MINNEAPOLIS — The Hennepin County Attorney's Office announced Wednesday that additional criminal charges have been filed against Jory Wiebrand, the Ham Lake man suspected in a series of sexual assaults and burglaries in a Minneapolis neighborhood near the U of M, as well as in Anoka County.
Wiebrand is now charged in a total of 13 cases between March 2015 and March 2020. The charges range from burglary and harassment to criminal sexual conduct.
"We don’t see a whole lot of these kinds of cases thankfully because this doesn’t normally occur, or we are able to solve them quickly," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a news conference.
Freeman said investigators caught up to the suspect because he left a fingerprint on a piece of glass at a scene where he was allegedly attempting to break in. Freeman said the fingerprint matched one that police had on file.
"This is the sort of stuff that scares all of us," Freeman said. "He’s off the streets, we’ve not seen this kind of case occur again since he’s been in custody and we will do the best we know how as prosecutors to convict him."
The cases listed by the Hennepin County Attorney include:
March 1, 2020: Charged with attempted first-degree criminal sexual conduct, criminal predatory conduct, and false imprisonment.
February 18, 2020: Charged with attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct, criminal predatory conduct, and false imprisonment.
January 3, 2020: Charged with harassment and invasion of privacy.
September 12, 2019: Charged with attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct, criminal predatory conduct, and false imprisonment.
June 2, 2019: Charged with first-degree burglary and criminal predatory conduct.
August 7, 2019: Charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree burglary assault.
July 18, 2019: Charged with attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct, criminal predatory conduct, and false imprisonment.
May 1, 2019 – November 20, 2019: Charged with harassment.
February 8, 2019: Charged with attempted first-degree criminal sexual conduct, second degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping.
August 4, 2018: Charged with first-degree and second degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree burglary.
February 25, 2018: Charged with first-degree and second degree criminal sexual conduct.
February 24, 2018: Charged with first-degree burglary.
March 23, 2015: Charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
