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With lack of evidence, probe of Metro Gang Strike Force hits dead end

No charges filed, but investigators issue stinging report on disbanded force

By David Hanners
dhanners@pioneerpress.com

Updated: 09/08/2010 11:50:14 PM CDT

The cops who might've had dirt wouldn't talk, the cops who did talk had no dirt, and the people who thought they had dirt couldn't keep their stories straight.

In brief, that's how Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman on Wednesday summed up the findings of a special criminal inquiry into the defunct Metro Gang Strike Force: Two "intensive" months of digging by six seasoned investigators turned up no criminal wrongdoing.

It doesn't mean there wasn't illegal behavior, Freeman said. It just means there was nothing prosecutors could find that rose to the level of a crime that could be proved in court.

In announcing the findings in a 19-page report, the prosecutor minced few words in his criticism of the former gang unit's commander, Ron Ryan Sr., for not cooperating with investigators and for running a unit where record-keeping was "so bad it was stunning."

The responsibility for problems lay at Ryan's feet, Freeman noted in the report detailing the investigation and its findings.

"It is a tragedy that the commander's failure to meet those responsibilities unfairly tarnished the reputations and careers of the many able and professional officers who served on the (gang unit)," the report said. "Those officers and the public deserved better."

Ryan, who was with the Ramsey County sheriff's office when he was named the unit's commander, has since retired. He did not immediately return a call for comment.

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