Charged with violating order for protection
| 12/24/2020 | by Fritz Busch |
BROWN COUNTY — Law enforcement is searching for a 48-year-old Sleepy Eye woman facing a felony domestic abuse charge for violating two previous, qualified domestic violence related offense convictions in the past 10 years.
The charge was filed in Brown County District Court Dec. 23 against Debra J. Bloemke, 204 Elm St. N.E., Sleepy Eye.
According to court documents, Sleepy Eye Police Chief Matt Andres received a phone call at 9 a.m. Dec. 22 from a woman regarding Bloemke contacting her even though there is still an Order For Protection (OFP) in place.
The woman told Andres she lived in another state now and Bloemke has made several recent attempts to contact her, including sending her a video of a park with Christmas lights on the trees and text messages.
In addition, the woman said she had numerous missed calls from Bloemke and that she was in the state she currently lives in to see her in the past.
Andres looked up the OFP and found it expires May 20, 2021. He received email items from the alleged victim including video of Christmas lights in a park that appeared to be lights in the Sleepy Eye Sportsman’s Park display that included a large tree shaped out of lights, which the Sleepy Eye display has.
Police received text messages labeled from the contact “Debra J. Bloemke” that mentioned confirming the Christmas lights video with holiday lights sent.
Andres reviewed missed call logs including seven missed calls from Bloemke between 2:35 and 2:45 a.m., Dec. 19.
Police searched the cell phone number using Cell Hawk and identified the carrier as T-Mobile, drafted a preservation letter and sent it to T-Mobile.
Police signed a search warrant for cell phone records for the cell phone number and faxed a signed search warrant to T-Mobile.
A review of Bloemke’s criminal history showed she was convicted of violating an OFP on Sept. 20, 2019 and convicted of domestic assault on Sept. 10, 2019.
Police requested an arrest warrant as they were unable to locate Bloemke and her whereabouts are unknown.
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