Crime & Safety

Burnsville Police Arrest Man Accused of Providing Imaginary Addresses

Katarve Tavonn Edwards is charged with a felony count of failing to register as a predatory offender.

A St. Paul man who has repeatedly failed to register as a predatory offender is accused of doing the same in Burnsville earlier this month – and running out on a $65 cab fare.

Katarve Tavonn Edwards, also known as Katarve Tanvonna Edwards, 32, faces a felony charge of failing to register as a predatory offender, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He’s also charged with misdemeanor theft, which has a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Edwards, who was arrested last week, remained in the Dakota County Jail Monday on a $60,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled for Sept. 12 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.

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According to the criminal complaint, Edwards was convicted in 2000 of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Ramsey County, and after that conviction was required to register as a predatory offender.

He was convicted in 2008 of failing to register as a predatory offender in Ramsey County, and in 2010 of failing to register in Dakota County.

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On Aug. 15, a cab driver contacted Burnsville police and reported that he had given a man a ride from Regions Hospital in St. Paul to Rambush Mobile Home Park on Burnsville Parkway. When they arrived, the man – identified as Edwards – ran away without paying the fare, the driver told police.

Edwards left a number of items inside the cab when he fled, including a Ramsey County identification card and paperwork from the Minnesota Department of Corrections and Predatory Offender Office, the complaint says.

As police were speaking to residents in the area, Edwards approached them on foot and admitted that he didn’t have the money to pay the $65 cab fare, and that he was in the area visiting his grandmother.

Edwards told police that his grandmother lived at an address that didn’t exist, according to the complaint.

Department of Corrections records show that Edwards was released from the prison in Rush City on Aug. 11 and told his case manager that his registered address would be Lot 114 at the mobile home park in Burnsville. When police checked that lot, they found that it was abandoned.

Edwards also gave police an address in St. Paul where he said he was living, but that address was also nonexistent, according to the complaint.


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