A federal fugitive stabbed a teenage employee of the Carver Fleet Farm
Last week at 2 p.m., Gerald Hudson, 31, of Kansas City, walked into the Fleet Farm in Carver and randomly attacked a teenage female employee, stabbing her in the neck, before fleeing the store and being arrested a short distance away.
According to Alpha News, video surveillance shows Hudson enter the store and walk by the female employee who was working in a merchandise aisle. Hudson got to the end of the aisle, looked both ways to see if anyone was around, and returned to the employee who had her back turned to Hudson. He then attacked her and stabbed her in the neck causing a 2–3-inch laceration.
Hudson was charged in Carver County District Court with 1st and 2nd Degree Assault and is being held on $1 million bond. His next court appearance is on December 13.
According to Alpha News, Hudson was a wanted fugitive at the time of the assault, having absconded from some form of conditional release from the federal Bureau of Prisons in July 2000.
The assault is yet another example of a revolving door of justice that is more concerned with its effect on criminals than on the effect criminals have on law-abiding citizens and society.
Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office supervisor is disbarred
Last week Kare 11’s Lou Raguse reported that Madsen Marcellus Jr, who had been hired as a supervisor with the Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office has been disbarred after a ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Marcellus had been an attorney in Florida, but his law license was suspended in 2018, and he was disbarred there in 2022. Despite these licensing problems, Marcellus somehow obtained his Minnesota law license in 2020. He then never disclosed the issues in Florida when applying for the Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office supervisory job. In 2022, then Hennepin County Defender Kassius Benson hired Marcellus before resigning himself the same year due to tax fraud charges.
The Minnesota Supreme Court wrote in its ruling regarding Marcellus that: “Marcellus’s misconduct in Florida included participating in a fraudulent mortgage application that also violated a court order in a dissolution proceeding, failing to inform a court of the fraudulent nature of that application, willfully violating numerous court orders in his marital dissolution proceeding, violating the terms of a final judgment in his marital dissolution proceedings, failing to pay court-ordered fees and taking steps to avoid legal process, and failing to pay court-ordered child support over a period of several years even after earlier discipline had been imposed for that conduct.”
While the ruling does not reflect any new allegations regarding Madsen’s work in Minnesota, the entire episode reflects poorly on the vetting process of our public defenders in Minnesota.
The Star Tribune reported last week that Hurshkumar Patel and Steve Shand had been found guilty after a federal trial for their roles in attempting to smuggle eleven Indian nationals into the US in 2022. Four of that group, a young Indian family, died of exposure in minus 33-degree weather after being driven across the Canadian border by Shand and dropped in a field in northern Minnesota.
The jury deliberated just over an hour before rendering its guilty verdict.
Patel and Shand “were found guilty of conspiracy to bring noncitizens to the United States, causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy; conspiracy to transport aliens causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy; attempted transportation of aliens in the U.S. for purposes of commercial advantage and private financial gain; and aiding and abetting the attempted transportation of aliens in America for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain.”
Andrew Lugar, The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota said the actions of Patel and Shand, “exposed the unthinkable cruelty of human smuggling and of those criminal organizations that value profit and greed over humanity.”
The case highlights some of the horrible consequences of the Biden/Harris border security policy. During their four-year term, permissive border and immigration policy led to an explosion in illegal border crossings. According to ICE records, an estimated 11 million illegal border crossings occurred under Biden/Harris, including another 2 million “got a ways.” As a result, there are currently an estimated 16 million illegal aliens residing in the US.
Securing the border, prioritizing the removal of criminals and other public safety threats among the millions of those here illegally, and investing in a functioning immigration system are among the incoming Trump/Vance administration’s top priorities. For that we can be thankful.