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Police Lt. Al Kuehl will be holding a community notification meeting regarding registered sex offender Christopher Michael Loving, 37. This meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. in Room 104 of Rochester City Hall this coming Wednesday, May 20th, 2009.

Loving is currently classified as a “high risk” sex offender, level 3, and has identified himself as currently homeless. This will require him to check in with law enforcement once a week to identify where he will be residing.

In 2003, Loving was convicted in Ramsey County of Criminal Sexual Conduct in the 2nd Degree (against persons between 13-15 years old). He was released at the end of 2008, but then got arrested for purchasing drugs shortly thereafter. Now he is being released again, but currently has no address at which he will be staying. You can find more information by attending this community notification meeting on Wednesday.

More information: Postbulletin.com Article

A female traveling down 7th street in Byron was stopped by someone impersonating a police officer last Thursday. It was about 1PM on March 26th that a burgundy Crown Victoria with dashboard lights stopped a female who was delivering newspapers. According to the police report, he asked to see her drivers license. He took a brief glance at it, then said something to the effect of, “Watch your speed”. Feeling suspicious, the female called law enforcement after the incident. She then met a Sheriff’s Deputy to report what had happened.

The suspect was described as a male in is 50’s, medium height, and clean shaven. According to the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office, it is unclear whether this is related to a string of previous incidents of a male impersonating an officer in Goodhue County a few months back. The description of the suspect was similar, but the vehicle descriptions do not match.

Remember: if you are ever stopped by an unmarked police car and are approached by a person in plainclothes, ask them for their identification. If you have reason to believe that they are not a law enforcement officer, then call 911.

I received a “scam alert” from Cop Talk Live, indicating that there was a warning out to Olmsted County residents that a frozen meat truck was going door to door selling meat products. According to this alert, the meat may not be refrigerated properly, and according to a Goodhue County Sheriff Deputy looked like storage of the meat may have been in violation of health codes.

I can confirm this report! People in a truck like this came by home in Byron two days ago asking if I was interested in any meat. I declined, thinking it was a bizarre business plan anyway to sell meat door to door unsolicited. If anyone sees this truck, law enforcement would like you to call them right away at 328-6800 so they can follow up and make sure they are not doing anything illegal.

Here is the note from the Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office notifying Rochester Police about this incident.

“Tonight I had a call about North Star Meats selling door to door. I found them at Kwik Trip and spoke with them. They are selling door to door as I was told. They started out the relationship by lying to me. About three weeks ago I saw the van SB on 52 and it looked shady, I googled the business, the van is a full size van with an old North Star hockey type logo on it.

The net says they are shady, selling outdated product other underhanded stuff. When we were talking tonight I saw the “freezer” they had in the back of this crusty van. There was meat just laying out in the air in the back, not refrigerated. Also the inside of the freezer was naked house insulation. Has to be several pages of health code violations there.

They are a legit business, they have door hangers and the such. One of the guys had a pocket full of receipts so they appear to be selling things. Gross.

Just wanted to share, I told them that there would be trouble if I had to talk to any of them again.”

Sent to Rochester Police Department by the Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office

Can you easily translate the title of this blog post? Then this topic directly relates to you. If you have kids with cell phones, this directly relates to you! “Do You Text and Drive?” is the question, and if you do, you are not only breaking the law, but also putting your life in danger.

Last week, a young female driver in Olmsted County was texting on her cell phone while driving, drifted over the fog line of the road, overcorrected and the car hit a power pole. Several people were taken to the hospital for evaluation. This needs to be a message to all teen drivers, parents of teen drivers, and all drivers in general that cell phones have no place in a car when you’re driving.

Studies show texting while driving is even worse than if you were drunk or high while driving. Reaction time is slowed by 35% when texting. This is a recipe for disaster. There have been cases across the country of fatalities due to cell phone use while driving:

• Police in suburban Phoenix blamed a teen’s text-messaging habit for a head-on crash that killed two people. Ashley D. Miller, 18, wasn’t wearing a seat belt and was texting on her cell phone while driving in Peoria, Ariz., when her Ford pickup crossed a lane and smashed into a Chrysler PT Cruiser, killing 40-year-old driver Stacey A. Stubbs.
• The engineer of a Metrolink train that crashed in a head-on collision near Chatsworth, California, was chatting via text message with a teenager moments before the crash, according to the Orange County Register. Twenty five people were killed in this crash.
• In Canandaigua, N.Y., text messages were sent and received on a 17-year-old driver’s cell phone moments before the sport utility vehicle slammed head-on into a truck, killing her and four other recent high school graduates.

Drivers, please, put down the cell phones when driving. Parents, prohibit your young drivers to use cell phones, especially texting, while driving. As a parent, I’d even go so far as to look at your next monthly cell phone bill statement and see what times text messages are being sent to make sure it doesn’t coincide with times your young drivers are on the road. It may seem extreme, but you’ll wish you had if something tragic were to happen.

Minnesota Statute: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H3726.0.html&session=ls85