This week in our "Behind the Scenes" series on WJON, we gear up and storm a house with the Stearns and Benton County SWAT Team. For the Stearns and Benton County SWAT Team practice makes perfect.
The Stearns and Benton County SWAT team will be holding training drills tomorrow (Wednesday). The training will be held at 200 8th Avenue North in Sauk Rapids.
A State Patrol Helicopter and area SWAT team were called out Friday morning in Benton County, after a report of a suicidal man with a rifle. The Benton County Sheriff's Office says the incident happened at about 1:00 a.m. at a home on 85th Avenue Northeast in Gilmanton Township.
A man with multiple felony warrants was arrested in Buckman last night (Wednesday). The incident happened just after 10:00 p.m. at 26935 93rd Street in Buckman. Morrison County Sheriff Shawn Larsen says they received a report of an unwanted man making threatening comments who was inside the home with a long gun.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating an officer-involved shooting that left a man dead at a trailer park in St. Anthony Village.
A SWAT team and other law enforcement officials have responded to a report of shots fired at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota.
The St. Cloud Police Department's SWAT Team helped the Sherburne County Sheriff's Department in executing a search warrant at a home in the 1400 Block of 10th Avenue South in St. Cloud.
The St. Cloud Police Department's SWAT team unveiled their new armored vehicle this (Monday) morning. The MRAP, which stands for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected, comes from the Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management Department.