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Robber in four-year-old bank case sentenced

Photo courtesy of Forest Lake Police DepartmentSurveillance footage from 2013 captured a then-unidentified woman (later revealed to be Brianna Rice) running from the Forest Lake Cub Foods after robbing the TCF Bank inside.
The resolution to a four-year-old bank robbery in Forest Lake was reached Aug. 10, when Brianna Nicole Rice, 31, of New Richmond, Wisconsin, was sentenced for second-degree robbery in Washington County Court. Rice had remained unidentified after her robbery of the TCF Bank in Cub Foods for a few years until DNA evidence linked her to the crime.
According to court records, the robbery occurred on Oct. 2, 2013 around 1 p.m., when a then-unidentified woman approached the teller station and gave an employee a note reading, “Give me all the money in your drawer now! No dye packs or touching the silent alarm. No following me. Wait 3 minutes and call the police. I do have a gun,

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Donald A. Frenning

Donald A. Frenning, International Union of Operating Engineers, Age 89, of Chisago City, formerly of Stacy, passed away on September 1, 2017. Don was a U.S. Army Veteran of the Korean War, having earned several decorations. When he retired from St. Paul Public Works with his pension and his books, he sold their Stacy home to travel with his fun-loving, roller skating, musical spoons playing wife, Dottie. Preceded in death by parents, Olaf & Agnes (Waller) Frenning; siblings, Lawrence (Sis) Frenning, Margaret (Rodney) Nelson (Vern) Holmgren, Edna (John) Freed, Eleanor (Rodney) Shogren; Bob (Norma) Frenning; brother-in-law, Floyd Bellin. Survived by his beloved wife of 57 years, Dorothy “Dottie” (Lee); loving sister, Helen Bellin; sister-in-law, Kathy “Georgia Peach” Affolter. Don was also uncle extraordinaire to 26 nieces and nephews that he and Dottie claimed as their kids.
Funeral Service 2:00 p.m., Sunday, September 10, 2017 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 31075 Genesis

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