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Man with 57 arrests pleads guilty in random Loop pipe attack, will not go to prison




A man with a long history of randomly attacking people in the Loop has pleaded guilty to viciously, randomly attacking a man with a pipe in the heart of downtown, but despite that history, the resolution of the case will not require him to spend any time in prison.

Around 9:45 a.m. on December 8, 2022, a 53-year-old man was walking in the 100 block of West Madison Street when Piere Thorne attacked him from behind with a metal object, according to prosecutors.

Court records state that Thorne, 32, grabbed the object, possibly a metal pipe, from the ground, walked behind the victim, whom he did not know, and struck him in the back of the head. The victim immediately fell to the sidewalk and began bleeding heavily from the back of his head. Prosecutors said he suffered additional injuries to his face when he struck the ground.

In a court filing, prosecutors said his injuries included the loss of several teeth, multiple fractures to his face and jaw, an injury to his nose, lacerations to his chin and exterior scalp, and an abrasion to his left eye. The victim required multiple reconstructive surgeries, and his face has been permanently disfigured, according to prosecutors. ...

Now, Thorne has resolved the case by pleading guilty to a single count of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm. Judge Joanne Rosado sentenced him to four years in prison. However, after receiving credit for 752 days he spent in jail and the standard 50% sentence reduction, Thorne will not spend any time in prison.

Fri, January 16, 2026

A daycare employee in Minnesota confessed to suffocating an eleven-month-old boy to death and attempting to kill a four-month-old girl last fall and is now being charged with second degree murder, and first and third degree assault.

Savage Police Chief Brady Juell shared that the daycare worker, Theah Russell, 18, confessed to “intentionally suffocating " the two babies in an “attention seeking act” when she was arrested on Tuesday.

“She provided detailed descriptions of how she carried out the attempts against the life of the first victim on two separate occasions, and she confessed to the murder of Harvey Muklebust,” Juell said during a press conference.

Police visited Rocking Horse Ranch daycare center on September 22, 2025 to respond to a 911 call reporting that a 11-month-old child, now identified as Harvey Muklebust —was not breathing. Muklebust was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Just hours before that 911 call was made, a four-month-old infant was found with blood around her nose and mouth, but police were not called for that incident.