Schnickel is accused of using social media and aliases to solicit sex from nearly 20 girls.

Former Minneapolis cop Bradley Schnickel is awaiting his trial for a handful of felony charges connected with alleged criminal sexual conduct involving minors and preteens. In one instance, Schnickel allegedly got a 14-year-old girl he met on Facebook drunk before having sex with her. The 32-year-old Schnickel lied about his age and told the girl he was 22.

THE BACKSTORY: Mpls cop Schnickel arrested on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct involving pre-teen girl

As you'd expect, Schnickel quickly lost his job with the MPD after charges were filed against him last February. But you might be surprised to learn he's working as a mall and apartment building security guard in Minneapolis while awaiting trial.

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Photo: County Attorney Jan Jude, 17-year-old Bailey Hamilton (courtesy Mille Lacs Messenger).

Bailey was hospitalized with a .21 BAC after drinking on Jude's property.

The Mille Lacs Band has temporarily reassigned police officer Russ Jude pending an investigation into reports that minors were drinking at a party on his property last month.

Russ, who is married to Mille Lacs County Attorney Jan Jude, will work in an internal position while the Anoka County Sheriff's Department looks into the allegations.

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Sonya Sylos in her apartment.

Stillwater resident Sonya Sylos claims three officers entered her apartment at 2 a.m. on Wednesday, May 22, without a warrant. Police don't deny the accusation but maintain it was an innocent mistake.

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That morning, Sylos says she awoke to noises, opened her bedroom door, and saw a Washington County deputy and two Stillwater cops inside her 518 Third St. N. unit. They had simply opened an unlocked door, walked up the stairs, and entered her apartment.

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Minnesota's most controversial cop retires.

Former Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher resigned his post with the St. Paul Police Department Monday, ending a nearly four-decade-long tenure in law enforcement for a cop who built a reputation for doing things his own way.

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Jude says she told her daughter "no alcohol would be tolerated."

Mille Lacs County Attorney Jan Jude maintains she didn't know minors were drinking on her property at her daughter's May 26 graduation party, contradicting accounts featured in a story published by the Mille Lacs Messenger over the weekend.

The Messenger article includes interviews with teenagers who were in attendance that night, saying Jude knew about the party. Ally Mrozik, 17, tells the paper she heard Jude's daughter Megan say adults at the house -- including Jude and her husband, a police investigator -- "were fine as long as no one drinks and drives."

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Teen hospitalized with .21 BAC after partying at County Attorney Jan Jude's property

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Bailey Hamilton photo (right) courtesy Mille Lacs Messenger.

The Anoka County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident.

A 17-year-old in Milaca, Minnesota, was rushed to the hospital early May 27 after drinking at a graduation party on property owned by Mille Lacs County Attorney Jan Jude and her husband Russ Jude, an investigator for Mille Lacs tribal police, according to the teen's mother.

Kim Hamilton says her son, Bailey, was unresponsive and barely breathing for six to seven hours with a BAC of .21. Hamilton says she feared for her son's life when doctors couldn't wake him up.

SEE ALSO: Mille Lacs Ojibwe fighting violent offenders with banishment

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The study indicates Minnesota is not so welcoming for blacks who smoke weed.

Whatever the reason, Minnesota cops are far more likely to arrest blacks for pot possession than whites, according to a new study by the ACLU.

SEE ALSO: Mark Hamburger's MLB career derailed by pot; he now lives in parents' Shoreview basement

According to the study, blacks were nearly eight times as likely to be arrested for pot in 2010, the last year for which numbers are available. In Ramsey County, blacks were 9.1 times more likely to be arrested.

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Aden was found in a car near the corner of Lowry Avenue and Washington Street NE.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has identified Mohamed Omar Aden as the man who died of gunshot wounds outside a party in northeast Minneapolis this weekend.

Around 4:30 a.m., police responded to a residence on the 2400 block of Washington Street NE and found Aden in a car outside the party. He had been shot multiple times, and died on scene.

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Chief Harteau denied the N-word allegations in the strongest terms.

During a news conference yesterday, the family of Terrence Franklin and a lawyer representing them touted a video they say shows Minneapolis cops using the N-word while they approached the Bryant Avenue South home where Franklin was shot and killed during a May 10 altercation with officers.

RELATED: MPD Chief Harteau says squad involved in fatal accident with motorcycle was traveling 16 mph

After showing reporters the video, attorney Mike Padden wondered aloud, "Was this incident racially motivated? I don't know. [But] a lot of folks think this department has a problem with racism and that it is endemic."

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The settlement marks the second-largest police payout in the department's history.

The Minneapolis City Council approved a $3 million payout Friday to the family of David Cornelius Smith, a 28-year-old who died in 2010 after an incident with police officers at the downtown YMCA.

Following Smith's death, his family filed a lawsuit in federal court, alleging the officers used excessive force and suffocated Smith while trying to bring him under control. The city will pay Smith's family $1.1 million from the settlement; their attorneys, Gaskins Bennett Birrell & Schupp, will receive $1.9 in legal fees. The case marks the second-largest police payout in the city's history.

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