North East Twin Cities Scanner Recordings

This morning around 3:30 multiple calls were received for a fully engulfed house fire on Little Bluestem Trail in Lake Elmo.  Stillwater and Bayport provided mutual aid.  

On this day in 2005 St Paul Police Officer Gerald Vick was working an undercover detail on St Paul's east side when he was shot and killed after a confrontation with two people.  This is some audio I recorded from the manhunt that followed.  Of note is that this was before St Paul had switched to a digital radio system so it sounds much different than today.  

Audio from an early morning chase in the south west metro

You may have seen posts  about aircraft (https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=~2a89ee) circling the area.  This evening it identifies as Troy049 on ATC and say to be a Cessna 206.  A google search links that callsign to the CPB. That's not confirmed those so take it as it is

Around 5:15 this evening Ramsey County aired a pick up and hold for a suspect wanted on a felony domestic assault warrant who was thought to be on Hoffman Road in White Bear Lake.  After realizing he had been being spotted he fled on foot.

Around 12:30 AM Oakdale was called to the Hampton Inn for a verbal dispute in one of their rooms.  When they arrived a male fled in a Monte Carlo leading officers on a chase at speeds up to 120MPH.

Shortly after 11pm a call was received for a garage fire on Xingu Street in Columbus.  When crews arrived they found the garage to be fully involved.  Lino Lakes and Wyoming provided mutual aid. 

Around 12:40pm a call was received for fire in a multi unit residential building on Pondview Court in Vadnais Heights.  When Sheriffs deputies arrived they reported fire on a second story porch.  Little Canada, Lake Johanna, Maplewood and White Bear Lake provided mutual aid.  

Around 7:20am a call was received for flames in a basement on Labore Road in Little Canada.  When crews arrived they found fire in the basement. 

Audio from a chase shortly after midnight of an Acura with stolen plates between Lake Crystal and Madelia.  

Around 11:40 a call was received for a house fire on Lake Drive in Columbus.  When crews arrived the house was fully engulfed.  Responding departments: Hugo, Forest Lake, Lino Lakes.  Wyoming sent and engine to Forest Lake to standby at their station. 

This morning around 7:45 a silver Mustang led police on a wild chase around central Ramsey County eventually crashing.  The driver was known to be armed and dangerous and has a history of fleeing.  They were also apparently involved in an earlier chase in Anoka County.  

This morning a taxi was stolen and followed by GPS for awhile before police began a chase.  The driver ran over a pedestrian, rammed squad cars, went the wrong way on one way roads, went up on sidewalks, and eventually went into the ramp of the Federal Building

Learn geography from a chase: Quamba is a small town (pop 127) on MN 23 in Kanabec County.  Originally called mud creek after a creek which flows through but was changed to Quamba once a depot on the Great Northern Railroad was built.  The city is 0.72 square miles in size.

Around 11am February 23, 2006 a male was thought to be be in a home with a gun near Highland and Spruce in White Bear Lake.  He was eventually located elsewhere, but not before people had been evacuated from their homes. This was also in the days before Ramsey county went to the digital system so the audio will sound different than what you may be used to.  

This afternoon around 3:20 in Oakdale there was a road rage incident in which one vehicle allegedly shot at another vehicle.  Multiple accidents resulted from the incident. 

-Person call 911 to report package theft -Person gives vehicle description from Ring doorbell -Vehicle spotted by Sheriff Deputy short time later -Vehicle stopped

Shortly after 10 this morning a person stole a squad car and led officers on a wild chase ramming other squad cars and yelling on the radio.  

Around 9pm last night while officers were investigating a 911 call they spotted another vehicle arrive.  A male got out of the car and threw a gun under the car and ran into a house.  Shortly later the suspect emerged from the house and ran.  The police established a perimeter and began searching for the suspect

This morning around 11:50 two people were stabbed on 7th Ave in North St Paul.  The suspect was quickly apprehended after being tased and an officer was somehow sprayed in the face with some sort of irritant.