch, the vice president for operations at MOA, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that rumors of the appearance of rap stars Lil' Wayne and Drake may have contributed to the fracas.

Social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook may have even played a coordinating role in the events if it were in fact a "flash rob," Bausch told the newspaper. 

KSTP-TV reported Tuesday that security has been increased for the mall since the fights broke out.