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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Last fall, Minnesota Wild owner Craig Leipold predicted that the start of free agency in 2025, with the team finally out from under eight figures of dead salary cap money, would be like Christmas in July.

Wild fans might feel like this was a Christmas when you got dress socks instead of a sweet new bike.

Generally speaking, it was a day of what can be termed “strategic patience” for general manager Bill Guerin and the Wild hockey operations staff, who added a depth forward in the form of Nico Sturm didn’t seem to be in mix for many other available pieces.

Still, Guerin believes the additions of Sturm and Vladimir Tarasenko via a Monday trade were net positives.

“Our team is better than it was couple days ago, I feel,” Guerin said. “I said it after last year and the year before and the year before: today is a big day for a lot of teams, us included. It’s an on-going process, but the difference is now we get to be more involved in other things. Our cap issues before is something that was holding us back. Now that won’t, and hopefully we can be involved in other things as the season goes along.”

In the run-up to the opening of free agency, Guerin had made it clear that there was no pressure to spend money just for the sake of spending, and that Minnesota’s newfound cap space might be better used for in-season trades and at the 2026 trade deadline than on an underwhelming free agent class.

Happy homecoming for Sturm

It’s a homecoming for Sturm, who played some of his first North American hockey a decade ago in Austin, Minn. and made his NHL debut with the Wild. Guerin brought back Sturm for a second stint with the Wild via a two-year, $4 million contract.

“Full-circle moment for me, coming here and, first and foremost for me, another chance in the next few years to compete in the Stanley Cup playoffs and bring that elusive Cup to (Minnesota),” Sturm said.

Sturm, 30, spent the bulk of last season in San Jose before heading cross country at the trade deadline and landing in Florida, where he played a limited role in the Panthers’ Stanley Cup run. It was the second NHL title of Sturm’s nine-season pro career; he also was a part of Colorado’s Stanley Cup run in 2022.

He brings a reputation for winning faceoffs and for logging minutes in a penalty killing role, two weak spots for the Wild. After three seasons of college hockey at Clarkson, Sturm made his NHL debut in Minnesota in 2019 and played more than 100 games for the Wild before leaving at the 2022 trade deadline.

“We know what type of guy he is. We know how seriously he takes his role,” Guerin said. “His faceoff percentage is one of the best in the league. Obviously, very attractive to us. We’ve been struggling in that department for a while.”

As a student at Clarkson, he began dating fellow college hockey player Taylor Turnquist, from Spring Lake Park. Today, the two are engaged and make their off-season home in the Twin Cities. Turnquist is now retired after having played pro hockey in Boston and for the now-defunct Minnesota Whitecaps.

“The group chat is buzzing,” Sturm said. “Obviously, they’ve been Wild fans their whole lives and are excited to dust off those old Sturm jerseys they’ve still got laying around.”

Opening-day moves

The hopes of some teams to spend on July 1 were also hampered by a number of pending free agents — Brock Nelson in Colorado; Sam Bennett, Aaron Ekblad and Brad Marchand in Florida — re-signing with their current teams. Sought-after forward Mitch Marner, formerly of Toronto, was dealt to Vegas in a sign-and-trade arrangement on Monday.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the day came not long after free agency opened at 11 a.m. when Vancouver forward Brock Boeser, who is from Burnsville and was a member of North Dakota’s NCAA title team in 2016, inked a new seven-year deal with the Canucks that will pay him upwards of $7 million a season.

Forward Justin Brazeau, acquired from Boston at the 2025 trade deadline, signed a two-year contract with Pittsburgh.

Next on the agenda for Guerin and the Wild, who have said they would like to add depth on defense and in goal, are the futures of forwards Kirill Kaprizov and Marco Rossi. Kaprizov’s five-year extension expires after this season, and Guerin has said a long-term deal for the Russian superstar is the team’s top priority. Rossi is a restricted free agent who has been the subject of much trade speculation.

Guerin said Tuesday the Wild would match any other team’s offer sheet for Rossi and they hope to extend him, as well.

MINNESOTANS ON THE MOVE

Several locally known NHL players changed teams on after free agency started Tuesday:

Nate Schmidt, St. Cloud: Former Gophers D left Florida for a three-year contract with Utah.

Nick Bjugstad, Blaine: Former Gophers and Wild F left Utah and signed a two-year contract with St. Louis.

Nick Perbix, Elk River: Former St. Cloud State D left Tampa Bay and signed for two years in Nashville.

Scott Perunovich, Hibbing: Former Minnesota Duluth D left the Islanders for a one-year, two-way contract with Utah.

Ryan Lindgren, Lakeville: Former Gophers D left Colorado and signed a four-year deal in Seattle.

K’Andre Miller, Minnetonka: Former Wisconsin D expected to move from the Rangers to Carolina in a trade that was being finalized.

Cole Koepke, Hermantown: Former Minnesota Duluth F left Boston and signed a one-year contract in Winnipeg.

Alex Lyon, Baudette: Former Yale G left Detroit to sign a two-year contract in Buffalo.

Travis Boyd, Hopkins: Former Gophers F who played three games for the Wild last season signed a one-year contract with Toronto.

Dominic Tonianato, Hermantown: Former UMD D left Winnipeg to sign a two-year contract with Chicago.

Mike Reilly, Chanhassen: Former Gophers and Wild D left the Islanders to sign a one-year contract with Carolina.

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A man found guilty of assaulting a Roseville police officer at a Walmart was sentenced to three years of probation this week.

Collin Scott Magnuson, 32, of St. Paul, received a sentence of one year in prison, which was stayed for three years, and a 77-day sentence, which he’s already served.

State sentencing guidelines did not call for prison time, though the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office asked that he be sentenced to more jail time. Magnuson’s attorney, Thomas E. Harmon V, argued against it during Monday’s hearing.

Magnuson opted for a bench trial and Ramsey County District Court Judge Maria Mitchell ruled in May that he was guilty of fourth-degree assault of a peace officer causing demonstrable bodily harm and not guilty of third-degree assault causing substantial bodily harm.

Harmon wrote in a closing argument to the court that the case “is about the unfortunate convergence of two people battling their respective demons. Mr. Magnuson battles alcohol” and he noted that Roseville Sgt. Ryan Duxbury sustained a traumatic brain injury when he was shot in the line of duty in 2022.

“On March 5th, 2025, they both lost, and we as a society are the worst for it,” Harmon wrote. “Mr. Magnuson does not pretend that his poor decision making before he entered Walmart that evening didn’t lead to this encounter. That does not mean he broke the law. That does not mean he was looking for a fight. That does not mean he deserved to be slammed to the ground.

“It means he has the right to hold the government to its burden of demonstrating proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” Harmon continued. “The government has failed to meet its burden.”

But Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Allison Fredrickson wrote that Duxbury “was using the de-escalation techniques that he had been taught: to talk to Mr. Magnuson, to use a calm voice, to give warnings and ask him to do things, like enter the office. Mr. Magnuson was told that he would be handcuffed if he did not comply. Immediately, Mr. Magnuson said no and pushed his weight into Sgt. Duxbury and grabbed his jacket, as if to leave.

“Sgt. Duxbury did not slam Mr. Magnuson to the ground,” she continued. “He testified that he grabbed his arm to handcuff him and when he did not comply, he tried to get him in the best position to put him in handcuffs to detain him. Sgt. Duxbury was doing his job, he was asked to assist in the apprehension of a shoplifting suspect.”

Fredrickson also noted there was no evidence presented at trial that Magnuson was under the influence.

On March 5, a Walmart asset protection officer saw Magnuson, who was at self-checkout, didn’t scan all the items he selected and then began walking out of the Roseville store, Mitchell wrote in a court document about her findings of fact.

Duxbury was working contracted overtime at Walmart and was notified by loss prevention about the suspected theft.

From the assault, Duxbury sustained cuts and bruising on his hand, had bruising on his face and experienced headaches, Mitchell wrote. He went to the doctor and did not receive a diagnosis of a concussion.

“It’s unfortunate that people, while committing crimes, … think that it’s OK to assault a police officer,” Roseville Deputy Police Chief Joe Adams said Tuesday. “It should be clear that if you’re going to assault a police officer, we’re going to partner with the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office and hold you accountable.”

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By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is ramping up its plans to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who’ve committed crimes or pose a national security risk, according to a recent memo underscoring the Trump administration’s hardline immigration agenda.

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Efforts to identity and go after those suspected of cheating to get their citizenship are not new to this administration.

But the public push is raising concerns from advocates, who have accused the administration of trying to use immigration enforcement for political purposes. It’s receiving increased scrutiny after a Republican member of Congress suggested that Zohran Mamdani, the New York City Democratic mayoral candidate, should be subject to denaturalization proceedings.

Here’s a look at the denaturalization process and what the Justice Department’s memo means:

Denaturalization cases are rare

The U.S. government can strip a naturalized immigrant of their citizenship if they are criminally convicted of naturalization fraud or if the government proves through civil proceedings that they illegally obtained their citizenship through fraud or misrepresented or concealed facts on their application.

For years, the government’s denaturalization efforts focused largely on suspected war criminals who lied on their immigration paperwork, most notably former Nazis. The Justice Department filed just more than 300 total cases between 1990 and 2017.

An initiative that began under the Obama administration called Operation Janus expanded those efforts by seeking to identify people who had used different identities to get green cards and citizenship after they were previously issued deportation orders.

In 2016, an internal watchdog reported that 315,000 old fingerprint records for immigrants who had been deported or had criminal convictions had not been uploaded to a Department of Homeland Security database that is used to check immigrants’ identities. The same report found more than 800 immigrants had been ordered deported under one identity but became U.S. citizens under another.

The first Trump administration made such investigations a bigger priority, creating a Justice Department section focused on denaturalization cases.

But even then, the number of denaturalization cases remained small, as the administration didn’t have the resources to bring many amid an onslaught of legal challenges to immigration policies it had to defend against, said Matthew Hoppock, an attorney in Kansas who represents people in denaturalization cases.

Justice Department says it will prioritize certain cases

The push was announced in a memo from the recently confirmed head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate. Shumate said the cases the department will prioritize include people who “pose a potential danger to national security,” people who commit violent crimes, members of gangs and drug cartels and people who commit Medicaid fraud and other types of fraud.

The benefits of the denaturalization process, Shumate wrote, “include the government’s ability to revoke the citizenship of individuals who engaged in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses; to remove naturalized criminals, gang members, or, indeed, any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the United States; and to prevent convicted terrorists from returning to U.S. soil or traveling internationally on a U.S. passport.”

Hoppock said the memo sort of “blows the doors open” for the administration to file as many as many denaturalization cases as it has the resources to file.

Lawyers raise alarm about the potential impact

The broad language in the memo raises the prospect “that any offense, at any time, may be used to justify denaturalization,” said Christopher Wellborn, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

“It is not difficult to imagine a scenario where the government invokes unsubstantiated claims of gang affiliation or uses an individual’s criminal record to claim that citizenship was illegally procured,” Wellborn said in a statement.

Others worry the administration’s public push will stoke fear among naturalized immigrants.

“The more you talk about it, the more you frame it as ‘we’re coming after your naturalization, we’re coming after you,’ the more of a chilling effect we see on people applying for naturalization,” said Elizabeth Taufa, senior policy attorney and strategist at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. “Even those folks that really are eligible for naturalization.”

Critics have accused the Trump administration using immigration enforcement to go after people because of their speech — most notably in the case of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, whom it has sought to deport over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.

“One of our ongoing concerns is will they target these politically, will they start combing through people’s immigration files if they don’t like you or if they think you don’t agree with the government,” Hoppock said.

“I think most Americans would support the idea of stripping someone of citizenship if they got it through fraud and they are also a dangerous person,” he said, but the concern is if they start going through “regular folks’ immigration files to find a T that is not crossed or an I that is not dotted so they can use it as a weapon.”

Justice Department recently secured denaturalization in one case

The department last month announced that it had successfully secured the denaturalization of a man who was convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material.

The British man had become a U.S. citizen after enlisting in the U.S. Army under a provision that provides a pathway to citizenship for U.S. service members, officials said. He only listed a speeding ticket when asked on his naturalization application if he had “ever committed a crime or offense for which you were not arrested,” and he became a U.S. citizen in 2013.

Months later, he was arrested in Louisiana on child sexual abuse material charges and convicted, according to the department.

“The laws intended to facilitate citizenship for brave men and women who join our nation’s armed forces will not shield individuals who have fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship by concealing their crimes,” Shumate said in a statement at the time. “If you commit serious crimes before you become a U.S. citizen and then lie about them during your naturalization process, the Justice Department will discover the truth and come after you.”