That’s the phrase used when some incident occurs and the perpetrator has a long rap sheet and should be behind bars.
Luckily, the incident I mentioned yesterday, at the suburban Minneapolis corporate campus of United Healthcare ended peacefully enough, with no recorded casualties.
Ian Stanley Wagner, aged 26, is in custody in the Hennepin County jail, facing four felony charges.
Wagner, also from suburban Minneapolis, allegedly showed up at the United Healthcare campus at 11 am yesterday morning with a loaded .38 and already on the phone with the FBI and 911. He failed to follow through (luckily) with any of his threats of violence and was taken into custody 45 minutes later, but not before eight nearby office buildings had to be put on lockdown.
He apparently suffers from mental health issues and has a prior felony conviction. By my count, prior to yesterday, he had six (6) active cases against him, filed in just the last year. I’m still digging through the case files, so that number may be lowballing it.
At the time of his arrest, Wagner had an active felony warrant outstanding, on an unrelated case filed just two weeks ago.
But, apparently, none of those cases were serious enough to keep him off the streets and out of corporate parking lots.
His apparent motive, to the extent one can be discerned, was “to send a message.”
Message received.
Wagner is due back in court tomorrow on the United Healthcare incident, with other court dates scheduled tomorrow and extending to the middle of next week, to address some of the other cases against him.
