East Isles Blotter: Week of April 27 — A Quiet Week on the Blotter

The reports, drawn from the city's Police Incidents 2026 open-data file, were a bike theft on the 2400 block of Humboldt Avenue S. (June 2), theft of motor-vehicle parts on the 1500 block of Lagoon Avenue (June 2), and a fourth-degree assault at 27th Street W. and East Lake of the Isles Parkway (June 4). The city publishes only block-level locations, not exact addresses. These are initial reports; anyone later arrested or charged is presumed innocent.

Two of the three fit the pattern that dominates the neighborhood. Over the 30 days ending June 4, East Isles logged 23 reports, 14 of them vehicle crimes such as stolen cars, theft from cars and parts strips. The 1500 block of Lagoon Avenue and the 2700 block of Irving Avenue S. each drew multiple vehicle reports in that span, the closest thing to recurring hot spots in the data.

The practical takeaways track the offenses: lock and register bikes, leave nothing visible in a parked car, and file a report even for a minor theft, because the block-level patterns above surface only when residents do. Counts come from Minneapolis police open data and may be revised as cases are reviewed.