Week In Review: Crime, a new restaurant and a new editor

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The ever popular police blotter made it into the top five for this week. Among the highlights were a call to investigate a first-degree sex crime (more to come on that, we're looking into it), a young Minnetonka man arrested for possession of hypodermic needles and drugs, and many thefts and DWIs.

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Readers took to a shine to a late-coming photo gallery from the opening ceremony at Morgan's on Nicollet, New World Tavern. The new gastropub celebrated its ribbon cutting with fine wines and beer on Friday, much to the delight of local notables. 

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Blanca Isabel Vazquez-Cortes, 32, Raul Perez Garcia, 53, and Salvador Zarate, 21, were arrested after a raid on their home at West 157th Street Court. There authorities allegedly found methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and almost $30,000 in cash. The find came after a long-standing investigation into Twin Cities heroin trafficking.

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This week, Permanent Local Editor Clare Kennedy assumed her position at the Patch helm. Interim Editor Jeff Roberts will stay close at hand as the interim editor for a nearby Patch site.

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This week's top story concerned Kyler Russell Horcher, 21, a predatory offender found to living at Burnsville's Burningham Apartments. Horcher's criminal past includes a 2007 conviction for third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim  between 13 and 15. As a condition of his sentence, he is required to register with the state and inform authorities of his whereabouts at all times. On March 31 that he told them he was living in Cambridge. By April 30, the jig was up, as they say: Burnsville Police found Horcher after responding to a report of a theft at the apartment where he was staying.