CRIME TALES MN, Minneapolis, MN (2026)

10/03/2026

A man already serving prison time that includes a 60-month identity theft sentence is back in the Hennepin County Jail as another identity theft and fraud case moves through court.

Roc Davener Adams, 26, was booked into Hennepin County custody on October 2. DOC records filed earlier in the case listed him as imprisoned at MCF-Moose Lake, where a detainer had been placed on him for the pending Hennepin County charges.

Adams is charged with two counts of theft by swindle and one count of identity theft. Prosecutors allege the identity theft involved eight or more direct victims or combined losses exceeding $35,000.

Adams requested final disposition of the pending charges while imprisoned. On September 18, however, Adams waived his right to a speedy trial.

According to the criminal complaint, the case stems from an investigation involving two U.S. Postal Service letter carriers who were robbed at gunpoint for postal keys in Edina and Brooklyn Center in November 2023.

Investigators later identified numerous checks that had been mailed through Brooklyn Center collection boxes and were allegedly stolen, altered, forged or counterfeited. Authorities calculated $343,481.61 in attempted losses and $59,580.92 in actual losses across the broader check-fraud investigation.

The complaint identifies Adams' brother, Rubin Adams, as one of the people connected to the investigation. Rubin Adams has already been convicted federally in connection with the two postal-carrier robberies.

The Hennepin County complaint lays out separate allegations concerning Roc Adams.

After a Chrysler 300 connected to the November 19 robbery fled police and crashed in Minneapolis, investigators recovered the vehicle unoccupied and searched it. Officers reported finding Adams' birth certificate along with several counterfeit driver's licenses bearing his photograph.

Investigators allege Adams had purchased the Chrysler earlier that month using another person's identity and personal information to obtain a $26,519.88 auto loan. Surveillance footage allegedly showed Adams completing the purchase.

A U.S. Bank receipt recovered from the Chrysler showed a $2,018.96 check deposit, according to the complaint. Investigators say surveillance footage showed Adams making the deposit before the check was returned as fraudulent.

Records allegedly showed the account involved had been opened using a Florida resident's Social Security number while listing Adams' Minneapolis address and phone number.

Investigators also allege other vehicles were obtained using stolen identities. Court filings say a Lincoln Navigator was financed through a $33,510.03 loan using another person's information.

A Dodge Durango was allegedly purchased using another identity and a $35,615.26 loan, with counterfeit identification bearing Adams' photograph.

When Adams was arrested on an unrelated warrant in November 2023, investigators later searched the rental Jeep Gladiator he had been driving. Officers allegedly recovered three counterfeit temporary Minnesota driver's licenses bearing his photograph.

A check that investigators say had been mailed through a Brooklyn Center collection box was also found on Adams.

A January 2024 search of Adams' Minneapolis apartment allegedly uncovered additional counterfeit identification cards, passport-style photographs, documents connected to vehicle purchases and an ID-card printer with blank plastic card stock.

Adams has previously been convicted of identity theft involving eight or more direct victims or combined losses exceeding $35,000. He received a 60-month prison sentence in November 2024.

He was also convicted of failing to comply with predatory-offender registration requirements and received a concurrent 26-month sentence.

Court records show Adams' registration requirement stems from a juvenile conviction for first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving pe*******on or contact with a person under 13, with the actor more than 36 months older. Records state he is required to register as a predatory offender through November 30, 2037.

The current complaint also identifies second-degree burglary among the cases for which Adams was already serving time when these newest charges were filed.

Adams is scheduled to return to court on October 5.

The current charges remain pending, and Adams is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

10/03/2026

CONTENT WARNING: This story involves sexual abuse of a child. Reader's discretion is strongly advised.

A father who previously lived in Olmsted County repeatedly sexually assaulted his daughter over a period of years beginning when she was under 13, with court records describing abuse that continued even after she told her mother what was happening.

David Shane Dailey, 55, was sentenced September 23 to 144 months, or 12 years, in prison on Count 2 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He was sentenced to 58 months on Count 1, with both sentences ordered to run concurrently. Dailey received 98 days of credit for time already served and will be subject to 10 years of conditional release after confinement. The court also ordered him to register as a predatory offender.

Dailey was convicted June 17, 2026, when a unanimous jury found him guilty of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The charges covered separate periods stretching from August 1994 through September 2003.

According to the criminal complaint, Dailey's daughter contacted deputies in October 2022 and said she wanted to talk about her childhood. She told investigators Dailey had sexually assaulted her throughout her childhood and described the earliest incident she could remember as occurring when she was a toddler.

The complaint states that after several incidents, she told her mother what was happening. Her mother then made her call Dailey at work and confront him over the phone. Dailey denied it, but his daughter told investigators the abuse continued afterward. Court filings say Dailey later moved to Iowa for about six months following his divorce before returning to Minnesota, where the assaults continued at different Olmsted County addresses.

During follow-up questioning, she told investigators the assaults generally happened when her mother was away and estimated they occurred an average of about twice per week. She recalled experiencing pain afterward and said Dailey also made her watch obscene videos and type messages in pedophilia-themed online chat rooms on his computer.

The case also took an unusual procedural turn before trial. An August 2025 court order shows that one district court judge formally recused themself from Dailey's case. The order does not provide a reason for the recusal.

Then, on the day of sentencing, Dailey's defense filed a motion asking the court not to send him to prison. His attorney sought a downward dispositional departure from the presumptive 144-month prison sentence and argued that Dailey should instead receive a probationary sentence.

The defense argued that although this was technically Dailey's second criminal-sexual-conduct conviction, the conduct in the current case actually happened first chronologically. The criminal complaint states Dailey had previously been convicted in Wabasha County after sexually assaulting his niece in 2004.

His attorney argued that Dailey had already served time and undergone extensive treatment connected to that later conviction and said there had been no new sexual-misconduct allegations against him for more than 20 years. The filing also noted that Dailey continued to maintain his innocence despite the jury verdict. The defense ultimately asked the court to sentence him to time already served.

The court instead imposed 144 months in prison on Count 2 and 58 months on Count 1, with the sentences running concurrently.

10/02/2026

A man has been sentenced in a violent Duluth case involving a carjacking and stabbing that left a man in his 70s with life-threatening injuries.

Warren Holt Jr., of Duluth, was sentenced September 28 to 110 months in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to one count of carjacking.

According to federal court records, the case stems from June 16, 2021, when Holt approached a Ford F-150 parked outside the victim’s Duluth home. The victim found Holt looking underneath the truck and asked what he was doing. Holt said he was “looking for a truck” and left after being told the vehicle was not for sale.

Prosecutors wrote that Holt later returned and attacked the man inside his garage, striking him in the head with a can of varnish and strangling him. The victim lost consciousness during the assault.

The government’s sentencing memorandum further states Holt dragged the victim into a workshop area at the rear of the garage, grabbed an awl, described as a woodworking tool similar to an ice pick, and stabbed him multiple times.

Federal court documents say Holt then stole the victim’s truck and fled. He was apprehended a short time later in Carlton County, where officers found him alone in the truck with a fresh cut on his right wrist and blood on his shoes.

The sentencing filing says the victim was found covered in blood and varnish and rushed to the hospital. His injuries included a fractured rib, seven puncture wounds to his upper chest, a collapsed lung, a concussion and injuries to his face and throat. He was admitted to intensive care and later developed pneumonia after blood entered his lungs. Treating physicians described the injuries as life-threatening.

Holt pleaded guilty on November 7, 2025. In his plea agreement, he admitted taking the truck by force and violence and causing serious bodily injury during the carjacking.

Ahead of sentencing, federal prosecutors calculated an advisory guideline range of 97 to 121 months in prison and asked for a sentence of at least 110 months.

10/02/2026

A woman accused in a St. Louis County case involving more than 1,200 grams of suspected methamphetamine has now agreed to plead guilty.

Candice Lynn Miller, 60, has agreed to plead guilty to first-degree possession of a controlled substance involving 100 grams or more of methamphetamine. Under the written plea terms, prosecutors will dismiss a separate first-degree drug sale charge.

The case stems from a May 17, 2026 search in Gilbert, where deputies with the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office and investigators with the Lake Superior Violent Offender Task Force executed search warrants at Miller’s residence and on her vehicles.

According to the complaint, officers found Miller hiding in an upstairs bathtub with the sleeves of her shirt completely soaked with water. After she was handcuffed, an officer looked inside the toilet and saw what appeared to be methamphetamine stuffed inside. The toilet was later removed, and additional bags of suspected methamphetamine were found in the drain line.

Investigators reported recovering approximately 29 grams of suspected methamphetamine from a nightstand, 213 grams from the toilet and pipe, 34 grams from a purse, 14 grams from between couch cushions, 18 grams from an upstairs bedroom and approximately 961 grams from one of Miller’s vehicles. The amounts listed in the complaint total approximately 1,269 grams.

Court filings further state Miller gave investigators a Mirandized statement and said she had been using methamphetamine for about 30 years. She told investigators she would pick up several ounces at a time from a source in Virginia and typically distribute it to six people over a period of two to three weeks.

Miller also told investigators she had picked up 10 ounces of methamphetamine earlier that day for $2,000. According to the complaint, she said that after hearing knocking at the door, she ran upstairs, retrieved methamphetamine from a drawer and attempted to flush it down the toilet.

Miller was charged with first-degree sale of a controlled substance and first-degree possession of a controlled substance. Both charges carried maximum penalties of up to 40 years in prison.

Under the plea terms, Miller has agreed to plead guilty to the possession charge involving 100 grams or more of methamphetamine while the sale charge will be dismissed. Prosecutors plan to seek the top of the applicable sentencing range. The filing states that if Miller has zero criminal-history points, the state believes the top of that range would be 78 months.

Miller’s defense may request a downward departure, which prosecutors intend to oppose. She will also receive credit for time already served.

Miller is scheduled to be sentenced on November 17, 2026.

10/02/2026

CONTENT WARNING: This story contains references to child sexual abuse and child sexual abuse material.

A former Minneapolis daycare worker has pleaded guilty in federal court after admitting that he photographed and recorded children enrolled at the facility for his own sexual gratification.

Eric Phillip Allen, 41, of Minneapolis, pleaded guilty on October 1, 2026, to one count of production of child po*******hy and one count of distribution of child po*******hy.

According to federal court documents, Allen worked at a Minneapolis daycare between January 1 and August 2, 2024. While working there, he photographed or recorded minor children enrolled at the facility.

Court filings further state that Allen distributed other child sexual abuse material over the internet and made sexual comments and remarks about the children.

Allen was initially charged in a federal criminal complaint filed on August 14, 2024. That complaint accused him of producing a visual depiction involving a minor during conduct alleged to have occurred between approximately June 17 and June 18, 2024.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Allen on August 20, 2024.

A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.

10/02/2026

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10/01/2026

A man died inside the Stearns County Jail less than 19 hours after being brought to the facility, and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating.

Isiah Oluwasheun Ero-Phillips, 34, was found unresponsive in his cell at approximately 3:49 a.m. on September 12 while jail staff were conducting inmate well-being checks.

According to the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office, correctional officers immediately began life-saving measures.

Mayo Ambulance and St. Cloud Fire/Rescue responded and continued those efforts, but Ero-Phillips was later pronounced dead by Mayo Ambulance staff.

Ero-Phillips was taken to the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy. The information released does not state a cause or manner of death.

Ero-Phillips had been arrested by the St. Cloud Police Department for felony domestic assault and was brought to the Stearns County Jail at approximately 9:05 a.m. on September 11. Authorities said he was heavily intoxicated at the time of his intake.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Force Unit was contacted and responded to the jail to take over the investigation. Stearns County officials said this is routine in these matters.

The investigation remains ongoing.

10/01/2026

CONTENT WARNING: This case summary involves a homicide connected to domestic violence. Reader discretion is advised.

A Minneapolis man serving a life sentence for killing his girlfriend has lost his bid to overturn his convictions after the Minnesota Supreme Court rejected multiple challenges to his trial.

Johnny Leroy Brown, 53, was convicted of first-degree murder while committing domestic abuse with a past pattern of domestic abuse in the December 2023 killing of Kesha Moore. He was also convicted of being a prohibited person in possession of a fi***rm.

Brown was sentenced in March 2025 to life in prison with the possibility of release after 30 years. He also received a concurrent 15-year sentence for the fi***rm conviction and 451 days of credit for time already served.

Brown appealed to the Minnesota Supreme Court, asking that his convictions be reversed and the case returned for a new trial.

In an opinion filed September 30, the court affirmed his convictions. Brown challenged the State’s peremptory strike of the only remaining Black prospective juror, expert testimony about domestic violence, statements made by prosecutors during closing arguments and jury instructions involving the domestic-abuse element of the first-degree murder charge. The Supreme Court concluded he had not shown reversible error.

According to the Supreme Court’s account of the evidence presented at trial, Brown and Moore had been dating since 2021 and lived together in Minneapolis.

On December 17, 2023, Moore told her sister that she wanted to end the relationship and said Brown had been “smothering her.” She planned to briefly return home before meeting her sister.

The court wrote that Brown and Moore began arguing after she returned home. Around 3:30 p.m., Brown recorded a video of Moore while accusing her of being involved with another man and directing threatening and degrading language toward her.

Brown disputed at trial whether the video was recorded that day.

At 8:19 p.m., Brown called 911 and said he and Moore had been involved in a physical altercation, that she pulled a gun and that it went off.

He called again at 8:42 p.m. from a different number and gave a similar account while saying he was ready to turn himself in. The Supreme Court said the locations traced from both calls did not match the addresses Brown provided.

Officers forced their way into the apartment after receiving no response. According to the court, they found Moore with an apparent gunshot wound to the head.She was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:09 p.m.

The original charging document states that investigators arrested Brown the following day after tracking a new phone number he had obtained.

Brown told investigators he had taken the gun from Moore and claimed it accidentally discharged while he was standing about four feet away. Investigators wrote that the fi***rm’s trigger pull was inconsistent with his claim that he simply bumped the trigger.

A grand jury later indicted Brown on first-degree murder, two second-degree murder counts and prohibited fi***rm possession. The jury found him guilty on all four counts, but the court entered convictions only on the first-degree murder and fi***rm counts.

With the Minnesota Supreme Court’s September 30 decision, Brown’s convictions and life sentence remain in place.

10/01/2026

CONTENT WARNING : This post includes details of sexual crimes involving children . Reader's discretion is advised .

A man has now been sentenced in a sensitive Hennepin County case involving an 8-year-old child, after court records detailed what happened inside a St. Louis Park apartment.

Tyrone Rice Jr., 25, was sentenced September 28 to 120 months, or 10 years, in prison after being convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a child under 14.

Records show Rice was committed to the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud, and the sentence was a downward durational departure from the sentencing guidelines.

Court filings show Rice had originally been charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct for an incident dated February 19 and second-degree criminal sexual conduct for an incident dated February 26.

Under his plea agreement, Rice pleaded guilty to the first-degree charge and the second-degree charge was dismissed. The agreement included a sentencing cap of 120 months, while the defense remained free to argue for a dispositional departure.

The court’s departure report lists sparing the child from testifying and the State’s lack of objection to a durational departure as reasons for the sentencing departure.

According to the criminal complaint, St. Louis Park police were called to an apartment on February 26 for a reported sexual assault involving a child.

Officers located Rice in the hallway outside the apartment. When officers asked what happened, the filing says Rice responded, “I guess I was touching her private parts.” Rice then admitted touching his 8-year-old niece more than once, including earlier that morning and during the middle of the night.

Court records further state that the child’s grandmother told officers the girl had disclosed that Rice had been asking to touch her va**na. The filing says the child was crying during that discussion. The child’s mother told officers that she confronted Rice, who responded, “I know that was f-cked up.”

The charging document says Rice later gave a post-Miranda statement and admitted touching the child the night before as well as during an earlier incident. According to investigators, Rice described getting out of bed at approximately 6 a.m. and going to where the child was sleeping.

The filing further states that Rice admitted to sexual contact with the child using his fingers during the February 19 incident.

The sentencing order requires Rice to register as a predatory offender and sets a 10-year period of conditional release following confinement.

Rice received credit for 9 days already served.

10/01/2026

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office has criminally charged nine people in a new series of cases alleging more than $3 million in Medicaid fraud.

Ellison announced September 29 that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit filed charges against nine separate individuals accused of defrauding Minnesota’s Medicaid program, known in Minnesota as Medical Assistance. The cases range from psychotherapy and home-care billing to allegations involving the financial exploitation and neglect of a vulnerable adult.

The largest case involves a Duluth psychotherapy provider accused of submitting approximately 27,400 false claims for services prosecutors say were not provided, totaling more than $2.2 million. Another group of cases centers on a personal care assistant agency whose owner is accused of defrauding Medical Assistance of more than $675,000 through billing for services not provided and services not eligible for reimbursement.

The nine defendants named by Ellison’s office are:

* Peter Jason Meilahn, Duluth. He is charged in Ramsey County District Court with 11 felony theft offenses and two felony identity-theft offenses. Prosecutors accuse him of defrauding Medical Assistance of more than $2.2 million through approximately 27,400 false psychotherapy claims. The complaint alleges Meilahn frequently saw patients only a handful of times but continued billing for months after he stopped treating them.

* Awo Mohamed, Roseville. She is charged in Ramsey County District Court with six felony theft offenses. Ellison’s office alleges Mohamed, through her personal care assistant services agency Always on Time, defrauded Medical Assistance of more than $675,000 by billing for services not provided and services not eligible for reimbursement.

* Mark Anthony Johnson, Brooklyn Park. He is charged in Ramsey County District Court with four felony theft offenses for his alleged role in the Always on Time case. Prosecutors say Johnson worked as a personal care assistant and conspired with Mohamed and others to bill for services not provided.

* Qalid Hussein Hassan, Bloomington. He is charged in Ramsey County District Court with three felony theft offenses for his alleged role in the same case. Ellison’s office says Hassan worked as a personal care assistant and conspired with Mohamed and others to bill for services not provided.

* Angela Ruth Johnson, Minneapolis. She is charged in Ramsey County District Court with six felony theft offenses. Prosecutors accuse Johnson of conspiring with others, most notably Mohamed, to allow Always on Time to bill for services not provided.

* Kiddjazzminne Cherrall Freeman, Minneapolis. She is charged in Hennepin County District Court with four counts of felony theft, five counts of financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, one count of criminal neglect of a vulnerable adult, one count of identity theft and one count of financial transaction card fraud. Ellison’s office says her actions resulted in more than $17,000 being billed to Medical Assistance for services not provided. Prosecutors separately accuse Freeman of using more than $11,000 belonging to a vulnerable adult for her own purposes, failing to provide required health care and supervision, and using the person’s identity to obtain an EBT card that she then used for her own purposes.

* Michelle Tyrese Lucas Reed, Minneapolis. She is charged in Hennepin County District Court with six felony theft offenses and accused of defrauding Medical Assistance of more than $42,000. Prosecutors say Reed claimed to provide personal care assistant and home-and-community-based services while she was clocked in at other jobs, including Hennepin County and North Memorial. According to the AG’s office, her claimed work hours at times exceeded 20 hours in a single day.

* Letrice Spigner, Minneapolis. She is charged in Ramsey County District Court with five felony theft counts and accused of defrauding Medical Assistance of more than $77,000. Investigators allege Spigner reported providing personal care assistant and homemaker services during the same times she was clocked in and working onsite at another job.

* Chala Bekama Alemo, St. Paul. Alemo is charged in Hennepin County District Court with four felony theft offenses and accused of defrauding Medical Assistance of more than $34,000 by claiming to provide personal care assistant and home-and-community-based services at times when those services were not provided.

The cases were investigated by Ellison’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with assistance in various investigations from agencies including the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Duluth police, Richfield police and St. Paul police.

Ellison’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is prosecuting all nine cases.

All nine defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court.

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