A group home worker admitted to police that he slept while a vulnerable man he was supposed to be caring for stepped out into dangerously cold weather and died in a North St. Paul street last week, according to a criminal complaint.

Abiodun Olalekan Onakoya, 29, of Champlin, is charged in Ramsey County District Court with felony criminal neglect in connection with the Jan. 27 incident at the group home in the 2700 block of McKnight Road North in North St. Paul.

According to Thursday’s complaint:

A North St. Paul police officer on routine patrol saw a naked person lying face down in the street at the intersection of 17th Avenue East and Second Street North about 4:24 a.m. Medics arrived and pronounced the 44-year-old dead; autopsy results are pending.

(Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

Temperatures were well below freezing during the early morning hours, the complaint said.

Officers checked the group home and discovered the man was a vulnerable adult who lived at the residence, which is about four blocks north of where he was found.

Officers were told Onakoya was the staff member assigned to the man’s one-on-one care.

A staff member told police that he wasn’t aware the man was missing until police arrived. He said he found the man’s bedroom door open, so he looked inside and saw he wasn’t there. He looked for Onakoya, who was responsible for the man, and found Onakoya sleeping in a spare bedroom of the residence with the lights off and the door closed, the complaint said.

Police discovered from group home records that the man had left his room in recent days. On Jan. 19, eight days before his death, he left his room naked and ran back to his room when confronted by staff. The next day, he left his room naked three times between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Three days after that, he disrobed and attempted to run out of the house through the garage, but was stopped by staff arriving for shift change, the complaint said.

Police believe the man also went through the home’s garage the night he died. When they arrived, the garage door was open and “staff members were by the main entrance and exit and would have noticed (the man) attempting to leave,” the complaint read. “There were no footprints in the snow outside of (the man’s) windows.”

Police reviewed camera footage from a home located near where the man was found. It showed he walked past the camera on the sidewalk on westbound 17th Avenue at 3:22 a.m., just under an hour before he was found. “He was walking normally and did not appear to be injured,” the complaint read.

Onakoya, in an interview with police, admitted that he was sleeping in a downstairs bedroom off the living room. He said that he knows he is not supposed to sleep while at work and that “he never thought this would happen,” the complaint read.

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Onakoya’s signed work agreement states that he was not allowed to sleep at any time while at work, the complaint said.

Onakoya went before a judge on the charge and was granted conditional release from jail ahead of a next hearing scheduled for April 14. An attorney for Onakoya was not listed in his court file.

State records show the Department of Human Services temporarily suspended the license for the group home on Friday, pending further investigation. A message left Monday for the license holder, Pathways to Community, based in St. Paul, seeking comment on the suspension and the criminal case against Onakoya was not immediately returned.

The NBA trade deadline is Thursday afternoon, and Minnesota is expected to be in the mix between now and then amid the league-wide player movement frenzy.

Whether any such move is big or small in relative scope remains to be seen.

It is worth remembering Minnesota has been in the past two Western Conference Finals – it’s the only team in the West to reach consecutive conference finals since 2020. The Wolves’ front office does believe if you reach that point, you are a title contender.

Minnesota entered Monday’s slate seeded fifth in the conference’s playoff picture, just two and a half games out of the No. 2 spot.

With all that in mind, weighty decisions face basketball boss Tim Connelly and Co. over the next few days, as Minnesota must consider whether a seismic shakeup to a productive core is wise or foolish. And if tinkering is the proper path, what tiny maneuver could push the Timberwolves over the top?

The big swing

The Timberwolves remain firmly in the public conversation centered on a potential Giannis Antetokounmpo trade.

But Minnesota doesn’t have the draft capital the likes of, say, a Golden State possesses in negotiations. So a Wolves package would be built around current players.

It’s impossible to forecast a trade that wouldn’t feature talented two-way wing Jaden McDaniels going out to bring in Antetokounmpo – a top-three player in the NBA at the peak of his powers. Julius Randle and/or Naz Reid may need to be included, as well.

The result of such a deal, which would pair Edwards and Antetokounmpo as the NBA’s clear top tandem, would also require an on-the-fly restructuring of Minnesota’s entire roster.

Such all-in moves can result in championships, but they can also fly directly in the face of a franchise.

Connelly has proven to not be risk averse during his time in Minnesota, but this certainly would be a massive swing with numerous long-term implications.

A seventh man

Minnesota’s starting lineup has been effective for most of the season. But the bench production outside of Naz Reid – the frontrunner to win a second Sixth Man of the Year trophy – is hit or miss.

Bones Hyland has shown flashes, but he remains inconsistent on both ends of the floor. Mike Conley has struggled to score, and the tolls of an 82-game season weigh physically on the 38-year-old. Jaylen Clark’s defense is enticing, but his offense remains a hindrance. Terrence Shannon Jr. hasn’t panned out when healthy, and Rob Dillingham is out of the rotation entirely.

No team is stacked one through 10, but Minnesota doesn’t have a surefire seventh man it can consistently rely on behind its five starters and Reid.

That could be a point guard, sure. But could just as easily be a guard/wing combo player. Anyone who could provide more consistent offensive production while – perhaps more importantly – seamlessly fitting into the team’s desired defensive identity could increase confidence in the team’s rotation as a whole to go pound for pound with the best of the West for three consecutive playoff rounds.

The Nickeil Alexander-Walker archetype doesn’t grow on trees, but Minnesota’s rotation is missing exactly that type of player.

Of the names realistically available mentioned in connection with Minnesota, Bulls guard Ayo Dosunmu may best fit the bill.

Veteran center

A rim protecting center who could patrol the paint during the non-Rudy Gobert minutes looked like a must add earlier in the season, but rookie big man Joan Beringer’s aptitude in limited opportunities of late have quelled much of that concern.

Should Minnesota face a bigger front or need additional defensive resistance when its starting center is off the floor, Beringer looks to be at least as good of a solution as anything the Timberwolves would find available on the trade market.

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After selling out a pair of 2024 shows at the former Xcel Energy Center, singer/songwriter Noah Kahan will take his show outdoors when he headlines Target Field on Aug. 5.

Tickets go on sale at noon Feb. 12 through Ticketmaster. Fans have access to a presale if they register at signup.ticketmaster.com/noahkahan by the end of the day Thursday. Kahan is using Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange and tickets will be non-transferable and can only be resold on Ticketmaster at face value.

Raised on a tree farm in Vermont, Noah Kahan started writing songs at the age of eight. He later applied and was accepted to Tulane University, but chose instead to focus on his music. In 2017, he signed a deal with Republic Records and went on to score a hit in 2019 with the single “Hurt Somebody.”

Kahan’s second album “I Was/I Am” was largely ignored in 2021. When he set out to make 2022’s “Stick Season,” he adopted a more pronounced folk-pop style that struck a chord with listeners. Thanks in part to TikTok, the title track became a worldwide hit, as did 2023’s “Dial Drunk” with guest Post Malone.

Collaborating with other artists has become common for Kahan, who made “She Calls Me Back” with Kacey Musgraves, “Northern Attitude” with Hozier, “Everything, Everywhere” with Gracie Abrams and “Homesick” with Sam Fender. Kahan also guested on Zach Bryan’s single “Sarah’s Place,” a Top 5 hit on both rock and country radio.

Last week, Kahan released “The Great Divide,” the first single from his album of the same name, which is due out April 24.

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The Ramsey County Board will use $1.95 million in state grant money to acquire properties to serve as therapeutic treatment homes for youth in the juvenile court system.

Funded through the state Department of Public Safety, the first home is expected to open by the end of the year and the county is currently negotiating with outside organizations for services. Services will include individual and family therapy and trauma-informed therapy methods, anger management, substance use disorder counseling, life skills education and mentorship and extracurricular activities.

Each facility will house up to six young people who have a judicial order for placement and services through juvenile court as an alternative to detention or out-of-county placements, according to the county.

“I just want to say that this is really important work. It’s transformational work,” said county Board Member Tara Jebens-Singh at the board’s Jan. 27 meeting. “There has been heavy lifting from community, from our community engagement teams that have been working on this to make sure that there is community voice in this. And a tremendous heavy lift with staff in the midst of doing many, many, many other things.”

The county board received a total of $4.64 million in funds from the state to establish up to seven “trauma-informed” therapeutic treatment homes in May 2024, with current plans for two to three homes. The homes will be licensed by the Department of Human Services and must provide intensive treatment. Another $4.75 million from the state will go toward services.

The $4.64 million will go in part to 10-year mortgages on the homes, after which the county would have first right of refusal in the case of a property sale, meaning repurchase of the property would be reserved for the county first, as requested by board members.

“We’ve been working on this since like 2019,” said Board Member Rena Moran. “So to get providers who are in this and want to invest in it and want to do this work is really critically important.”

Ramsey County closed Boys Totem Town, its male juvenile corrections facility, in 2019, due to a decline in the number of young people sentenced there and a focus on more community-based programs.

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