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| | Re: Closed ammo plant in Arden Hills, mn <Reply # 134 on 9/29/2010 2:20 PM >
| | | I live in the area, and people are being quite reckless there -- enough to make their way into police reports and visible graffiti popping up at the site. Once upon a time, my friends and I could explore there without being disturbed. However, now we stay away. It seems that interest in that site has increased lately. It probably doesn't help that the mystery is taken away with people posting photos of their activities online, or the new "AVAILABLE" signs which have sprung up, or the news articles about this place in the Red Star Tribune. Anyhow, local authorities have been keeping watch on this area. Fence sections surrounding the area which apparently "come loose" are mended. Grass around the edges is mowed. And a friend of mine who is in the military has been in those buildings before; they still are used -- just not for manufacturing munitions. Talk about being chased by a bush may be funny, but it's also true. The guy I know has thrown off grenades in the arsenal manufacturing buildings as part of his practice. All I'm saying is to watch out, because this place isn't as abandoned as some seem to believe. Here are some snippets I pulled out of the police report in the past month. SEPTEMBER 10, 2010: Sheriff’s deputies stopped and identified two men at Hwy 96 and Snelling Avenue Thursday, September 9th. The men were on bicycles and one of them was looking through binoculars at a building at Twin Cities Arsenal Plant. Because of recent thefts of copper pipe and burglaries in the vacant building there, deputies checked the property and found an open loading dock door and evidence that people had recently been inside the building. SEPTEMBER 8, 2010: Stolen property was recovered at the Arden Hills Ammunitions Site, 47xx Hwy 10, about 10 a.m. Friday, September 3rd. Maintenance employees chased off suspects from the site. The suspects had been cutting and stealing metal. AUGUST 20, 2010: A theft occurred at the Arden Hills Ammunitions site, 47xx Hwy 10 Tuesday, August 17th about 11 a.m. Two suspects were seen stealing metal wire and fleeing in a white Ford Crown Victoria with a blue top. The suspects are B/Ms, 30 – 40 YOA, 180 – 200 lbs. One suspect is 6’ – 6’2 and the other is 5’10 – 6’.
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