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officers searched the vehicle and found numerous stolen mail, including the victim’s mail. Further investigation showed an interview with the passenger who admitted that her boyfriend was driving through Mounds View stealing mail out of mailboxes. The case is with the county attorney awaiting charges. Assault Mounds View patrol officers were called to take a report of an alleged sexual assault. The complainant reported that she was assaulted and groped by her Uber driver. Further investigation continued with an interview of the driver. The driver stated there is no assault or sexual misconduct and the passenger had been yelling at him for missing a turn. After several minutes of verbal beratement, the driver told the passenger to get out of the car, which then the passenger punched the driver on the head. Investigator Erickson served Uber with a search warrant requesting video footage of the vehicle, which then proved the driver’s story of the passenger yelling, swearing, and berating the driver and capturing footage of the passenger punching the driver in the head as she got out of the car. After a full investigation of the case, the passenger was charged with 5th degree Assault. 2nd Degree Burglary and Possession of a Firearm Mounds View Police Officers were dispatched to the 8400 block of Red Oak Drive for a burglary in progress. The homeowner had returned home after being away for a week. When returning home, she saw a male walking around the north end of her house and take off running down the street. The victim then found that the male forced entry in her house, ransacked through the house, and stole jewelry, watches, and a Glock firearm. Officers quickly created a perimeter and searched the area for the suspect with the assistance of K9’s and helicopters. The suspect was inevitably found by officers hiding in a back yard. He matched the male the victim had seen and was found with all the victim’s stolen property. Investigator Erickson continued the investigation by processing the crime scene for DNA, obtaining a search warrant for the suspect’s DNA, Interviewing the suspect, listening to jail phone calls by the suspect, and seizing the suspect’s cell phone, and obtaining a search warrant to forensically analyze the phone. These investigative methods insured that the arrested male was the suspect that burglarized the victim’s house by matching DNA, and cell phone analysis showing his searches of the house and text conversations with contacts putting him in the area of the burglary at that time. The DNA that was obtained and shoe prints of the suspect also matched a separate unsolved burglary that occurred one month earlier in Mounds View. The suspect was criminally charged with both burglaries. Death Investigation Officers were called for a suspicious death investigation. An adult male was found deceased in the backyard of a residence. Investigator Erickson completed a scene investigation, including scene photographs, interviews, and contacts with the medical examiner. The male had succumbed to several injuries of head trauma and numerous lacerations. The manner of death was ruled a suicide.