The St. Thomas Department of Public Safety alerted students and faculty of four recent burglaries occurring on the Lee and Penny Anderson Arena construction site on the south campus in an email sent to the university community on Wednesday morning.
The four burglaries occurred on Nov. 18, Nov. 27, Dec. 1 and Dec. 9 and Public Safety wrote construction tools were stolen in each case. Public Safety does not have a full list of what was stolen, but “a wide array of hand and power tools,” were stolen, said Aaron Fimon, St. Paul Campus Manager for Public Safety.
Fimon said that he is waiting to hear back from Ryan Construction, who is running construction on the site, on the specifics of what was stolen.
Also on Thursday, Minnesota utility regulators were scheduled to consider approval for a 28-mile leg of a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline.
Summit’s 2,500-mile, $8 billion pipeline would transport planet-warming CO2 emissions from 57 ethanol plants in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska for underground storage in central North Dakota.
The suspect in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO plans to fight extradition to New York to face murder charges, but officials hope to get him back with what’s called a governor’s warrant.
The process could happen quickly or take more than a month. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office on Wednesday had not yet asked Pennsylvania for the warrant after murder charges were filed against Luigi Mangione late Monday in New York.
In the meanwhile, Mangione is being held without bail in western Pennsylvania in the killing of Brian Thompson. He was captured Monday morning while eating breakfast at a McDonald’s in Altoona. Authorities said he was carrying a gun, mask and writings linking him to the slaying.
Adam Mueller can be reached at muel7541@stthomas.edu