Showing posts with label Amecio Navro Enge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amecio Navro Enge. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Amecio Enge: Another Violent Criminal Taken Off the Streets

Post by the Hawthorne Hawkman, image from the Star Tribune.
Editorial note:  I have searched extensively for a photo of Amecio Navaro (also shows up as Navro) Enge, but to no avail.  If any readers can provide one, I will replace the above photo.

The weekend was marred by another tragedy in north Minneapolis when Maurice (Mo) Meeks was killed and another man critically injured when a person named Amecio Navaro (also Navro) Enge drove his vehicle directly into a front porch and a crowd.  He was reportedly intoxicated, it's not known if drugs were involved, and the act was clearly intentional.  Earlier this year, we heard Chief Dolan and Mayor Rybak state that a big cause for the uptick in violent crimes was due to a small number of very violent offenders.  That was a tough pill to swallow for many dealing with the violence on a regular basis, but recent events might bear that theory out to some degree.

This is certainly the case for Navaro Enge, who was NOT a nice man.  He has a rather lengthy criminal history, which we'll get to.  But like Alonzo McCoy, the more telling part of his past may be what he was NOT charged with.  For Enge, that was...