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Minnesota state employee who allegedly caused over $20K in damages to Teslas is let off by woke DA — as cops slam deal
A progressive district attorney has declined to charge a Tim Walz state employee allegedly caught causing $20,000 damage by vandalizing half a dozen Teslas — a decision ripped by the “frustrated” local police chief.
Despite what police believe to be evidence of Adams committing felonies, Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty will seek diversion rather than criminal charges.
The suspected vandal, 33-year-old Minnesota government employee Dylan Bryan Adams, was allegedly [filmed, actually — Ed] spotted keying the vehicles and stripping their paint off while out walking his dog around the city.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at the time of the incident that the damage in each case was the equivalent of a felony.
The chief said in a scathing statement on Monday that Moriarty’s decision not to bring charges is frustrating for his officers and the public.
“The Minneapolis Police Department did its job. It identified and investigated a crime trend, identified, and arrested a suspect, and presented a case file to the Hennepin County Attorney Office for consideration of charges,” he told KARE in a statement.
“This case impacted at least six different victims and totaled over $20,000 in damages. Any frustration related to the charging decision of the Hennepin County Attorney should be directed solely at her office.
“Our investigators are always frustrated when the cases they poured their hearts into are declined. In my experience, the victims in these cases often feel the same,” O’Hara said in a statement.
Moriarty has been Hennepin County’s top prosecutor since January 2023, but quickly came under fire for her woke policies that allowed accused rapists and killers to stay free.
During her very first week in office, she dropped the charges against a 35-year-old man accused of raping a teen girl due to attorney misconduct, CBS News reported at the time.
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Minneapolis’ progressive district attorney is under fire for her woke policies that allow accused rapists, pedophiles and killers to stay free — with even Minnesota’s George Soros-backed general attorney accusing her of taking it too far.
Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty, 59, took office in January promising to “deliver more safety and more justice” to the community.
Since then, however, she has horrified local families and officials by pushing for suspects in even the most serious crimes to get probation in an effort to keep them out of prison, according to the Star Tribune.
Veteran prosecutor Catherine Markey was only told moments before a plea hearing that the DA was only seeking probation for one of the teens involved in the 2019 carjacking that killed her son, Stephen Markey.
“It’s a trend definitely because of Mary Moriarty,” the former prosecutor told the paper of those accused of serious crimes getting slap-on-the-wrist deals.
“She’s still playing public defender — the only thing is, that’s not her role anymore,” Markey said of the city’s chief prosecutor.
Sherrice Barnett similarly recalled her horror at being told the teen charged with murdering her 27-year-old son, Derrell Freeman, would be spared a prison sentence.
“I couldn’t breathe,” she told the paper.
“I said, ‘I just got to get up out of here.’ I never would have imagined in a million years that it would have went that way.”
Another mom, Nancy Caspersen, recalled her disgust at the repeat offender charged with the third-degree murder of her daughter, Kailey — for selling her the pain pills laced with fentanyl that killed her in 2021 — getting probation and up to 240 days in jail instead of the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
“It ain’t fair. It’s not right. She’s my only child,” Caspersen tearfully told the Star Tribune.
“It makes me feel like she didn’t matter to these people.”
Moriarty faced outrage from her very first week in office, when she dropped the charges against a 35-year-old man accused of raping a teen girl due to attorney misconduct, CBS News reported at the time.
Moriarty said then that she was “deeply remorseful and apologetic” to the alleged victim, who endured taxing testimony before the charges were dismissed, the outlet noted.
However, critics suggest it was the start of a trend that has only escalated since — with some high-profile cases even taken off her hands.
In April, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reassigned the case against the alleged murderers of mother of one Zaria McKeever to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros, the Star Tribune explained.
McKeever, 23, was killed in 2022 by two teen brothers hired by her ex-boyfriend, the outlet said.
While prosecutors initially wanted to try both boys as adults, they were offered probationary deals in exchange for testimony against McKeever’s ex.
The controversial arrangement prompted Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Leah Erickson to remove herself from the case, then leave the office entirely, the Star Tribune reported at the time.
Ellison called Moriarty’s approach to the McKeever case “disproportionate to the seriousness of the crime” in a statement shortly after the case was reassigned.
“While I share the belief that too many juveniles are involved in the adult criminal justice system, accountability for the seriousness of this crime has been missing in this case,” he wrote.
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Similarly, the case of a 15-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by a relative for three years prompted prosecutor Raina Urton to remove herself from the case after the new administration pushed her to seek probation instead of prison for the defendant, the outlet said.
“She walked away because she knows what happened was wrong,” the teen’s mother said of Urton.
“She was fighting for us. She was fighting for our daughter.”
Stephen Markey’s parents — who were flabbergasted when Husayn Braveheart, one of the teens accused of gunning down the 39-year-old paralegal four years ago, was offered probation after the first got 22 years behind bars — asked Ellison to take over their son’s case.
Ellison, however, announced last week that he would not intervene.
…. The former chief public defender is illustrative of the new brand of progressive prosecutor intent on dismantling the various injustices within mass incarceration and criminal justice, City University of New York School of Law professor Steve Zeidman told the Star Tribune.
“You’re seen as being overly lenient as opposed to trying to correct past wrongs,” he said of Moriarty and her peers.
