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Suspect jailed in classic car buff’s hit-and-run death in Minneapolis also accused of dragging cop
A 27-year-old man has been arrested on accusations that he killed another motorist in a hit-and-run crash last month in north Minneapolis and weeks later dragged a police officer trying to arrest him for driving with stolen license plates.
Presley A. Peltier, of Minneapolis, was apprehended Wednesday morning and remains jailed pending charges in connection with the July 18 collision at the corner of Washington and N. 22nd avenues that killed 55-year-old Andrew W. Hyde, who was riding in his cherished 1964 Chevy Impala convertible at the time.
Peltier is also awaiting charges stemming from the dragging incident about 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the 3600 block of E. 42nd Street, where he lives. His arrest occurred near E. 57th Street and Standish Avenue, according to police records, where he was found with a stolen Ford sedan.
“The efforts of investigators, patrol officers and community members to track and take this dangerous individual off the street is a prime example of this department’s determination and commitment to the people of this city and how together, we can make our city safer,” Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in a statement announcing the arrest.
“I am again thankful that our officer was not more seriously injured by Mr. Peltier’s actions,” O’Hara continued, “and I hope this arrest can lead to justice being served — and some closure — for Mr. Hyde’s family after his tragic death.”
Two days after the collision and close to the crash scene, a fleet of motorcycles and classic cars lined the sides of N. 21st Avenue, as friends and family mourned the Robbinsdale man’s death. Some were crying as they hugged each other, with many holding balloons released soon after.
Not long before his death, Hyde was showing another of his classic cars in an auto show. Hyde’s friend Sherman Webster said Hyde was always driving around in his prized cars.
“He was real proud; one of the cars he had won a trophy,” Webster said.
According to police:
Officers have been on the lookout for Peltier since the deadly crash. On Saturday, they were alerted to a suspicious vehicle in the 3600 block of E. 42nd Street with someone slumped over in the driver’s seat. The officers soon determined the plates on the car were stolen, and they told Peltier he was under arrest.
“He immediately began to struggle with officers, placed the car in drive and rapidly accelerated the vehicle forward with one officer partially trapped inside the open driver’s door, dragging the officer a short distance until the vehicle rammed into a support pillar of the entryway of a nearby structure,” a police statement read.
“As the vehicle then reversed,” the statement continued, “the officer was able to extricate himself and rolled away from the vehicle avoiding being run over as the vehicle fled.”
Officers, including the one who was injured, gave chase but lost sight of the vehicle. The injured officer went to HCMC for treatment of minor injuries.
“After near misses over the past couple of days,” the statement continued, officers learned that Peltier was in south Minneapolis on Tuesday near S. Hiawatha Avenue and E. 36th Street. He drove off when officers attempted to stop him.
Officers soon located the vehicle and Peltier on foot near E. 57th and Standish. He was arrested, taken by emergency medical responders to HCMC after he said he ingested narcotics. He was booked into jail Wednesday night upon his release from the hospital.
Court records in Hennepin County show Peltier has convictions for assault, burglary and theft. He also has cases pending charging him with theft and drugs.
Staff writer Louis Krauss contributed to this report.
“I honestly think he used to understand how tariffs work,” Cuban said. “Back in the 90s and early 2000s, he was a little bit coherent when he talked about trade policy and he actually made a little bit of sense. But I don’t know what happened to him.”
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“If you are a business, and you rely on foreign slave labor at $3 a day, the only way to rebuild American manufacturing is to say, if you want to bring that product made by slave labor back into the United States of America, you’re going to pay a big fat tariff before you get it back into our country,” Vance said.
Back in Wisconsin, Amara Marshell, freshman at UW-La Crosse, said she showed up to support Harris because she is concerned about what a second Trump presidency could mean for reproductive rights. Like her friend, sophomore Avery Black, Marshell is also excited about the possibility of electing the nation’s first female president.
“Women deserve to have power over their own bodies,” Marshell said. “We shouldn’t have to not be able to get an abortion just because of a president.”
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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will auction off state lands in popular northern counties next month.
The public land — in Aitkin, Cook, Itasca, and St. Louis counties — will go up for sale during the Department of Natural Resource’s annual online public land sale from Nov. 7 to 21.
“These rural and lakeshore properties may appeal to adjacent landowners or offer recreational opportunities such as space for a small cabin or camping,” the DNR said in a statement.
Properties will be available for bidding Nov. 7 through Nov. 21.
This all can trim for print: The properties include:
40 acres in Aitkin County, with a minimum bid of $85,000
44 acres in Cook County, minimum bid $138,000
1.9 acres in Itasca County, minimum bid $114,000
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This week, Minneapolis City Council members have expressed frustration that four years after the protests culminated in a fire at the police station, the charred building still stands and has become a “prop” some conservatives use to rail against city leadership. Most recently, GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance made a stop outside the building and criticized Gov. Tim Walz’s handling of the 2020 riots.
On Thursday, the council voted 8-3 to approve a resolution calling for “immediate cleanup, remediation, and beautification of the 3000 Minnehaha site including but not limited to the removal of fencing, jersey barriers, barbed wire, and all other exterior blight.”
Council Member Robin Wonsley said the city needs to acknowledge that many police officers stationed in the Third Precinct “waged racist and violent actions” against residents for decades.
Council Member Aurin Chowdhury said the council wants the building cleaned up and beautified “immediately.”
“We cannot allow for this corner to be a backdrop for those who wish to manipulate the trauma of our city for political gain,” Chowdhury said.
Council Member Katie Cashman said the council shouldn’t be divided by “right-wing figures posing in front of the Third Precinct and pandering to conservative interests.”
“It’s really important for us to stay united in our goal, to achieve rehabilitation of this site in a way that advances racial healing and acknowledgement of the past trauma in this community, and to not let those figures divide us here,” she said.
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