UPDATE: U.S. Marshals, Hudson Police Nab Woodbury Parolee

UPDATE (8:49 a.m., Feb. 10, 2012): According to the Hudson Police report, a Hudson officer met up with a team of U.S. Marshals just before 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Mills Fleet Farm in Hudson.

Authorities had tracked parolee Daniel P. Lawler, of Woodbury, to the Hudson area and had checked a few hotels in the area. The trail had gone cold since 11 a.m.

The Hudson officer offered to check the on Coulee Road. The hotel clerk said that Lawler had stayed there three nights, but had check out tht morning. The Hudson officer then went to look for Lawler's vehicle at the when marshals said they had located his vehicle there, according to the report.

As the officer pulled into the Plaza 94 parking lot, he saw a man matching Lawler's description exiting the . As Lawler entered his car, officers and marshals surrounded him and ordered him at gunpoint to lay on the ground, according to the report. The marshals took Lawler into custody and brought him to for processing. Lawler's car was towed to an impound lot.

The report did not include any mention of the nature of Lawler's parole violation.

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ORIGINAL POST (5:05 p.m., Feb. 8, 2012): At about 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, officers with the assisted U.S. Marshals at the in the arrest of parolee Daniel P. Lawler of Woodbury,* according to Hudson Police Lieutenant Eric Atkinson. 

Atkinson said in an email to Hudson Patch that Lawler, who was on parole for attempted murder*, was in violation of parole and the marshals were executing a warrant for his arrest. Lawler was taken into custody without resisting.

According to court records, Lawler was convicted in Washington County District Court in 1996 of first-degree attempted murder, aggravated robbery, assault, burglary and kidnapping. 

More information will be available on Thursday once police reports are completed.

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* A previous version of this post indicated Lawler was from Oak Park Heights and on parole for murder.