Dunn County charges dismissed against man who left 4 corpses in Town of Sheridan
PROTECTED CONTENT
If you’re a current subscriber, log in below. If you would like to subscribe, please click the subscribe tab above.
Username and Password Help
Please enter your email and we will send you a password reset link.
By LeAnn R. Ralph
MENOMONIE — Dunn County charges of hiding a corpse have been dismissed concerning the 39-year-old man who murdered four people in Minnesota and left their bodies in an SUV in a Town of Sheridan corn field.
Antoine D. Suggs, who was convicted by a Ramsey County, Minnesota, jury on four counts of second degree murder in March of this year and sentenced to more than 100 years in prison in May, was charged in Dunn County with four felony counts of hiding a corpse, with the modifiers of being a repeat offender and as a party to a crime.
Judge James Peterson dismissed the four counts in Dunn County Circuit Court on August 2.
On-line court records note that Suggs had not yet made an initial appearance in Dunn County Circuit Court.
Judge Peterson had issued a bench warrant for Suggs on September 15, 2021, and set bail at $2 million.
The bodies of the four victims were found in an SUV on Sunday, September 12, 2021, at about 2:38 p.m. in a corn field on County Road VVV in the Town of Sheridan.
The four victims that Suggs was convicted of murdering were Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley (age 30) (found in the front passenger seat of the SUV); Jasmine Christine Sturm (age 31) (rear passenger side); Loyace Foreman III (age 35) (center rear seat); Matthew Isiah Pettus (age 26) (rear driver’s side seat).
The vehicle was registered to Luxury Auto Sales LLC, and when officers contacted the 55 year old woman listed as the registered owner of the vehicle, the woman said the co-owner of Luxury Auto Sales, a 35-year-old woman, was in possession of the vehicle and had planned to drive it to Georgia.
The 35-year-old woman told law enforcement officers she had given the vehicle to Antoine D. Suggs, according to the Dunn County criminal complaint.
St. Paul
According to the statement of probable cause from Ramsey County, six shell casings were recovered from the interior of the Mercedes, and investigators found Suggs’ Arizona driver’s license covered in blood.
Investigators also found a receipt for the White Squirrel in St. Paul showing a purchase had been made by one of the victims at 1:38 a.m. on September 12.
Later on, witnesses would say they had seen Suggs at Shamrocks, located on Seventh Street West in St Paul with three of the victims, and then at the White Squirrel, located on Seventh Street West in St. Paul, with two of the victims.
Witnesses recall seeing the victims getting into the Mercedes.
Phone data shows that one of the victims created a contact for Suggs at 3:08 a.m. and that Suggs’ phone and the Mercedes remained parked until around 3:30 a.m.
Surveillance video from Seventh Street and Walnut Street in St. Paul showed the Mercedes at 3:48 a.m., and it appears one of the victims is already slumped over in the front passenger seat.
“Investigators believe that Suggs killed the four victims in the area of Seventh Street in St. Paul, Ramsey County, between 3:30 a.m. and 3:48 a.m. on September 12, 2021,” according to the statement of probable cause.
According to a news release issued by the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department at about 4 p.m. Friday, September 17, 2021, Antoine D. Suggs had been taken into custody in Maricopa County, Arizona.
According to a news release issued by the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department on the afternoon of Thursday, September 16, 2021, Suggs’ father, Darren L. Osborne, had been arrested on a Dunn County warrant by the St. Paul Police Department and was being held in the Ramsey County Jail.
Osborne
Osborne, age 57, has pleaded guilty in Ramsey County to aiding an offender (accomplice after the fact), and sentenced to 58 months (4.8 years) in prison with credit for 458 days served.
Osborne followed Suggs to the corn field in the Town of Sheridan and then gave Suggs a ride back to Minnesota.
Osborne claimed he did not know there were dead bodies in the SUV, even though surveillance cameras videotaped him at the Bridge Stop in Wheeler standing next to the open passenger side window, where one of the victims was located, slumped over in her seat.
Osborne also is charged in Dunn County with four felony counts of hiding a corpse, with the modifiers of being a repeat offender and as a party to a crime.
At a status conference December 28, 2022, in Dunn County Circuit Court, Osborne appeared by video while being in custody at St. Cloud Correctional in Minnesota, according to online court records.
Judge Peterson said the arrest warrant would remain so that Osborne could be extradited.
Osborne told the judge he had a plea agreement in Ramsey County and thought the Dunn County charges were supposed to be dropped.
Dunn County District Attorney Andrea Nodolf said there was no plea agreement with the Wisconsin charges and that the charges would remain.
Judge Peterson said he was not aware of that kind of agreement and that Ramsey County cannot speak for Wisconsin.
The warrant will remain, but no future hearing would be set as of December 28, and Osborne will be extradited at a later date, Judge Peterson said.
As of September 8, no court hearing date for Osborne has been listed in the on-line court records.
