Emanuel Reynoso has a checkered past with guns and another troubling incident has surfaced.

The Cordoba, Argentina news outlet El Doce shared a short video Tuesday of the current Minnesota United midfielder holding a bag with what appears to be several stacks of cash. An unidentified man also is in the video holding the likeness of a handgun and more bundles of money.

ElDoce.tv — according to a translation from Spanish — said the source who shared the video is from the same area where Reynoso’s family lives in Argentina. The source remained anonymous but said Reynoso and friends have been a nuisance during Reynoso’s time away from Minnesota over the previous two months.

Minnesota United midfielder Emanuel Reynoso, right, is in a screenshot of a video posted by El Doce.tv on Tuesday. The Argentina news outlet shows Reynoso holding a bag with what appears to be stacks of money and an unidentified man holding the likeness of a handgun and more money. Via ElDoce.tv

The Loons are looking to offload Reynoso, with Club Tijuana in Mexico’s Liga MX becoming a potential suitor via a transfer deal on Tuesday.

MNUFC did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Tuesday night.

Reynoso was supposed to only briefly leave Minnesota after making his season debut against Los Angeles FC on March 15. He had a team-organized U.S. green card appointment in Argentina the week of March 18 and the plan was for him to promptly return to Minnesota and continue with the MLS season.

But Reynoso, 28, remained in Argentina and MNUFC deemed it an unexcused absence. He returned to Minnesota around May 10 and was put on a return-to-play protocol that required him to workout on his own for the time being.

Reynoso has had previous run-ins with the law in Argentina. In December 2021, he was accused of hitting and threatening a then-16-year-old boy with a gun in Cordoba. Reynoso was detained in jail for approximately 10 days until posting bail.

When he returned to Minnesota, he addressed that accusation of assault, saying “everything was solved.”

Reynoso acknowledged to the Pioneer Press in 2020 that he was present at a shooting in Argentina in 2017 but said he “didn’t participate.” Prosecutors said at least 20 bullets were fired but no one was injured, The Clarin newspaper reported.

When Reynoso was age 18 in 2014, he said he suffered a gunshot wound in his left leg when he and friends were riding motorcycles. Two other people on motorcycles sped past Reynoso before confronting him, he shared.

“They tried to rob me, and that’s when they shot me,” Reynoso said. “It hit my knee.”

Reynoso also didn’t report to Minnesota for the first five months of the 2023 season and was suspended without pay by MLS. He came back in May and played in 18 matches starting in June. He said that absence was due to personal matters.

Reynoso, who has watched the last two MNUFC games from the stands at Allianz Field, is currently under contract with United until the end of the 2025 season. He is the club’s second-highest paid player at $2.2 million, according to MLS Players Association.

He has scored 22 goals and contributed 20 primary assists in 90 MLS games for the Loons since 2020.

Minnesota twice had leads in Game 1 of the Professional Women’s Hockey League finals on Sunday before Boston rallied and then won 4-3 with three second-period goals.

There would be no comeback in Game 2.

Minnesota scored twice in the first period and added an empty-net tally in the third to win 3-0 on Tuesday night in Boston at the Tsongas Center, with Minnesota goaltender Nicole Hensley stopping all 20 shots she faced for the shutout.

Michela Cava scored for the second straight game and Sophie Jaques scored twice for Minnesota, which will return home tied 1-all in the best-of-five championship series for the Walter Cup.

“It feels amazing (to get the shutout),” Hensley told the Associated Press. “Obviously Maddie has been carrying our team, it’s nice to be able to help out our team and give her a little break. It’s huge to get a split on the road, that’s what you’re looking to do in the playoffs. I’m excited to get back to Minnesota and our fans.”

Hensley took the net on Tuesday after Maddie Rooney had played five straight games, including posting two shutouts herself.

Cava opened the scoring at 14:25 in the first. Less than two minutes later, Jaques skated in from the point and let a wrist shot fly from the faceoff circle to beat Boston goaltender Aerin Frankel at 16:21.

After five goals were scored in the second period on Sunday, Minnesota’s defense was locked in Tuesday. Neither team would score until Jaques added an empty-netter with 2:29 remaining. Boston had won six straight games, including a sweep of Montreal in the first round, while Minnesota had to go five games against top-seed Toronto, including a comeback after being losing the first two games of the series.

Boston had won 12 straight one-goal games, including four in the playoffs. Frankel made 20 saves for Boston, which travels to Minnesota now for Game 3 on Friday at 6 p.m. at the Xcel Energy Center.

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Anoka has agreed not to disclose private medical information about renters with mental health issues and to pay $175,000 to resolve a complaint from the federal government that the city discriminated against mentally ill residents in enforcing an anti-crime law.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced its agreement with Anoka. It addresses allegations that the city violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act by improperly pressuring landlords to evict tenants with mental health issues over multiple police or emergency calls to their addresses. The DOJ also filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the city, but that case won’t go forward if a judge approves the agreement.

The department told the city in a letter in November that an investigation showed illegal discrimination in enforcing a “crime-free” housing ordinance allowing the city to fine or deny rental licenses to landlords whose properties are deemed a nuisance or a source of criminal activity. In at least 780 cases from 2018 through mid-2023, the city issued weekly reports to landlords sharing details about people’s mental health crises and even how some tried to kill themselves, the DOJ said.

DOJ officials described the November letter as a first-of-its-kind finding of discrimination against people with mental health disabilities from one of the hundreds of anti-crime ordinances enacted by cities across the U.S. since the early 1990s. Housing and civil liberties advocates have long argued that those policies are enforced more harshly in poor neighborhoods and against people of color.

“Anoka’s so-called ‘crime-free’ housing program does not protect public safety but rather risks lives by discouraging people with disabilities and their loved ones from calling for help when needed most,” Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said in a statement.

Anoka, with about 18,000 residents, has been home to a state psychiatric hospital for more than 100 years.

The city’s mayor and its attorney did not immediately respond to email and phone messages seeking comment, but the agreement said the city denied wrongdoing and the allegations in the November letter and the lawsuit filed Tuesday.

“However, the City desires to avoid any litigation,” the agreement said, adding that Anoka wanted to ensure that its policies comply with both the ADA and federal fair housing laws.

The city’s $175,000 payment will cover compensation for people the DOJ identifies as having been harmed by Anoka’s enforcement of its anti-crime ordinance.

The city will have 30 days to revise its anti-crime housing ordinance, which allows the Anoka to suspend a landlord’s rental license if there are more than four “nuisance” calls to an address in a year. A nuisance call involves “disorderly conduct,” such as criminal activity and acts jeopardizing others, but also “unfounded calls to police” and allowing a “physically offensive condition,” without defining those further.

Under the agreement, the city cannot treat mental health-related calls to an address as nuisance calls, and it is required to notify both a renter and landlord whenever a call for another reason is deemed a nuisance call, giving them information about how to appeal.

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Bad weather Tuesday was hampering the search for two men who went over a waterfall while fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota over the weekend.

St. Louis County Sheriff’s Cmdr. Nate Skelton told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that the cloud cover was too low for aerial surveillance and up to 2 inches of rain was anticipated, so the next two days were not promising.

Skelton said a search crew was camping on site, waiting for conditions to improve in the remote area, about 100 miles north of Duluth. The closest town is Ely, some 20 miles away. The crew was equipped with drones and remotely operated vehicles.

Superior National Forest officials closed trails, campsites, portages and bodies of water in the area, to assist in the search.

Authorities have identified the missing men as Jesse Melvin Haugen, 41, of Cambridge, Minn., and Reis Melvin Grams, 40, of Lino Lakes. They went over Curtain Falls, between Crooked Lake and Iron Lake on the Minnesota-Ontario border while fishing in the area Saturday.

The missing men were part of a group of five in two canoes.

“One of the canoes got into some distress, and the others tried to give assistance,” Skelton said. “That’s when they both went over the falls.”

Two of the men who went over were later rescued. One — Kyle Thomas Sellers, 47, of Ham Lake — was flown to a Duluth hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The other was identified as Erik Michael Grams, 43, also of Ham Lake. The fifth man — Jared Jay Lohse, 33, of Cambridge — was found at a nearby campsite.

Skelton told Minnesota Public Radio that the waterfall is not a straight drop but goes down about 30 feet, with a rapid current. He said the group was familiar with the area.

“Four of them were basically anchored at the top of the falls, fishing, which they’ve done in the past, and it sounds like one of them may have had an issue and the other one went to try to give some assistance and both canoes and four people went over the falls,” the sheriff told MPR.

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