Eagan Police Department 3830 Pilot Knob Rd Eagan, MN 55122 651) 675- 5700 Case #: EA18002830 Incident #: EA18002830 Event 3830 PILOT KNOB RD EAGAN, MINNESOTA 55122 DESCRIPTION OF EVENT: CIVIL Reported Date/Time: 05/24/2018 09:08:00 Occurred Start Date/Time (if unk, use Rpt date/time): 05/24/2018 09:08:00 Time Assigned: 09:14 Time Arrived: 09:23 Status (enter OPEN or CLOSED): CLOSED Case Disposition: EXCEPTIONALLY CLEARED Synopsis: Civil Matter A Rosemount resident reported that an Eagan based blogger posted a manufactured likeness of a booking photo of them on the blog. Advised to contact civil attorney, the photo turned out to be a valid public booking photo. Civil Matter. Person Reporting Incident Data (1) SHIMOTA, MICHELLE L MACDONALD DOB: 11/05/1961 Age: 56 Sex: FEMALE Height: Address: 2800 130TH ST W City: ROSEMOUNT State: MINNESOTA Zip Code: 55068 Cell Phone: 612-554-0932 Driver License Number: Offenses (1) MISCIV MISC PUBLIC CIVIL MATTER 9000 NON-REPORTABLE 9999 Offense Disposition: EXCEPTIONALLY CLEARED Narrative (1) MAIN REPORT REUSS/ 75 MIKE 33075 33075 2018REUSS, 05/24/ On 05/ 24/ 2018 at 0908 hours, I was dispatched with Michelle Macdonald, Printed On 06/18/2018 to the lobby of the police department to meet who wanted to file a complaint against an Eagan based blogger Page 1 of 2 Printed By VASQUEZ, LYNN Eagan Police Department 3830 Pilot Knob Rd Eagan, MN 55122 651) 675- 5700 Case #: EA18002830 Incident #: EA18002830 because she believed he had posted a photo of her on his blog that she believed to be defamatory. Michelle said this particular blogger follows court cases that Michelle was involved in, which is apparently why he has been posting stuff about her on his website. The website is http://www.missinginminnesot www. missinginminnesota. com. a.com/ At this point, I am not going to name the owner of the website because it was later determined that there was no wrongdoing. However, when I initially took the report from Michelle, she said that this blogger had posted a photo on the website that he was claiming was a booking photo. She claimed that that photo in fact was not an arrest booking photo, that it was a photo that he had taken of her in a public place and had altered it, sent it to arrestedminnesota. booking photo posting website, and then he posted it from there. com, which is a So she said that he created it, send it to them, and then reposted it, so she believed that that was criminal defamation that he would create a booking photo using her image. I told her I wasn’ t sure that that was going to be the case and I strongly advised her to pursue civil action against this particular blogger that has been posting these things. When I ran Michelle’ s name to get her information into FBR, I did see that she had two DWI arrests, which would indicate that she probably had a booking photo. I then checked for her name in MRAP and under the name Macdonald nothing came back. However, when I ran her in the car in basis NCIC, she came back with a last name of Shimota. and I came up with a 2013 booking photo from a DWI arrest. I then checked that in MRAP That booking photo matched the photo that the blogger had posted on his website. Therefore, there does not to be any defamation. She can still take civil action to have him remove it, but it does in fact appear that the photo that was posted is her publicly accessible Dakota County booking photo. I did tell her that I would do an information report, which I did, but I did strongly advise her to seek civil assistance. She had claimed that she was an attorney. This case is advise/assist and there is no further investigation. sb Officer (1) Reporting Officer: Printed On 06/18/2018 00REUSS, MIKE (33075) 05/ 24/ 2018 13:46: Page 2 of 2 Printed By VASQUEZ, LYNN