An alleged attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl by three men on May 5 is just one in a string of luring incidents that have occurred in southwest Minneapolis this month, according to the Minneapolis Police Department.

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In total, there have been four luring-related incidents this month in that part of town, and a fifth incident where an older man was seen creepily loitering in a residential neighborhood while possibly taking photos of children.

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Finley's messages to Alexa Ray Joel attracted the attention of Billy Joel and Paul McCartney.

Sheryl Finley allegedly sent Billy Joel's daughter, 27-year-old Alexa Ray Joel, more than 60 Facebook messages threatening "pedophilia, sadistic-sexual behavior, violent physical assaults and murder," court records allege. And the story just gets weirder from there.

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Finley, 40, was reportedly arrested naked in the woods in Austin, Minnesota. In January.

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"We anticipate many victims, although they are most likely unaware they have been victimized," Anoka County Sheriff's spokesman Paul Sommer told the Star Tribune.

There's a good reason why gyms ask you not to use electronic devices in locker rooms -- namely, there's some real creepos out there.

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One of them is allegedly 53-year-old Coon Rapids resident Robert Minor. Though he hasn't been charged with any crimes yet, according to a search warrant executed over the weekend, Minor was in possession of naked images of boys he obtained by filming them in locker rooms with a camera watch.

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Jeffrey, 39, remains in jail on suspicion of murdering his missing wife, Kira.

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Jeffrey Trevino has been arrested on suspicion of homicide in connection with his wife's sudden disappearance, but he hasn't yet been charged with a crime.

After searching the Trevinos' home on the 500 block of East Iowa Avenue in St. Paul on Monday, officers decided they have enough evidence to arrest Jeffrey. But with Kira's body still unaccounted for, it might be hard to get a murder charge to stick, and prosecutors have to decide whether to charge or release Jeffrey by 10 a.m. today.

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Above: A letter from the Department of Human Services sent to a plaintiff in the class-action suit.

A Mankato-based law firm filed lawsuits this week against the Department of Human Services and the Department of Natural Resources alleging employees in both state agencies regularly breached the private data of Minnesotans.

Scott Kelly, an attorney bringing the suits, couldn't speculate as to how the two employees chose the people whose information they accessed. But the cases further illuminate the troubling prevalence of state employee abuse of Department of Vehicle Services records, he says. The database contains such information as a person's name, date of birth, driver's license number, address, photo, eye color, height, weight, and driver's license status.

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Schnickel allegedly solicited pre-teen girls for sex on Facebook.

Minneapolis Police Officer Bradley Schnickel has been charged with sex felonies in connection with social media and sexual relationships he allegedly had with young girls.

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According to Fox 9's Tom Lyden, in one instance, Schnickel allegedly got a 14-year-old girl drunk before having sex with her. The 32-year-old Schnickel lied about his age and told the girl he was 22.

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Three girls have come forward and accused Wangberg of abusing them when they were between five and seven years old.

John Wangberg was a physical education teacher at Bemidji's Central Elementary School for 30 years. He resigned on March 16, 2011, and two days later the family of a student came forward to report the girl had been sexually abused by him.

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But it wasn't until a year and a half later -- after two more girls came forward to say they'd been abused by Wangberg while they were in kindergarten -- that criminal charges were filed. On Wednesday, Wangberg, 58, was arraigned on two felony counts of criminal sexual conduct and a gross misdemeanor charge of non-consensual sexual conduct.

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Olson allegedly put a young visitor to sleep with a mystery concoction before assaulting him.

Steven Olson faces a second-degree criminal sexual conduct charge for allegedly spiking juice he gave an eight-year-old boy before touching him inappropriately.

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The boy and his sister had been dropped off by their mother at Olson's Blaine home on New Year's Day when the incident allegedly occurred. It's unclear why the mother made the regrettable decision to leave her children with Olson, 27, in the first place.

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Neighbors heard Inselman pump eight bullets into her ex in a Brooklyn Center apartment last February.

Rochelle Inselman, a 39-year-old Eden Valley woman who killed her ex-boyfriend two days before Valentine's Day earlier this year, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last week and will be sentenced to 40 years in prison tomorrow.

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Inselman shot her 41-year-old ex, Bret Struck, eight times with a 9mm handgun in his Brooklyn Center apartment. In court last Friday, she portrayed the murder as the culmination of an argument that escalated.

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Screen shot from Today Show.

Rasmusson has won over $1 million in lawsuit.

Anne Marie Rasmusson appeared on NBC's Today show this morning, where she discussed how unwanted attention from Minnesota cops continues to be such a concern, she plans to move out of state.

The subject of our February cover story, "Is This Woman Too Hot to Have a Driver's License," Rasmusson began receiving attention from officers who seemed to know a lot about her a few years ago. Through an audit from the Department of Public Safety, she discovered her driver's license record had been accessed 425 time from 2007 to August 2011 -- by 104 different officers in 18 agencies across Minnesota. In June, City Pages obtained data pointing to another 174 look ups.

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