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Her trash, their bin - can't make bail, go to jail
Charge dropped after eight days behind bars in Anoka County, but Blaine mom not home-free yet
BY DAVE ORRICK
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 04/19/2007 11:55:46 PM CDT


A piece of trash tossed into someone else's garbage more than a year ago left Kelly Arne sitting in the Anoka County jail for eight days.

The 29-year-old Blaine mother of two was arrested April 12 on a year-old warrant for tossing garbage into a recycling bin without permission. Without the $300 to make bail, Arne sat behind bars. Her cellmates dubbed her the "garbage lady."

"Every day when the guards bring the new prisoners in, people would say, 'So you're the garbage lady. I heard about you. You're still here?' "

"I'm the laughingstock of Anoka County," a laughing Arne said during an interview Thursday in a county jail holding cell.

That day, Blaine city prosecutor Joe Murphy had dropped the charge against Arne, a "recycle/refuse violation," for allegedly throwing out her garbage in a nearby cafe's recycling bin without the diner's permission in 2005.

"I don't know to this day what they're talking about," Arne said. "This whole thing's been crazy."

Police, though, say Arne is familiar to them. And she might not have had to do the time if she had obeyed a summons last year.

"Let's say, she's a frequent flier," Blaine Police Chief Dave Johnson said.

Arne has never been convicted of a felony in Minnesota, but a theft case against her is pending, and she faces a felony drug charge in Scott County.

For her part, Arne said she has a clean record.

Even though she's in the clear in Anoka County, Arne wasn't allowed to go home Tuesday.
She was scheduled to be transferred to Scott County, where she must answer to a warrant for felony marijuana possession.
"It's a case of mistaken identity," Arne said of the Scott County charge.

The garbage saga started Dec. 29, 2005, when a worker at Suzanne's Cafe in Blaine complained to police that "a large amount of her (Arne's) trash" was found in the cafe's recycling bin, police chief Johnson said.

Details on ordinance violation reports are often hard to come by, and Johnson couldn't determine Thursday how it was that the trash was linked to Arne or what exactly was in the trash. The cafe was on University Avenue, about a block away from Arne's rental home on Butternut Street.

"Maybe my mail blew over there in the wind. I really don't know," Arne said. "My landlord paid for garbage pickup. Why would I want to throw my garbage away somewhere else?"

Owners of the cafe could not be reached for comment. Suzanne's is no longer in business, and a diner of a different name now operates at that location.

Arne was mailed a ticket in 2006, and police reports indicate that at some point she agreed to pay for the garbage removal, Johnson said.

But she never did, and in January, a warrant was issued for her arrest. Then last week, she was pulled over for a traffic violation in a friend's vehicle. The officer ran a check on her name, and hours later she was standing in front of Judge Spencer J. Sokolowski in Anoka County District Court. "Right at the end, he said, 'Bail $300,' " Arne said. "I didn't have a chance to tell anyone I couldn't make that."

On Thursday, public defense attorney Lis Carlson, who handles Blaine ordinance violations, realized Arne was about to spend her eighth night in jail. "For this type of offense, that's ridiculous," Carlson said. "When I told the prosecutor, he was concerned, too, and I'm glad he did the right thing by dismissing the charge."

Technically, Arne's charge carries a maximum penalty of $1,000 and 90 days in jail, but that would be an extreme. And Johnson said he was surprised Arne had spent even a few nights locked up.

"For this type of violation," he said, "she's probably spent enough time in custody."

Dave Orrick can be reached at dorrick@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-2171.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this about the TASH that runs government.
Maybe a house after the police Trashed it.

7:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was suprised to hear it was Anoka Councty! I thought it was St Paul until I read the story a little closer.

1:28 PM  
Blogger Sharon4Anderson said...

Point of information www.co.anoka.mn.us click on public safety Bob Johnson(NOTYOU)
rs-attorney@co.anoka.mn.us e-mail
1. The Nonfeasance to handle the www.minnesota-murders.blogspot.com
ie: Barb Winn v Aaron Foster.
2. 1998 the Bribe www.billdahn.com nonfeasance by Anoka Co. Attorneys www.lesliedavis.org

3. over 20 years of Committment www.lufsky.blogspot.com unabated still at St. Peter Hospital, costing millions.
4. Now the Trash Lady : costing the taxpayers more than the Trash
8th Amend. Cruel,Unusual Punishment.
WE THE PEOPLE MUST ELIMINATE 87 COUNTY ATTORNEYS, HAVE Lory Swanson www.ag.state.mn.us be in charge of 10 District Attorneys to effect speedy Justice. Anoka Co. Attorneys are derelict in their tax-supported employment.

5. City Attorneys are Union/Civil Service:?
www.code-corruption.blogspot.com

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