VIRGINIA, MN. (Northern News Now) – The two who held an Iron Range homeowner at gunpoint and killed their dog during a break-in have now been charged.
Dakota Jakob Sandberg, 24, of Virginia has been charged with a number of felonies together with first-degree housebreaking, second-degree assault, and animal cruelty.
Heather Ann Nappa, 25, additionally of Virginia was charged with felonies together with aiding and abetting to first-degree housebreaking and aiding and abetting to second-degree assault.
According to the prison criticism, on October 20 at round 4 a.m., the Virginia Police Department was dispatched to a residence on fifteenth Street North in Virginia.
The caller acknowledged Nappa and an unknown male, later recognized as Sandberg, entered her home and shot her canine.
Officers realized that the sufferer let Nappa keep along with her prior to now, however was now not allowed to remain on the sufferer’s residence.
Court paperwork say the sufferer was sleeping in her bed room with the door open when she heard somebody enter her residence, inflicting her canine to leap up and about to greet whoever entered.
Nappa and Sandberg have been sporting black ski masks and clothes after they approached the sufferer’s bed room.
Sandberg then shot the sufferer’s canine earlier than pointing the handgun and flashlight at her face.
The sufferer instructed authorities that they demanded money and “stuff” from her.
She was in a position to drive her bed room door shut, and Nappa and Sandberg left.
The sufferer was in a position to acknowledge Nappa by the sound of her voice.
Inside the residence, officers positioned the canine which had died from an obvious gunshot wound to the pinnacle, with a spent 9mm casing close by.
Just a few blocks from the residence, officers positioned a number of objects together with, 9mm rounds and a flashlight one might mount to a handgun.
According to the prison criticism, authorities pinged Nappa’s telephone and later positioned her at a residence in Ely.
Nappa instructed officers that the sufferer owed her money.
The sufferer instructed her she would give the money to Nappa, however she was afraid it was a setup, so she introduced Sandberg.
It is acknowledged that Nappa allegedly didn’t know Sandberg had a gun.
Officers positioned Sandberg at a special location in Virginia.
He instructed authorities that he bumped into Nappa on the Short Stop in Virginia when she talked about she was robbed by the sufferer.
Sandberg jokingly introduced up amassing the money from the sufferer and Nappa agreed.
She then messaged Sandberg shortly after about how they’d accumulate the money and agreed he might take all of the money they collected.
Then, Nappa picked up Sandberg and introduced him to the sufferer’s residence.
Court paperwork say they entered the sufferer’s residence and heard a canine bark close to the bed room.
Sandberg pointed a 9mm handgun with a lightweight connected on the sufferer when the canine jumped on him and tried to chunk him.
He then shot and killed the canine.
Nappa began demanding money from the sufferer and so they left.
Sandberg additionally admitted to later emptying the journal from the handgun and throwing it into Bailey’s Lake.
Nappa and Sandberg are every as much as 20 years in jail for the incident.
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