Caught a Creeper in My Woods!

Honestly, Officer Steve, it gave me the the creeper pedo stalker vibe because he was just laying there staring intently into my neighbor's house. >> Okay. >> And when you say obstinate, what would be what? Like, did you have a conversation with him or he just wouldn't answer you or >> Well, I I I stopped cuz I seen him looking into the neighbor's house. I'm like, "What are you doing?" >> Thank you for calling the city of Modota Heights Police Department. Please listen closely to the following options. To speak with an officer or dispatch, please press one. To speak, >> police and fire, how can I help you? >> Yeah. Hi, I need to report an incident that happened last night. >> And what exactly are you reporting? Uh, I came home around 9:30 p.m. last night and as I was pulling up the street, I found a man laying half in my woods and partially in the street staring into my neighbor's home and they have two small children. >> And then did you end up calling at all then or did he end up leaving? >> No. So I stopped when I seen him and I said, "What are you doing?" and he was laying there and he got he jumped up and he said why' and I said because you're on my land and he said oh and he starts to walk up the street now it's a deadend road and I says where are you going what do you think you're doing he says he looks at me he says why what's it your business and I says well because it's a deadend road and you have no business up at the end of that street so he turned around and he walked down the street and I pulled in. I had probably to drive maybe 40 more feet just to pull in my driveway and I wanted to get my uh son and my wife in safely. And I grabbed a flashlight cuz I wanted to make sure this guy wasn't, you know, going into the woods. And when I came out probably a minute to two minutes later, there was no trace of him. I walked all the way up the block looking for him. I walked down the block. I walked through our woods. I walked all the way around our property and I couldn't find him. He was dressed in he had a black coat on. He had black ripped up jeans. He was about 6'4 with a shaved head, a white guy, and he looked like he was out of sorts, but he also looked like he was stalking the neighbor's house. He looked like he was looking directly into their home. And I tal So I went over to talk to the neighbors and I [snorts] haven't been able to get a hold of all of the neighbors, but one of the neighbors reported that she seen him at 8:30 p.m. that night. So he'd been laying there in the woods staring into the neighbor's property for almost an hour when I discovered him and chased him off. Oh, and by the way, I'm recording this, so I just want to let you know that. So, >> okay, that's fine. This is a recorded line as well. Okay. Um, I will go ahead and have an officer reach out to you. Do you want them to stop out to your house or do you just want a phone call? >> Last year, I made a video about how bad the homeless had gotten in Minneapolis. And it had received millions upon millions of views and was shared thousands of times. So, the amount of views that video has got is countless at this point. If I was going to guess, somewhere between 50 and 100 million views probably total. Coincidentally, the same evening that I released that video, I was permanently kicked off from Facebook. I still don't have access to Facebook at this point. But also, since that time frame, Minneapolis has taken drastic steps to remove the home homeless population from their city. But that doesn't mean they're curing the homeless. It doesn't mean they're helping the homeless. They are physically removing them. They're getting they're kicking them out. And these are people that have nowhere to go. And as a demolition contractor, I can tell you that uh we were never allowed to demo a building without doing pest control first because when we found old abandoned buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul, if you just knocked it down, all the rats and mice that were in the building would just leave the building and go into the neighbors properties. So, they had a requirement that before you could knock down a house, you had to eliminate all of the pests. Otherwise, you're just spreading the nuisance across to other people. And when Minneapolis started to go in and destroy these homeless encampments all over Minneapolis, they didn't give these guys an alternative. There was no alternative. So, where do you think they're going to go? They're going to spread out into the suburbs. And unfortunately, the suburbs means they're going to be spreading into areas where people may not have seen them before. And I think that's what's happening because as you drive around this neck of the woods, this is not the first incident. This one is the closest to home since he was on my land. But Frankie and I were driving home just the other day and we were a few blocks away and we watched this guy. He's walking down the street and pretty soon he's kind of stumbling and Frankie and I are watching him as we're driving. So I slow down and this guy just slowly falls over. But I'm just going to show you what he did. Just kind of does this thing and then lays like this and just lays there. Doesn't doesn't move. Now Frankie and I, well, we should have stopped and helped this guy out, but then the radar goes up that you see all these videos where stuff like this is a setup. You've got to be extra extra cautious because it's no longer safe. It's no longer safe for uh for for women to go to the the their cars alone in the city even during the day because it's set up. There's video after video of uh of the ways these criminals are getting people. There's reports um my neighbor just told me a report. If you go on the Next Door app, at least in this neck of the woods, there's reports of people just randomly walking into other people's homes and saying, "Hey, is John home?" when John doesn't even live there, but they're just walking in um randomly. Now, last night I I'm going through and talking to all my neighbors, letting them know what's going on. I don't want them to have to deal with this. Uh they're all older, you know, except for uh one of them, and the neighbor that isn't older than me has two small children, so I I want them to all feel safe. So, I'm making sure that they all know. But I talked to one of the neighbors, and she said she seen him out there at 8:30 last night. So that means this guy had been laying there for an hour before I discovered him staring into my neighbor's home and it just was this creeper stalker vibe and he was very obsinate. You know, if you were, you know, caught in someone's land, it was obsinate. Okay, here we go. Here's the police genetics. Hi, this is Officer Steve Hillier of Menota Heights Police Department. >> Hi, Officer Steve. Um, is that the right way to say it for you, sir? >> It sure it sure is. Yeah. >> Okay. My name's Stan. I'm recording this just so you know. I just wanted to let you know. >> That's fine. >> Okay. >> I know who you are. I was the guy who stopped out when you were bushwhacking over at the old uh mall. You were testing out a lawnmower. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, god. Small world. Small world, man. >> Yeah. And I follow you. >> Oh, thank you. >> On Instagram. Yep. Or YouTube. >> So, so we had an incident last night and um I I I I sent I gave the message to the dispatch, but I guess I didn't give them all the information. >> I don't There was a little bit more there that I didn't really fill in. So, um but go ahead. >> What would what would you like me to where would you like me to start? >> Well, let's see. I have it. You came home around 9:30. >> Yep. >> And there was a male laying half in the woods and half in the street. >> Yes. steering into your neighbor's house at 7:15. >> Yes, I I believe that's your address. Yeah. >> Okay. And then proceeded to walk up the street towards the dead end road. >> Yes. >> I'm assuming that's like by your driveway that goes towards the tennis courts there. >> Yes, exactly. >> In that park. Okay. All right. >> And we have You went in to get a flashlight. You came out and the guy is gone. >> Yes. >> But it was a white male wearing black coat, black ripped jeans, shaved head. >> He's about 6'4, very obstinate. And I I I'm going through and letting all my neighbors know cuz I don't want, you know, the they're older. I don't want them to have to deal with this. >> And um one of my older neighbors, she said she seen him at 8:30 sitting there with his head between his knees. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Around the same spot. >> Okay. So, I don't know if this was I mean, it honestly, Officer Steve, it gave me the the creeper pedo stalker vibe cuz he was just laying there staring intently into my neighbor's house. >> Okay. >> Um, so it was like, >> was [clears throat] there anything going on at your neighbor's house? No, you saw him. >> Like no lights on or were there lights on in the house? >> Lights were on. Lights were definitely on. And unfortunately, you can you can see directly into my neighbor's house like a fishbowl. So, let's see. You saw him about 9:30. Your neighbor saw him about 8:30. >> Yep. >> Um, >> okay. And was it that was he in that same spot? >> According according to her, now she didn't physically show me his exact location, but from the description, it sounded like he was in the in the very the general vicinity and he was hard to see. >> So, he was laying >> guest with a black jacket on. >> Yeah. Well, and being partially in the woods like that, so he wasn't trying to be discovered, but I don't know. It almost felt like he was waiting for a ride or somebody cuz, you know, we've had problems up here before. So, >> yep. >> Um, >> so when I pulled up last night, I found him right here like this, not moving, staring directly into my neighbor's home. And then when I confronted him, instead of walking down the street and away from the property, that's my driveway. He started to walk up the dead end right up into the neighbors properties. You know, I had my I had my cars broken into in my driveway up here. So, as you guys know, cuz you helped me with that, too. >> Yep. Okay. Um, trying to think. Was there something that was prohibitive? Why you didn't call us when it happened? Not trying to blame you. I'm just >> uh Yeah, I said >> I I was frazzled. [laughter] >> Okay. >> Yeah. I didn't I didn't know was I should have I didn't think about it. My So, when I came out, I I walked up and down all the streets. I looked for him. I walked through my woods. Frankie was here. He was out in the backyard. I talked to him. He didn't see him. And I was just like, "Oh, yeah. I succeeded in my mission. I chased him off." And it wasn't until 3:00 a.m. this morning that I'm laying there going, >> "Why the hell didn't I call the police?" >> Yeah. >> I don't, you know, it was just one of them things like, >> but I guess it's cuz I'm half Polish. I I got an excuse. [laughter] >> Well, just know that you never has to have to hesitate calling us. That's why we're here. So, >> okay. >> We'll we'll do all the flashlight looking around and all that stuff for you. So >> yeah, my wife my wife kind of mentioned that too. She's like, "That was so dumb. You walked out there all by yourself." I'm like, "No, the cat followed me." [laughter] >> Um, I don't know if this is the same person because the everything matches except for the hair. >> Um, we did I did uh run into a person experiencing homelessness um up at Ivy Hills Park um this morning. We got a call on him sitting at the picnic table. and made contact with him. It was someone that I had had contact with on Saturday as well. Like he was found over by uh in a shipping container or, you know, one of those metal tool boxes, storage containers for the when you're at a job site type of thing. >> Okay. >> Um at the Excel Energy Plant and they had called on him there. I I gave him a ride to uh homeless services and and apparently he came back today or maybe last night. But um and then I spent like an hour and a half trying to find him some shelter and whatnot, but everything matches except for he doesn't have a shaved head. Um >> but it was very dark and he was very obstinate. So >> yeah, >> uh I kind was it he was it was a white guy though, right? Kind of taller white guy, bigger. He was no skinny little dude. >> Um >> he wasn't fat and he wasn't scrawny. So >> yeah. Yeah. It looked like he could hold his own. So >> Yep. Okay. >> And when you say opsson, what would be what like did you have a conversation with him or he just wouldn't answer you or? >> Well, I I stopped because I seen him looking into the neighbor's house. I'm like, "What are you doing?" >> And he gets up and he goes, "Why?" >> And I says, "Well, because you're laying on my land. This is my land." So, he starts walking up the street toward the neighbor. And I says, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, wrong way. You have no business up there." He's like, "Why? What's it your business?" And I says, "It's a dead end street. You there's nothing up there for you." So instead of you know like hey sorry I didn't know this was you know I mean that's the way I would do it but that's just me officer Steve. So I was like uh you know it was just the vibe of obstinence. >> Yep. >> Um which you know and [clears throat] you know rightfully so. If he's homeless and not not doing good that's obviously he's not having a good time. So >> Yep. Well I can't say for 100% certainty but I think this is probably the same guy. >> Black black coat ripped up jeans. Yep. Well, he had um there were sweatpants which were blue on part of them and then kind of a lighter color down below. >> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They look to me it looked ripped up. >> Yeah. Looked ripped up in the in the you know the little bit of light that I had cuz it was 9:30 so it was dark. >> Yeah. Yep. >> Um Okay. >> Yeah. It sounds like that's probably him. And I I gave him a ride into St. Paul to get some housing resources >> since he's not a Dakota County resident. um we didn't have any uh programs available for him. So they referred me to Ramsey County. So I I physically drove him back to an outreach in Ramsey County. >> Dude, that's awesome. >> So that he can advocate and get him some housing. So >> All right. Well, thank you. I I appreciate that. I don't think I mean if you're familiar with them, you know them. I don't think there's any reason for you to come out then. So if unless you feel like you need to, that's up to you. No, I think um well it would have been best out when it happened, but um you did let us know, but I think that's probably him. Just the way you described his demeanor and whatnot. >> That's kind of how he was. So >> Okay. Okay. >> Especially the second time cuz I walked up to him and called him by his first name. He's like, "Why? Why did you call me that name? Why did without even asking." I said, "Cuz I talked to you a couple days ago on Saturday." And uh then he wouldn't admit it. And then finally after about a few minutes he's like I'm like you're I need your name. He's like you're Jordan, right? He's like yeah. >> Oh boy. Okay. >> So >> I'll keep an eye out for Jordan then. And if I see him I'm calling you first. >> Yeah. And and even if it's even if it's not Jordan, call us. >> Okay. >> Anything like that in the future. >> We'll do that. >> Good. Stan. >> Yeah. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. And I'm going to I we do a little briefing at our shift briefing and I let all the other officers know what we've had during the day. So, okay. >> I'll let them let them know that he may have been this person in this call as well. >> Okay. So, >> thank you, Officer Steve. >> You're welcome. Have a good one, Stan. >> You too. >> Bye. >> Bye. >> That's a good dude, man. That's a good dude. I'm telling you. Uh my Mod Heights Police Force is they've always been freaking phenomenal. In fact, there was a guy, Officer Scott Patrick, way back in the day. I'll just share a quick story about these guys and then I'll let you guys get on your way. Um, Officer Scott Patrick, it had to be many, many years ago. Um, this officer with Modota Heights Police Force. I was working in my front driveway and I see this police car drive up and I'm like, "Oh, what do the popo want?" Right? You know, I'm always thinking, uh, am I in trouble or what have you or what's going on? somebody else in trouble and he drives by and he walks he drives back and he just stops and starts shooting with me just BSing and I'm like ah that's a cool dude [snorts] and like a couple weeks later he drives back up and he just stops and gets out and we just start talking. I it this officer made me feel safe and he made me feel like I was part of an actual community to the point where I felt safe enough to ask him some very straightforward to the-p point questions that you normally wouldn't ask an officer that you don't know. But this guy just made you feel like he was on your side. Officer Scott Patrick, unfortunately he was killed in action just up the street from here. not five blocks away as the crow flies from a a a bad dude. Let's just say that. Um so I I I invited officer Scott Patrick up to the front door and I says, you know, if I ever have an incident where someone is breaking in my house and I have to defend myself with lethal force, what are the consequences towards me? And I I guess I guess more of what I would say, you know, that was a a good way of saying it. I guess I asked him, can I Swiss cheese the guy? Can I turn him into Swiss cheese? Can I defend myself without worry about repercussions? And he says, "Listen, if he's in your house, you can absolutely defend yourself with lethal force, but if he's outside of your house, you cannot." And I says, "Okay, okay." So then I start playing through scenarios cuz I'm just BSing with him. And I'm like, "Okay, so he's in the door and he's breaking in and I catch him while he's coming through the door." He says he has to be in the house. If you start filling him full of lead, that wasn't his words. I'm now using my own words. If you start filling him full of lead and he's outside of the house and you end the conflict with him, you know, being dead right outside your door, he told me, "Drag him back in." I'm not joking. Make sure he's in the house while you do this. Once he's outside of your door, you can't do it. But when he's inside of your castle, inside of your home, you absolutely can protect yourself in any way, shape, or form. And I was like, that was when a level of trust was established that God, I wish I wish it was like that with with all police officers. I mean, it was it just makes you believe in them again. You know what I mean? It's not that I never didn't believe in them, but God, there's just so much animosity going on right now that it's hard to hard to fathom. But, uh, it's getting close to home and I think it's getting close to home across the nation. So, I hope whatever's happening in your neck of the woods, you're safe. I really do. I hope that uh you're safe. your family safe and you're good. And I hope nothing ever happens to you guys. And I pray for all of those those people that are trying to live on the streets. That's that's the…