Suspect Arrested in Inver Grove Heights Homicide

INVER GROVE HEIGHTS (AP) -- Police in a Twin Cities area city say they have made an arrest in the homicide of a man whose body was found in a snowbank.

Officers were dispatched to a neighborhood in Inver Grove Heights about 8 a.m. Monday on reports of a suspicious incident. They found 39-year-old Bryant Jon Lutgens, of Burnsville, laying in the snowbank. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

On Wednesday, police put out an alert on a vehicle they said was connected to the homicide.

That vehicle was later spotted in Minneapolis, where police initiated a traffic stop and arrested a 42-year-old Richfield man.