A Minnesota state senator was charged with first-degree burglary, possibly putting the Democrats’ narrow majority in limbo.
Democratic state Sen. Nicole Mitchell was charged with first-degree burglary after a home was broken into in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. According to the complaint, Mitchell robbed her stepmother’s home.
“I was just trying to get a couple of my dad’s things because you wouldn’t talk to me anymore,” Mitchell allegedly said to her stepmother during her arrest. Investigators said Mitchell said her father had recently died and that the stepmother would not talk to Mitchell or other family members.
Democratic state Sen. Nicole Mitchell, right, of Woodbury, speaks with Sen. Robert D. Farnsworth, a Republican from Hibbing, on the floor of the Minnesota Senate on April 2, 2024, at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)
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