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Iron Range Hells Angels prospect faces rape and kidnapping charges

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DULUTH — A prospective member of the Iron Range Hells Angels motorcycle charter faces rape and kidnapping charges related to a November incident involving two victims.

Paul Anthony Debelak, 37, was charged Tuesday in St. Louis County with several felonies.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) announced arrests last week of Debelak and another Eveleth man in connection to a report of sexual assault and kidnapping. A third man, the president of the local club, turned himself in Monday. He has not yet been charged, but the complaint says he allegedly assaulted one of the two victims.

The Star Tribune typically doesn’t name suspects until they have been charged with a crime.

According to the complaint:

On Nov. 27, both of the victims were at an Eveleth residence when the club leader, Debelak and another Hells Angels prospect — along with another man — were allowed inside. The club leader is said to have punched and kicked the male victim, while Debelak allegedly sexually assaulted the female victim inside a bathroom.

The male victim was then brought to the Hells Angels clubhouse, where he was continually assaulted while others recorded the event, and was told he couldn’t leave for months, the complaint says. The next day he escaped and went to the Eveleth police station.

The chief saw him limping and asked him to come inside. He was scared and crying, the chief said, but declined medical attention. The chief gave him a ride to a nearby park. Police reviewed city cameras and saw the man leaving the Hells Angels clubhouse on crutches with two men in pursuit.

On Dec. 1, the two victims reported the allegations to the BCA. Prior to the incident, the president of the club had told the male victim he couldn’t associate with the female victim, the complaint says, who this week said she had also been raped by the other man with the group. That man has not been arrested.

Camera footage shows the male victim being brought to the clubhouse Nov. 27. Investigators said the home where the incident allegedly began was “filthy” but that the bathroom was “spotless.”

Debelak has been convicted of gross misdemeanors related to domestic assault and child endangerment, among several other lower-level crimes.

Bail was set at $750,000.



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Two killed in second Minneapolis encampment shooting of weekend

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Two men are dead and one woman was injured in a shooting at a homeless encampment in south Minneapolis on Sunday afternoon, police said. It was the second shooting at a Minneapolis encampment this weekend.

At about 2:20 p.m. Sunday, police responded to a reported shooting in the 4400 block of Snelling Avenue near the railroad tracks at the small encampment between Snelling and Hiawatha avenues. At the scene, officers found two men with fatal gunshot wounds, said Sgt. Garrett Parten Minneapolis Police spokesman. Responders rendered aid, but both men died at the scene.

A woman was found at the scene with life-threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital where she was being treated Sunday night, he said. Police have yet to say whether the three were living at the encampment.

Officers detained three people, who Parten said have since been released after police found they were not believed to be involved in the shooting. No suspects had been identified as of 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

The shooting is the second at a southside homeless encampment this weekend. One man died and two were critically injured early Saturday at an encampment shooting near E. 21st Street and 15th Avenue S. On Sunday, the man was identified as Deven Leonard Caston, 31, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office.

“We don’t know if there’s a connection between this homeless encampment shooting and the one that occurred yesterday,” Parten said on Sunday. “That is a consideration of the investigation. We can’t rule it out.”

Ward 12 Council Member Aurin Chowdhury, who represents the area and lives nearby, was at the site of the shooting Sunday afternoon. She said officials need information about what happened to better understand how to address situations like this long-term.

“This is an absolute tragedy, and this type of violence should never occur within our city,” she said. “It really makes me think about how we need to look at this more systemically and not just take a whack-a-mole approach and expect the problem to go away.



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Walz plays Madden video game with AOC on Twitch

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During Sunday’s Twitch stream, Walz and Ocasio-Cortez played Madden while discussing making homebuying more accessible, building affordable housing, eliminating student loan debt and raising the federal minimum wage.

After the match, Walz showed off his Sega skills in a round of “Crazy Taxi,” the Y2K-era racing game where gamers play as a taxi driver picking up passengers and taking them to their destination for cash.

Walz called himself a “first-generation gamer” and recalled playing “Crazy Taxi” when he bought a Sega Dreamcast. He also mentioned the Minnesota Star Tribune’s coverage of how his old game console was sold and ended up with a Plymouth resident, who still has it.

Afterward, Walz and Ocasio-Cortez watched a short clip of Trump denying on Rogan’s podcast that he lost the 2020 presidential election. Democrat Joe Biden won that year.

Ocasio-Cortez during the livestream also showed viewers her farm on the cozy, indie game Stardew Valley. Walz said the game reminded him of Minnesota: “You’ve got mining,” he said. “You’ve got agriculture. You’ve got snow.”

Before Walz headed out to a rally in Nevada, he pleaded with viewers to vote. More than 12,000 viewers tuned into the livestream on Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitch channel. More watched from Harris’ channel.



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Trump’s Madison Square Garden event turns into a rally with crude and racist insults

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”Hey guys, they’re now scrambling and trying to call us Nazis and fascists,” said Alina Habba, one of Trump’s attorneys, who draped a sparkly ”MAGA” jacket over the lectern as she spoke. ”And you know what they’re claiming, guys? It’s very scary. They’re claiming we’re going to go after them and try and put them in jail. Well, ain’t that rich?”

Declared Hogan in his characteristic raspy growl: ”I don’t see no stinkin’ Nazis in here.”

Trump has denounced the four criminal indictments brought against him as politically motivated. He has ramped up his denunciations in recent weeks of ”enemies from within,” naming domestic political rivals, and suggested he would use the military to go after them. Harris, in turn, has called Trump a ”fascist.”

The arena was full hours before Trump was scheduled to speak. Outside the arena, the sidewalks were overflowing with Trump supporters in red ”Make America Great Again” hats. There was a heavy security presence. Streets were blocked off and access to Penn Station was restricted.

In the crowd was Philip D’Agostino, a longtime Trump backer from Queens, the borough where Trump grew up. The 64-year-old said it was appropriate for Trump to be speaking at a place bills itself as ”the world’s most famous arena.”

”It just goes to show ya that he has a bigger following of any man that has ever lived,” D’Agostino said.



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