A man is charged with using a stick to break windows at restaurants and another business on St. Paul’s West Seventh Street near the Xcel Energy Center.
Estimated costs to fix the windows totals $17,500, with the price tag at $8,000 for one restaurant, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
Police responded about 3 p.m. Tuesday to the Downtowner Woodfire Grill at West Seventh and Walnut streets for multiple reports of a man breaking windows in the area. Officers found a 30-year-old about a block away in front of Maharaja’s.
The man had blood coming from his arm. An officer asked why he broke the windows and he said “it was because he needed help,” according to the complaint. St. Paul Fire Department medics took him to the hospital. The complaint said he has no permanent address.
Witnesses saw the man using a stick to break a widow at the Downtowner, at Cossetta Alimentari and Maharaja’s. They also saw him damage the door at Patrick McGovern’s Pub.
The man cut himself when breaking one of the windows. Police noted the stick appeared to be a thick wooden handle from a tool.
The Downtowner’s owner tried to calm down the man and get him to stop breaking windows, but the man swung the stick at him two or three times, the complaint said.
The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office filed charges of threats of violence and four counts of first-degree criminal damage to property.
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