Charging documents released Tuesday say Sen. Nicole Mitchell claimed she was "just trying to get some of my dad’s things" while allegedly breaking into a house in Becker County. Mitchell, a Democratic senator representing Woodbury, Minnesota, was arrested Monday for a reported burglary. Court records say police responded to a house in Detroit Lakes around 4:45 a.m. and located Mitchell in the basement dressed in all black with a flashlight covered in a black sock nearby. Sen. Mitchell told... Read this story
