Crime & Safety

For Choking Librarian, Man Banned From Southdale Library

The man was cited for fifth-degree assault.

A 61-year-old St. Paul man has been banned from the Southdale Library for choking a librarian.

The man was sleeping in the library computer lab on Sept. 22. When a librarian touched the man to wake him, he grabbed her by the neck.

The man was cited for fifth-degree assault and banned from the Southdale Library.


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