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School playground incident from June results in criminal sex felony charge
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008
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Cliff Buchan
News Editor
A school playground incident in Forest Lake last summer has resulted in a criminal sexual conduct charge against a Forest Lake man.
Police in Forest Lake have charged Anthony Steven Knauff, 20, of 1006 SW 12th St., with felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a victim under the age of 13.
Chief of Police Clark Quiring said the matter was reported to city police on June 12 and related to an incident that took place at Sharewood Forest Community Playground, 408 SW 4th St.
He said Knauff is accused of inappropriate actions involving a female who met him at the playground. Police believe multiple incidents between the man and the juvenile took place, Quiring said.
The incident took place shortly before Sharewood Forest was demolished and replaced by a new school playground. The playground is located between Forest Lake and Forest View elementary schools.
Man sentenced
A Forest Lake man who had lived in Staples before home to Forest Lake has been sentenced for failure to register as a sex offender.
James John Jelinek, 29, was sentenced in Washington County District Court on October 1 to serve one year and one day in jail, with the execution of sentence stayed.
Jelinek was placed on probation for up to five years on following conditions: 1) Serve 270 days (nine months) in jail, with credit for one day, sentence to be served on electric home monitoring; 2) pay $500 fine; 3) gain and maintain full-time employment; 4) cooperate and comply with the conditions of the Washington County Sex Offender Supervision Unit; 5) provide a biological specimen for the purposes of DNA analysis (completed); 6) cooperate and comply with Predatory Offender Registration; 7) no same or similar offenses and remain law abiding.
Quiring said the violation took place when Jelinek left Forest Lake for work on a consturction job and failed to notifiy authorities as required.
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