Brown County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Derek Shaw was promoted to the rank of Sergeant Tuesday 7/7. Sgt Shaw has been with the Brown County Sheriff’s Office since 2002.
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Sleepy Eye Police Received a call from Krenz Real Estate at 8:40 a.m. Friday 6/26 about a box of military items donated that included two hand grenades. Police called the Bloomington Bomb Squad to come and inspect the hand grenades. The bomb squad said the grenade fuses, caps and blasting powder were removed so they were safe.
The Sleepy Eye Fire Department responded to a garbage truck fire at 4:52 p.m. Sunday 6/21. The truck was owned by River View Sanitation and located near their new facility on the south end of Seneca property (former Del Monte Farm Shop).
No one was injured. The front end of the truck was destroyed.
Police said the cause of the fire was not known.
Sleepy Eye Police Dept. Press Release
On June 11th, 2020, the Sleepy Eye Police Department received information from a concerned citizen regarding a threatening Facebook post directed at the media and persons of color. The Sleepy Eye Police Department investigated this information and arrested Michael Allen Geisler (DOB: 07/01/1986) for Threats of Violence. Mr. Geisler is currently being held in Brown County Jail.
