Posted: 8/21/02

FL boy, 12, faces assault charge

Cliff Buchan
News Editor

Assault charges are being considered this week against a 12-year-old Forest Lake boy after an incident with another juvenile here on Monday.

Police said the boy is accused of assaulting a second boy with a knife and a concrete stone and threatening to get a gun and kill the boy. The incident took place in the 400 block of SE 8th Ave. at 5 p.m.

Sgt. Mike Aschenbrener said the dispute involved an argument over which boy had the better bicycle.

The police officer said the two boys argued before the 12-year-old went home and took a nine-inch butcher knife from the kitchen and returned to the scene. In the second phase of the dispute, the 12-year-old threw a softball sized concrete stone striking the 14-year-old boy and cutting his arm.

Six other neighborhood kids were witnesses to the incident, police said.

The boy was apprehended later and taken to the Washington County Jail in Stillwater where he is being held in the juvenile section, police said. Charges of second degree assault are pending, the officer said.

Aschenbrener said the incident on Monday was the second time police have dealt with the boy this summer regarding a felony incident.

Arson investigated

Fire and police personnel in Forest Lake are investigating two fires early Friday morning as arson.

Firefighters were called to Sharewood Community Forest Playground between Forest Lake and Forest View elementary schools at 2:45 a.m. where wooden playground had been set on fire. Damaged was described as minor.

A second fire was reported at a new home site at 5898 N. 212th St. at 6 a.m. the same morning. A blaze had been set in the floor of the dwelling and was found and extinguished by construction workers arriving to work on Friday.

The fires are believed connected, officers said.

Other crimes

In other crime news, police here:

ïAre investigating with Washington County officers a report of a man allegedly growing potted marijuana plants in the garage at his apartment unit in the 1000 block of SW 7th Ave.

ïReceived a report of an attempted burglary at Wendyís, 22790 Everton Ave. N. sometime overnight Sunday. Entry was not gained.

ïAssisted at a one-car rollover on the Clear Lake frontage road at 3:45 p.m. Monday. The car was registered to a St. Paul man. No one was found at the scene. Speed is believed a factor in the crash

ïAssisted at two personal injury crashes at the junction of US-61 and US-8 where new stop signs on US-61 continue to cause problems for motorists who do not see the signs.

ïTicketed and released two Rush City juveniles for disorderly conduct after the pair tried to intercede during a drug arrest at McDonaldís, 1244 W. Broadway Ave. at 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 14. Officers from the West Metro Drug Task Force and the Anoka County Sheriffís Office were taking two men into custody when the two Rush City men became involved in the incident and refused to leave the scene after being directed by the two officers.

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