Wright County Sheriff Gary Miller understands the pressures that a career in law enforcement entails. As a 30-plus-year veteran of the department, he is all too familiar with the stresses his employees face and how it can change them over time.

“Law enforcement jobs damage people,” he said, pointing to higher-than-average divorce, suicide and chemical abuse rates.

Two Chaska men were arrested on felony drug charges last Thursday.

According to the Carver County Sheriff's Office, agents of the Southwest Metro Drug Task Force went to Cy's Bar on July 15 after receiving information of illegal drug activity. Upon investigating they observed a transaction between two men at the bar which appeared to be a drug deal. When the two men separated, deputies stopped and searched them.

By Shannon Fiecke, Correspondent

Police thought they had their man following a bank robbery Friday afternoon at the TCF Bank in Cub Foods in Shakopee.

A witness recognized the camouflaged hat-wearing robber, who was also picked out of a photo lineup by bank employees. He was arrested, but later released.

“He looked just like the guy,” said Shakopee police Capt. Craig Robson.

A Chanhassen man has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to third degree criminal sexual conduct.

According to a press release from the Carver County Attorney's Office, Nicholas Scott Foley was charged with the felony offense for incidents that occurred with a 14-year-old Waconia girl between December 2007 and February 2008.

It was supposed to be a simple evening walk to check on her garden plot near Winkel Park. But before Mary Javurek could get more than a glimpse of her green beans, she found her socks soaked in blood and a stinging pain radiating from her calves. In the blink of an eye, Javurek had been bit by a dog.

“It bit me before I had any chance,” she recalled. “All I could hear was a horrible growl.”

The Carver County Sheriff’s Office has received reports of four residential burglaries in rural Carver County on July 12.

Each of the four burglaries appear to be similar, according to a press release from the Carver County Sheriff’s Office. They were all committed during daytime hours while residents were away. Each of the homes were ransacked.

Items taken included jewelry, coins, pictures, electronics and firearms. Doors were forced open in two of the burglaries.

Jesus Julian Del Rio, 18, of Chaska was sentenced for a criminal vehicular operation on July 9, according to a press release from Carver County Attorney Jim Keeler.

The case stemmed from a near-fatal single-car crash that occurred in Chaska on April 12, 2010. A passenger in Del Rio’s car suffered life-threatening injuries that resulted in partial paralysis and possible permanent brain damage, as well as other injuries, the release stated.

Carver County motorists will face enhanced speed enforcement patrols throughout July as part of a statewide campaign administrated by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety.

During 2007–2009, speed was a contributing factor in seven fatalities in Carver County and 325 traffic deaths statewide, according to a press release from the Carver County Sheriff’s Office. Speed is the most commonly reported contributing factor in fatal crashes.