Cliff Buchan
News EditorKristen Ann Cole was sentenced to 36 months in prison last week in connection with the death of her husband during a domestic incident on US-8 near Forest Lake last August.
Chisago County District Court Judge James Dehn sentenced Cole, 41, on Monday, June 26 on one felony charge of criminal vehicular homicide resulting in death.
Dehn ordered Cole committed to the Commissioner of Corrections for 36 months. She is to be imprisoned for 24 months with 12 months of supervised release. She was granted credit for time served.
Cole was arrested and charged after a late night August incident on US-8 in Wyoming Township that took the life of her husband, Mark Allen Cole.
Mark Cole was passenger in a vehicle driven by his wife on Aug. 17 of last year.
According to police reports, Cole had left the vehicle and was walking along the shoulder of US-8 when he attempted to jump on the hood of the car driven by his wife. When Kristen Cole stopped the car, her husband flew off the vehicle striking his head on the pavement, according to official records.
On Oct 8, Cole entered a guilty plea to the one felony count. Three additional charges related to criminal vehicular operation were dismissed.
Snowmobile strikes
woman on lake
An Arden Hills woman received injuries Friday when she was struck by a snowmobile on the ice surface of Forest Lake. The snowmobile that hit the woman left the scene, Forest Lake police said this week.
The incident took place at 8 p.m. when Sheila Ennenga, 50 and a friend were star gazing using a telescope and star charts, police said. As the two women were occupied with their activities, two snowmobiles sped by and one struck Ennenga, police said.
Police said the two machines stopped momentarily but then drove off.
The woman was taken by her friend to the municipal park boat landing where she met police. She was taken by friends to Fairview Lakes Regional Medical Center in Wyoming with a possible broken or sprained wrist, police said.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is investigating the hit-and-run incident.
Other news
In other police news, a Lino Lakes man was arrested Monday after he was stopped by police. The man, 21, was taken to the county jail and booked on probable cause of felony attempted theft of a construction trailer and possession of burglary tools, a bolt cutter.
He was arrested shortly before 6 a.m. after Forest Lake police on patrol observed suspicious behavior at a new home construction site, 22060 Elston Ave. N. The man was stopped in a pickup at Evergreen and SW 19th St. and taken into custody, police said.
Police here are also investigating the theft of a 2000 model Cadillac Escalade. The vehicle was reported stolen overnight from 7711 North Shore Trail N. on Feb. 1.
Police are investigating the theft of $300 in lumber from a new home site at 4938 N. 210th St. on Jan. 31.
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