Menard’s Security Guard Gets 3.5 Yrs Jail + Restitution for Off-Duty Crimes
Minneapolis MN May 10 2021 A St. Paul man has been sentenced to prison and $12 million restitution for arson of Minneapolis’ Third Precinct
Branden M. Wolfe of St. Paul also stole police weapons and other gear during last summer’s riots in Minneapolis.
The St. Paul man, who was a security agent for Menard’s, was sentenced this week to 3½ years in prison and ordered to pay $12 million in restitution.
While others set a fire, Wolfe rolled a barrel into the police station with “the intent to accelerate” the blaze, according to court records. He also entered the building and stole a police vest, duty belt, handcuffs, earpiece, baton, knife, riot helmet, pistol magazine, police radio, police overdose kit, uniform name plates and ammunition, according to prosecutors.
Wolfe was arrested at his security job at Menards wearing the police security vest a week after the riots. He pleaded guilty in December in U.S. District Court in Minnesota to one count of conspiracy to commit arson.
One of Wolfe’s co-conspirators, Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, 23, was sentenced last week to four years in prison and $12 million in restitution. Two other men, Bryce Michael Williams, 27, and Davon De-Andre Turner, 25, have pleaded guilty to taking part in setting the police station on fire, and have not yet been sentenced.
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