Crime, Law and Justice

Suspect arrested in deaths of woman, child in Cloquet

Updated: March 9, 11:25 a.m.

Police in northern Minnesota have arrested a suspect in the deaths of a woman and a 1-year-old child at a home on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation.

Authorities were called to the home in Cloquet on Saturday for a welfare check on the woman and her child. Officers checked the home but were unable to contact or see anyone inside. Officers later obtained a search warrant and found the bodies of a 27-year-old woman and an 18-month-old boy inside the house.

Police arrested the 33-year-old suspect from Cloquet shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday with the help of a state patrol helicopter and a K-9 unit from Carlton County. The suspect apparently had a relationship with the victims or otherwise knew them.

Names of the victims are being withheld until they are identified and family members notified. Autopsies will be conducted by the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Ramsey, Minn.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension was called in to provide crime lab services.

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