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St. Paul man steals car in the midst of driver’s sobriety test, police say
St. Paul police say a man stole a car while its owner was taking field sobriety tests during a traffic stop, then arrested later the same night.
The suspect has been identified as Kyle Stuart Vanwert, 39. He is also facing burglary charges from a case in April.
The incident began just after 6 p.m. on Sunday, when St. Paul police pulled a car over in the 800 block of West 7th Street on suspicion of drunk driving. While the woman was undergoing field sobriety tests with police, a man “suddenly” jumped into the car and drove off with it, St. Paul Police Sgt. Mike Ernster said.
The owner told police she had an AirTag tracking device inside the car. Officers from multiple police agencies were alerted to help locate the vehicle, Ernster said. Richfield and Bloomington police officers located the vehicle in Richfield near the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and 77th Street.
The officers arrested Vanwert, and Ernster said police identified him as the man who took the vehicle on 7th Street. He was booked into Ramsey County Jail and remained there on Monday.
The woman whose car was stolen was found to not be driving over the legal limit for alcohol concentration and her vehicle was returned to her, Ernster said.
On April 24, Vanwert was charged with first-degree burglary, after charges say he caused property damage to a fifth-floor apartment at the Dorothy Day Residence complex, where Vanwert lived. He was accused of breaking into another resident’s apartment with a hammer. His attorney for the burglary case did not return requests for comment Monday.
Vanwert was issued a conditional release on Sept. 10, after posting $10,000 bail. The release was granted on the requirement that Vanwert be transferred to in an in-patient treatment facility.
NEW YORK — Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader and fallen idol who undermined his historic achievements and Hall of Fame dreams by gambling on the game he loved and once embodied, has died. He was 83.
Stephanie Wheatley, a spokesperson for Clark County in Nevada, confirmed on behalf of the medical examiner that Rose died Monday. Wheatley said his cause and manner of death had not yet been determined.
For fans who came of age in the 1960s and ‘70s, no player was more exciting than the Cincinnati Reds’ No. 14, ”Charlie Hustle,” the brash superstar with the shaggy hair, puggish nose and muscular forearms. At the dawn of artificial surfaces, divisional play and free agency, Rose was old school, a conscious throwback to baseball’s early days. Millions could never forget him crouched and scowling at the plate, running full speed to first even after drawing a walk, or sprinting for the next base and diving headfirst into the bag.
A 17-time All-Star, the switch-hitting Rose played on three World Series winners. He was the National League MVP in 1973 and World Series MVP two years later. He holds the major league record for games played (3,562) and plate appearances (15,890) and the NL record for the longest hitting streak (44). He was the leadoff man for one of baseball’s most formidable lineups with the Reds’ championship teams of 1975 and 1976, with teammates that included Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Tony Perez and Joe Morgan.
But no milestone approached his 4,256 hits, breaking his hero Ty Cobb’s 4,191 and signifying his excellence no matter the notoriety which followed. It was a total so extraordinary that you could average 200 hits for 20 years and still come up short. Rose’s secret was consistency, and longevity. Over 24 seasons, all but six played entirely with the Reds, Rose had 200 hits or more 10 times, and more than 180 four other times. He batted .303 overall, even while switching from second base to outfield to third to first, and he led the league in hits seven times.
”Every summer, three things are going to happen,” Rose liked to say, ”the grass is going to get green, the weather is going to get hot, and Pete Rose is going to get 200 hits and bat .300.”
Rose was Rookie of the Year in 1963, but he started off 0 for 12 with three walks and a hit by pitch before getting his first major league hit, an eighth-inning triple off Pittsburgh’s Bob Friend. It came in Cincinnati on April 13, 1963, the day before Rose’s 22nd birthday. He reached 1,000 in 1968, 2,000 just five years later and 3,000 just five years after that.
He moved into second place, ahead of Hank Aaron, with hit No. 3,772, in 1982. No. 4,000 was off the Phillies’ Jerry Koosman in 1984, exactly 21 years to the day after his first hit. He caught up with Cobb on Sept. 8, 1985, and surpassed him three days later, in Cincinnati, with Rose’s mother and teenage son, Pete Jr., among those in attendance.
DULUTH — A 19-year-old Duluth man who fatally shot his childhood friend during a July 2022 argument in the Endion neighborhood was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison Tuesday in St. Louis County Court.
According to court documents, witnesses said that Aubid-St. Clair went to Young’s apartment to fight. Young came outside and had his hand in a cross-body pack slung across his chest and shoulder. After Aubid-St. Clair said Young’s gun wasn’t real, Young racked the slide and shot him in the face from about 10 feet away. The victim dropped to the sidewalk and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Young, who turned himself in, claimed self-defense.
“I felt threatened,” Young reportedly told arresting officers. “He was saying I was a snitch and all that. I didn’t know what to do.”
In an obituary for Aubid-St. Clair, his family said they would miss his smile.
A pilot landed a plane on a highway north of St. Cloud on Monday afternoon after the engine failed, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.
The State Patrol responded to the emergency landing around 1:30 p.m., when the small private plane touched down on Hwy. 27 between Little Falls and Pierz in Morrison County, Sgt. Jesse Grabow said in a social media post.
An initial report found that the engine failed and that the pilot, the lone occupant, decided to land it on the highway, Grabow said. Once the airplane landed, the pilot steered it into a ditch to avoid traffic, Grabow said. A photo posted by Grabow showed the right wing sustained some damage, and that it came to a stop in a grassy area.
There were no injuries and the incident remains under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration.
