Cliff Buchan
News Editor

Police in Forest Lake may have found a clue to at least one ATM theft, but arenít sure which theft.

A citizen reported to police finding a cash cassette from an ATM in the northwest corner of the Lakeside Memorial Park swimming beach on Aug. 31. Chief of Police Clark Quiring said he is not sure if the cassette is linked to two recent thefts in Forest Lake.

The cassette was marked ìSnyder Drug Valley NE.î

Quiring said police would be investigating a serial number also found on the cash cassette to help pinpoint where it was from.

During August, an ATM was stolen from the Old Log Cabin restaurant on TH-97 and a machine was pried open at Upperdeck Grill and Bar just to the west of the swimming beach.

In both cases, an undisclosed amount of cash was likely stolen, the chief said.

Man arrested

A random patrol of the I-35 Rest Area on Sept. 1 led to a felony arrest for city police.

An officer on patrol at 3:10 p.m. ran a routine license plate check of a vehicle parked at the Rest Area. The vehicle came back stolen from an address in Hopkins.

At the scene, police arrested Paul Jin-Hee Swanson, 32, of Medford on an outstanding felony warrant and a felony probable cause charge of possession of stolen property.

He was booked and held at the Washington County Jail in Stillwater.

Bits and Pieces

In other routine business for officers during the past week, police here:

ïParticipated in a series of Safe & Sober saturation patrols where three drunk driving tickets were issued and a number of speeding and no seat beat violations were also cited.

ïResponded to a series of vandalism and property damage calls, including a report of a broken window at Kodiak Coffee, 44 S. Lake St., and a report of a vehicle with a smashed windshield in the parking lot at ERA Muske Co. Real Estate, 920 W. Broadway Ave.

ïAnswered several public complaints for loud parties and noise.

ïIssued more than a dozen overnight parking tickets for vehicles left on city streets between 2-6 a.m. which is prohibited under city statutes.

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