A 21-year-old man is facing a felony charge in Douglas County District Court after an Alexandria woman reported receiving voicemails in which he allegedly threatened to kill her and damage her car. Quinten Jon Winter was arrested at his workplace and booked into the Douglas County jail following the report.
According to a criminal complaint described by MN CRIME, the woman had moved to Alexandria from near Hoffman in Grant County and began receiving threatening voicemails from Winter afterward. She told investigators that Winter would hit her and that she said the violence had occurred before she left him on October 28, after which she blocked his phone number and social media accounts to avoid further contact.
Despite being blocked, the voicemails kept coming, the complaint states. Per the complaint, Winter threatened to kill the woman if he saw her alone in public and also threatened to slash her tires. In another lengthy voicemail, he allegedly called her multiple derogatory names.
Two Reports Led Police to Winter's Workplace
Two people reported the threats to the Alexandria Police Department on October 29, the complaint shows. After reviewing the voicemails and speaking with the woman, officers determined there was probable cause to arrest Winter, and they located him at his workplace before bringing him to the Douglas County jail, the report states.
Per the complaint, Winter admitted to leaving the woman a voicemail while drunk in which he said he would kill her if he saw her. The complaint was filed on October 30, and the case page for the charge, Threats of Violence — Threatens a Crime of Violence with the Intent to Terrorize, lists the criminal complaint as its source and was last updated November 4, according to the mncrime.com case record.
What Minnesota Law Says About the Charge
The statute Winter is charged under, Minnesota Statutes Section 609.713, states that a person convicted of threatening to commit a crime of violence with intent to terrorize may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than five years, a fine of not more than $10,000, or both, according to the Minnesota Revisor of Statutes. The available case information does not indicate how the case has proceeded since the complaint was filed.
