Stop criminal investigations in St. Louis County because of a judicial decision

St. Louis County, Minn. (Northern News now) – A sudden change to a decades of gathering evidence in St. Louis County has led to an investigation into almost 100 internet crimes where children come to a standstill.

The leaders of the St. Louis County and Duluth police are amazed by the district judges' actions.

“Sexual investigations for children are difficult cases and investigators who do this are special people,” said Gordon Ramsay, Sheriff of St. Louis County.

In 2011, Douglas County in Wisconsin and Minnesota in St. Louis County and the cities of Duluth and Superior concluded a common authority agreement in which they were able to practice the geographical areas of the other in the geographical areas of the other.

As a result, the Lake Superior Forensic Technology and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was created and a forensic laboratory in superior data from devices that were used as evidence.

“Children pornographic material or whether this procures a list of substances or stolen property, a large part of this dialogue is recorded in these phones,” said Mike Ceynowa, chief of police from Duluth.

In December in December, however, the judges of St. Louis County cited the approval of search commands for cases if the evidence in the laboratory was physically collected in the laboratory.

“Searched arrest warrants that have traditionally never been examined what happens after they have collected the evidence,” said Sheriff Ramsay. “What does it look at:” Do you have the likely reason to receive this evidence? “So this is a player in the sense that it is: 'Okay, what do you do with these now?' “

Despite the stop in such arrest warrants, arrest warrants are still approved, according to Ramsay and Ceynowa, which contain the processing of different types of data elsewhere.

District and law enforcement cannot find a new legal or case law that explain why this specific data acquisition is rejected by the judges.

“We always asked the basis for this decision and apart from” only “their training” that they did not provide us with a real basis, “said Kim Maki, lawyer of St. Louis County.” We also made a data request for your training and it was said that it was not public. “

A frustrated Ramsay, Ceynowa and Maki, say together with the victims that those who examine the crimes are most affected.

“I can't imagine how it affects the victims,” ​​said Ceynowa. “I think it is difficult to prepare this kind of crime.”

According to Maki, the bank in St. Louis County advised you to order a search command in Douglas County if you want to use the laboratory for evidence.

Maki said she and other law enforcement officers don't believe that this will work legally.

If an arrest warrant in Douglas County fails, as Maki expects, St. Louis County is willing to submit a lawsuit against the bank to the Court of Appeal to apply for an order that the district court signed the arrest warrants.

Maki said that the next other laboratories that work on this evidence are located in Bemidji and the Twin Cities.

However, Ramsay was relentless, no other place could take over the cases transferred by the case.

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