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VOLU
ME III
Plaintiff,
Defendant.
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RICHARD J. HAKANSON, having been first duly sworn, was examined and testified on
his oath as follows:
Q. Are you a licensed and certified peace officer in the state of Minnesota? A. Yes, I
am.
Q. Since when?
Q. How long have you been employed with the Lakeville Police Department?
A. My whole career.
A. As of today, I'm going back to patrol, but the last two years, I was an investigative
detective.
A. Correct.
States Marine Corps, did four years active duty. I returned back to Minnesota, where I
obtained a two-year degree, associate's degree in law enforcement,
A. Yes, I was.
Q. And on that date, did you respond to a residence in the city of Lakeville regarding a
report of two missing girls?
A. Yes, I did.
A. Tammy Love.
Q. And what was the address of the residence that you were dispatched to?
A. Correct.
A. Correct.
Q. And did you speak to anyone when you reached the residence?
A. She told me that earlier that day, she had received a court order, a copy of a court
order for temporary guardianship of her two nieces, Samantha and Gianna. Later in the
day,
around 5:30 I think it was, she said that the custody exchange occurred. Both girls were
upset about the living arrangements. They then returned to the Ireland Place
address together, and a short while later, the girls left the house. Tammy was upset
and believed that the girls' biological mother, Sandra Rucki, had something to do with it.
Q. And did Tammy Love provide you any information as to where Sandra Grazzini-
Rucki or the girls might be?
A. Took the basic information for a runaway report, possible destination information, that
kind of thing, clothing
description. Completed those, and then I went to my car and attempted to make
contact with Sandra via her cell phone, so I made a phone call. However, her phone
was turned off and I
Q. And who provided you with Ms. -- when you say "Sandra," it was Ms. Grazzini-
Rucki?
A. You know, I don't recall, again, if that was provided to me by Tammy or if I had it
on our in-house records check.
A. Yes, her last known believed-to-be residence was in Elko. 6 Q. And did you take
any actions in regards to checking out that
residence?
were there.
A. They did.
A. They did, and they said they had no contact at the residence.
Q. Did you determine or were you able to determine what type of vehicle Ms. Grazzini-
Rucki was driving as of April 19th, 2013?
A. I did, and that would be a white Cadillac Escalade. Q. And how did you determine
that information?A. Again, I -- it may have been provided to me by Tammy, or more
likely, it was
A. It's a tool law enforcement uses to disseminate a message to the mobile computers
in police squad cars to try to help locate either an individual or a vehicle. It's a tool
where
Q. And we've all heard of AMBER Alerts. Are you familiar with AMBER Alerts?
A. Yes, I am.
their own free will or that there was any type of foul play involved.
Q. When you issued the Attempt to Locate, did you have any success in
locating Ms. Grazzini-Rucki?
Q. Did you attempt to -- so all of that occurred right after the girls went missing on April
19th?
A. That's correct.
4. Q. Did you attempt to contact Ms. Grazzini-Rucki the next day, on April 20th,
2013?
. Well, on the 19th before my -- before my shift would end, we would have the girls
entered into the National Crime
Information Center, NCIC, that they were runaways, so any contact with the girls after
that time would show that they
were runaways, and any agency that had contact with them would take them into
custody.
Q. And did you -- did any agencies have contact with the girls?
A. No.
Q. So --
A. So the next night when I returned on the 20th for my shift and the girls were still
runaways -- no one had found them --
I made another effort to contact Sandra, their mother. And 18 this time, her phone was
turned on and I was able to leave a voicemail message.
A. Yes, I asked Scott County to make a second effort to go back to the -- her last
known address in Elko again.
A. They did. This time they made contact with Mr. Rhedin. The deputy asked if he
knew the whereabouts of Sandra or the kids. He told her that -- he claimed he hadn't
seen the
4girls in six months, and he said he hadn't seen Sandra and that she might be flying
somewhere, being that she's a flight attendant, and had no idea where they were.
Q. So thereafter, was the case then assigned to a detective in the Lakeville Police
Department?
THE DEFENDANT: How could I question him? I don't have his preliminary
statement. (Just a summary written by Detective Dronen)
THE COURT: Was Officer Hakanson's report provided to Ms. Evavold in the discovery
the State provided?
MS. KEENA: Yes, Your Honor - THE COURT: All right, thank you.