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Washington County attorney outlines crime trends, juvenile trafficking work and digital evidence use
Summary
Washington County Attorney Kevin Magnuson briefed the Forest Lake City Council on case loads, rising pursuits and juvenile trafficking efforts and urged local partnerships on technology and victim recovery services.
Kevin Magnuson, Washington County attorney, told the Forest Lake City Council on an evening presentation that his office receives roughly 1,500 law-enforcement referrals a year and charges about 75 percent of those cases.
Magnuson said the office prosecutes about 1,200 charged cases annually and that most prosecutions end in plea agreements rather than trials. "I don't think of a plea agreement as selling out," he said, adding that his office tries to match the punishment to the facts of each case.
The county attorney placed public safety at the top of the office's priorities and described several trends the office has tracked, including a spike in motor-vehicle thefts during the COVID period and an…
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