A teen who was charged with multiple gun offenses in St. Paul and pleaded guilty to one felony will be under the court’s jurisdiction into adulthood.
The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office charged the then-17-year-old in April with 12 felonies: possession of a machine gun, possession of a firearm without a serial number, committing a crime while possessing a bullet-resistant vest, and nine counts of possession of a firearm by a person under age 18.
The St. Paul teen pleaded guilty to possession of a machine gun, which carried a presumptive prison sentence under state sentencing guidelines, according to the juvenile petition. The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office withdrew its motion to certify the case to adult court as part of a plea agreement for an Extended Jurisdiction Juvenile disposition, said a spokesman for the office. The other counts were dismissed.
An EJJ case involves a young person “who has been given a stayed adult criminal sentence … and for whom jurisdiction of the juvenile court may continue until the child’s 21st birthday,” Minnesota court rules state.
Ramsey County District Court Judge Jacob Kraus on Tuesday stayed a four-year prison sentence, put the teen on EJJ probation and ordered he complete 100 hours of community-work service, according to the county attorney’s office and the teen’s attorney.
The teen was charged after Ramsey County sheriff’s deputies carried out a search warrant at his family home in the 900 block of Burr Street in St. Paul’s Payne-Phalen in late March, and found eight firearms in his bedroom and another gun in a bag he was carrying, according to the petition.
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