theft

A Pequot Lakes teacher has been charged with six felonies in Crow Wing County in the theft of $34,000 from a teachers' union fund.

St. Cloud Police are investigating a pair of cafeteria change machine thefts where the suspect posed as a repairman. Police say the suspect is described as a white man in his 30's or 40's, about 5-feet-8 to six feet tall, clean cut and with a heavier build. Police say he walked into a business in south St. Cloud near the Skatin' Place in south St. Cloud and took change from the machine Thursday evening.

St. Cloud Police arrested a Sauk Rapids man today after surveillance cameras caught him stealing a compressed air dryer from a business parking lot. Police were called to the El-Jay Plumbing business along Apollo Avenue Northeast and got the vehicle make, model and license plate from the cameras.

Three people have been arrested for allegedly breaking into vending machines at the I-94 rest areas. An alert motorist called the Stearns County Sheriff's Department just before 3:00 a.m. this (Thursday) morning, after they had stopped at the rest area near Avon.

Two men are accused of robbing an Inver Grove Heights man and attacking him with a battle ax. Twenty-two-year-old Jacob Anhalt and 31-year-old Randy Knight, both of Inver Grove Heights, are charged with burglary, aggravated robbery and theft.