Hudson Police Blotter: Beer Can Island was Scene of Bomb Scare

Dog complaint: A 76-year-old woman and 75-year-old man from the 1100 block of Briarwood Court called police on around 9 p.m. on Sept. 2 to complain about a neighbor’s dog. The woman was outside their home when the neighbors’ dog ran after her while barking and growling. The couple wanted police to tell the neighbor to keep the dog leashed. When an officer talked to the dog owner they said the dog is usually on a leash but escaped from the house when the door opened. She agreed to leash the dog.

Stranded: After being stranded on the St. Croix River on a boat with no power a 26-year-old River Falls man and the others on his boat were rescued around 3 a.m. on Sept. 4. He called police concerned because there was "no power, was drifting rapidly toward the shoreline and had no navigation lights on his vessel." Neither Washington nor St. Croix county departments had boats available to rescue the man so the Hudson Police and EMS boat towed the dead boat to shore.

Bomb scare: A St. Croix Sheriff’s Officer saw a "suspicious item" on Beer Can Island around 11 a.m. on Sept. 4 and notified the Hudson Police Department. The item was smaller than a baseball , green and resembled a grenade. With the help of a member of the Hudson Fire Department who is "well versed with IEDs and military munitions," the item was identified as a likely military cluster bomb. The Bloomington Bomb Squad came to the scene and through X-Rays were unable to determine if it was a dangerous item. The potential bomb was transported to the Hudson Landfill where officials were "able to blow it apart without using any high explosives. It was determined that the device was an inert training replica of a cluster bomb" painted military green.

Overslept: A 50-year-old man from Little Canada got a police escort out of the Best Western Hotel, 1616 Crestview Drive, on Sept. 5 around 3:47 p.m. after he outstayed his welcome. Hotel employees called police after the man, who had paid for one night, didn’t checkout on time and failed to answer phone calls or knocks at the door when asked to leave. When police came to the scene and knocked at the door the man quickly responded, said he overslept and did not hear the alerts from the hotel and left under police watch.

Icee abandoned: On Sept. 6 around noon police were called to the intersection of Carmichael and Coulee roads where someone saw a young man get out of his car and put a small box on the median and then leave. Police weren’t able to fine who put the box there but discovered Icee syrup was inside the abandoned box.