Crime & Safety

Woman Accused of Violating No-Contact Order from Jail

Tara Catherine Cahill is charged with making 99 phone calls to her victim from the Ramsey County Jail.

A woman from Savage is accused of violating a domestic abuse no-contact order by making dozens of phone calls to a Burnsville woman – from jail.

Tara Catherine Cahill, 24, is charged with one felony count of violating a no-contact order, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

According to the complaint against Cahill, filed in Dakota County District Court in Hastings, Cahill was ordered last Aug. 6 to have no contact with the victim, whether she was released on bond or whether she was in custody.

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She subsequently pleaded guilty to violating the no-contact order and was released on probation on the stipulation that she have no further contact with the victim.

In mid-September, the victim reported to Burnsville police that she had received numerous phone calls from Cahill, and that she had answered one of the calls and told Cahill to stop calling her.

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An investigator determined that Cahill made the calls while in the Ramsey County Jail. A call log showed that between last Aug. 5 and Sept. 10, Cahill made 99 calls to the victim, according to the complaint.

The complaint notes that most of the calls lasted 60 seconds or less. A Ramsey County corrections officer reported to investigators that it takes the Ramsey County Jail phone system 60 seconds to connect a call, so calls of that duration might not have been answered.

The investigator tracked down four phone conversations between Cahill and the victim in which the caller identified herself as Tara.

In late November, Cahill admitted to a Burnsville officer that she had contacted the victim in spite of the no-contact order, the complaint says. Cahill told police that she repeatedly contacted the victim because she “wanted to know what [the victim’s] thoughts were on their relationship at that point.”

Cahill’s criminal record shows convictions for domestic assault in July 2009 and March 2010.

She is scheduled to make a first appearance on the latest charge against her June 6 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.


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