A volunteer at a Roseville church has been charged with sexually assaulting four young children at the church.

Joshua Alirio Seeman, 50, “is a cognitively delayed adult with a lengthy history of sexual assault accusations against him made by vulnerable adults, and now young children,” according to the criminal complaint filed Friday.

Joshua Alirio Seeman (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

Roseville police were notified by a parent on April 6 that his 5-year-old son had been sexually assaulted by Seeman at King of Kings Lutheran Church on Dale Street near Minnesota 36. Police received reports the next day about three additional victims: a 4-year-old boy, a 5-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy.

It wasn’t known as of Monday whether there were other possible victims. Roseville police are asking people who attend the church to talk to family members who interacted with Seeman, a volunteer at the church for about two years, and contact police if they believe he victimized them, said Deputy Chief Joe Adams.

‘Mr. Josh’ seen in bathrooms

The complaint against Seeman, of St. Paul, gives the following information from police and prosecutors:

On April 6, after a man picked up his son from Sunday school, the boy told his father that his “butt” was hurting.

The child confided in his mother at home that “Josh” told him “that his parents were okay with them going into the bathroom together.” His mother asked if it happened before and he said it had three or four times. About two weeks earlier, the child’s teacher said the boy had been in the bathroom for about 30 minutes, which was unusual.

The child’s parents told another person about the incidents. He informed his family, who are active members of the church, and learned a relative saw “Mr. Josh” walk girls to the bathroom and saw him enter the boy’s bathroom on April 6.

The man also asked his relatives to speak with their children, which led to a woman discussing with her 6-year-old son about “‘right’ and ‘wrong’ behavior from people in his life, like family and church members.” The child told his mother, “Mr. Josh asked me to pull my pants down. Is that wrong?”

Both of the children underwent medical exams at Midwest Children’s Resource Center. The 6-year-old’s mother asked him to use his toy elephant to show what happened in the bathroom stall with Seeman. He pointed to the front and bottom of the elephant’s lower area, “then became distraught and said he forgot.”

The 5-year-old also “did not make any disclosures about inappropriate touches during the exam and said he didn’t remember telling his parents what Seeman had done to him,” the complaint said. “Per medical professionals, ‘It is not uncommon for children who disclose sexual abuse to be uncomfortable discussing it in an interview setting. His spontaneous disclosure to his father raises significant concern for sexual abuse.’”

Parents say he also contacted them about babysitting

The mother of another child, a 5-year-old girl, said her daughter hadn’t been allowing her to wipe her “private area” during baths on Sundays over the past month or two, saying they hurt. She asked her daughter about “Mr. Josh” and the girl told her he brought her and another 5-year-old girl to the bathroom. She said he wouldn’t let either of them shut the door when they used the toilet and he looked at them.

During the girl’s exam, she reported that Seeman took her to the bathroom and used his hand to touch the outside and inside of her vagina.

The mother of the girl also spoke to her 4-year-old son and he told her “Mr. Josh” touched his penis and buttocks, “then got very emotional and broke down saying he forgot what happened,” the complaint said.

The parents of two of the children said Seeman had contacted them previously about babysitting for them. He also asked about taking some of the children bowling.

The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office charged Seeman with two counts of first-degree and two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.

No one could be reached at King of Kings Lutheran Church in Roseville for comment as of Monday afternoon.

Prosecution declined in past cases

Seeman was arrested on Thursday. His brother is his legal guardian and told police they weren’t allowed to interview him, and he would seek an attorney’s advice on his brother’s behalf.

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Seeman remained jailed as of Monday. His attorney couldn’t immediately be reached.

Police received sexual assault reports about Seeman in 2001, 2006, 2014, 2015 and 2022.

“Prosecution on all but one prior case has been declined due to Seeman’s cognitive disability,” the complaint said, adding that there were “multiple attempts” to get help for Seeman.

He was charged with fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in 2022 involving a woman who was previously a friend of Seeman’s and who has the “cognitive functioning level of a child,” the criminal complaint in that case said. She reported it happened in the bathroom of a White Bear Lake park.

After evaluation by a psychologist, a judge ruled he was incompetent to proceed with the legal matter “due to mental illness or cognitive impairment,” according to a court document. A “forensic navigator” was appointed to provide services for Seeman with “the goal of attaining his competence” for the court case to continue, the document said.

Last week, before learning of the current case, the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office filed a notice of intent to prosecute in the 2022 case.

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer

Confusion over President Donald Trump’s tariffs remains following a weekend of questions around trade in consumer electronics.

On Friday the Trump administration paused its new taxes on electronics imported into the U.S. — signaling some relief from trade wars that have particularly escalated with China, a major exporter of technology from smartphones to laptops. But these goods remain subject to other levies.

And officials have also indicated that additional, sector-specific tariffs targeting electronics are on the way — all of which economists warn will raise costs and lead to higher prices for consumers.

Here’s what we know.

Are electronics exempt from Trump’s newest tariffs?

Late Friday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that electronics, including smartphones and laptops, would be excluded from broader, so-called “reciprocal” tariffs — meaning these goods wouldn’t be subject to most tariffs levied on China to date or the 10% baseline levies imposed on other countries.

But U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick later said that this was only a temporary reprieve — telling ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that electronics will be included under future sector-specific tariffs on semiconductor products, set to arrive in “probably a month or two.”

And not all of the levies that the U.S. has imposed on countries like China fall under the White House’s “reciprocal” categorization. Hours after Lutnick’s comments, Trump declared on social media that there was no “exception” at all, adding to confusion. Trump instead argued that these goods are “just moving to a different” bucket. He also said that China will still face a 20% levy on electronics imports as part of his administration’s prior move related to fentanyl trafficking.

How has China responded?

On Sunday, China’s commerce ministry welcomed a partial reprieve on consumer electronics — but continued to call for the U.S. to completely cancel the rest of its tariffs.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated that on Monday, writing in an editorial jointly published in Vietnamese and Chinese official media that “there are no winners in a trade war.” He added that both China and the U.S. “should resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperative international environment.”

Tit-for-tat tariffs between the U.S. and China have escalated to new heights over recent months. Since taking office in January, Trump has imposed a series of levies that now amount to 145% taxes on a range of imports from the country.

In response, China has hit back with its own measures, including tariffs on U.S. goods that currently total 125%. Its Commerce Ministry has also said it will impose more export controls on rare earths, used in high-tech products such as computer chips and electric vehicle batteries.

What could reducing tariffs on electronics mean for consumers?

Tariffs are taxes on goods imported from other countries. And because so many of the electronics we buy rely on a global supply chain, economists have warned that tariffs impacting consumer technology could mean higher prices for your next smartphone, computer or other gadgets.

Reducing the size of those tariffs, even temporarily, could delay or lessen that impact. But it’s unlikely that price hikes will be totally avoided. Electronics will still be taxed by previous (non-“reciprocal”) tariffs — and potentially under additional, sector-specific levies down the road.

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It would also be incredibly difficult for companies to change their supply chains. The Trump administration argues that tariffs will entice big names like Apple, for example, to make iPhones in the U.S. for the first time. But Apple has spent decades building up a finely calibrated supply chain in China — and it would take years and cost billions of dollars to build new plants in the U.S.

Dipanjan Chatterjee, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, said in a note Monday that Apple should continue “business-as-usual” supply chain diversification and have “Plan B” pricing for different product lines — while pausing before taking action to reduce risk and working on the company’s relationship with both U.S. and Chinese governments to avoid blowback.

Trump signaled on Monday that he had spoken to Apple CEO Tim Cook before exempting electronics from some of his China tariffs — telling reporters that he had “helped” Cook with the partial reprieve, while separately saying he plans to provide temporary exemptions for auto makers that may also need “a little bit of time.” The Associated Press reached out to Apple for statement.

How is Wall Street reacting?

Tariffs have plunged financial markets worldwide into turmoil — particularly battering stocks following of Trump’s sweeping announcement on April 2. That cooled after news of this partial electronics exemption, as well as last week’s pause of steeper tariffs outside of China.

As of Monday afternoon, the S&P 500 was 0.2% higher, though trading was still shaky after it gave back most of its early gain of 1.8%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 57 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.1%

Still, the relief could be fleeting. Uncertainty remains high for many companies trying to make long-term plans when conditions seem to change daily.

“Businesses thrive on stability because they plan around rules of engagement … Ergo, markets perform better when businesses are confident that the rules are really the rules,” Chatterjee wrote Monday. Still, he added, businesses will need to avoid knee-jerk reactions while evaluating risk. “When Friday’s policies are thrown out with Sunday’s brunch leftovers, companies will resort to one primary strategy: do as little as possible and thereby do no harm.”

AP Writers Josh Boak in Washington, Mae Anderson in Nashville and Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Stevie Nicks will return to the road for a nine date tour that includes an Aug. 19 stop at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster.

Nicks, 76, joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Two years later, the duo helped the band make “Rumours,” which has since become one of the best-selling albums of all time, with more than 20 million copies sold in the United States alone.

Fleetwood Mac went on a hiatus after 1979’s “Tusk.” Two years later, Nicks released her debut solo album “Bella Donna,” which spawned the hit duets “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (with Tom Petty) and “Leather and Lace” (with Don Henley) as well as what became her signature song, “Edge of Seventeen.” Her sophomore record “The Wild Heart” included the single “Stand Back,” which features an uncredited Prince on synthesizer.

The “Rumours”-era lineup of Fleetwood Mac reunited for a wildly popular 1997 tour and Nicks spent the next few decades playing with the band while also maintaining her solo career.

She headlined Xcel Energy Center in 2016 and the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand the following year. In 2018, she joined a new version of Fleetwood Mac — which featured the Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell and Crowded House’s Neil Finn in place of Buckingham — for a tour that hit Xcel Energy Center that October.

On Nov. 30, 2022, Nicks’ bandmate Christine McVie died at the age of 79. In several interviews in the time since, Nicks has said McVie’s death means the end of Fleetwood Mac.

Nicks is the first woman to have been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first with Fleetwood Mac in 1998 and then as a solo artist in 2019.

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By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Venezuelan man facing misdemeanor charges in New Hampshire was apprehended in a courthouse by federal agents who also knocked over a bystander as they tackled him.

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What Rights Do Immigrants Have?

Recently released security camera footage from Nashua Circuit Court shows two agents throwing Arnuel Marquez Colmenarez to the floor and handcuffing him on Feb. 20. An older man using a cane to walk also ended up flat on his back.

Marquez Colmenarez, 33, had been charged Feb. 9 with drunken driving, driving without a license and failing to provide information after an accident. He was heading to his arraignment on those charges when he was apprehended, Nashua Police say.

Jared Neff, the court liaison officer for the Hudson Police Department, said he was in the prosecutor’s office when he heard a loud commotion near the elevators.

“There were voices yelling ‘Stop!’ and then a loud ‘bang’ which sounded like people had fallen on the ground and were actively fighting and struggling,” he wrote in an incident report.

Neff said he helped restrain Marquez Colmenarez, whom he described as actively resisting attempts to handcuff him. The agents were working on orders to detain immigrants in the country illegally, Neff said. They told Neff they had tried to detain Marquez Colmenarez quietly in the elevator, but he had fled.

A judge later issued a bench warrant after he failed to appear for his arraignment. The prosecutor handling the case wasn’t contacted by federal agents before the arraignment and didn’t witness the arrest, police said.

As of Monday, Colmenaraz was being held at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas, according to an online database. The agency did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Immigration officers were a growing presence at courthouses during President Donald Trump’s first term, prompting pushback from judges and other local officials. The president has gone further in his second term by repealing a policy in place since 2011 for agents to generally avoid such places as schools, houses of worship and hospitals.

Under current policy, immigration officials can make arrests “in or near courthouses when they have credible information that leads them to believe the targeted alien(s) is or will be present” and as long as they are not prohibited from doing so by state or local law.

In Boston, an ICE agent was held in contempt last month after he detained a suspect while he was on trial.