Alexandria Police Department

 

FACT SHEET

 

NOTIFICATION OF RELEASE IN MINNESOTA

 
 

RISK LEVEL THREE        In addition to level two notification (schools and daycares as well as establishments and

organizations that primarily serve individuals likely to be victimized  by the offender), law enforcement may notify other members of the community whom the offender is likely to encounter.

 
 

The Alexandria Police Department is available to provide you with useful information on personal safety.  The Alexandria Police Department may be reached at (320) 763-6631.  To report criminal activity by this offender or any other individual, please call 911.

 

GALE JOSEPH LANDEEN       DOB: 03/31/1954   

OID: 223528 

Race: White

Hispanic: No

Height: 6’ 3”

Eyes: Blue

Weight: 390

Hair: Gray

Complexion: Fair

Build: Large

            11/07/2011

           11/07/2011

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

  

Registration statute(s):  Sex Offense, Non-MN Statutes                          

Investigating agency: Baraboo, WI Law Enforcement Agency

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Release date: 07/24/2007

 

Offender has a history of sexual contact with minor female victims (age 15-17).  Contact has included fondling.  Offender gained compliance/access by offering victims tobacco and alcohol.  Offender was known to victims.

 

Address: Vicinity of 6th Avenue West and Broadway Street, Alexandria, MN 56308

 

Date of address change: 07/15/2011

 

 


 

The Alexandria Police Department is releasing this information pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 244.052.  This statute authorizes law enforcement agencies to inform the public of a sexual or predatory offender’s release from prison or a secure treatment facility when the Alexandria Police Department believes that the release of information will enhance public safety and protection.

 

The individual who appears on this notification has been convicted of Criminal Sexual Conduct or another offense that requires registration with law enforcement pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 243.166 or 243.167.

 

This offender is not wanted by the police at this time and has served the sentence imposed on him/her by the court.  This notification is not intended to increase fear in the community.  Law enforcement believes that an informed public is a safer public.

 

The Alexandria Police Department and the Minnesota Department of Corrections may NOT direct where the offender does or does not reside, nor can these agencies direct where he/she works or goes to school.  The risk level of this offender has been determined based largely on his/her potential to re-offend based on his/her previous criminal behavior.

 

Convicted sexual and predatory offenders have always been released to live in our communities.  It was not until the passage of the Registration Act that law enforcement had an ability track the movement of these offenders after their initial release.  With the passage of the Community Notification Act law enforcement may now share information about many of these offenders with the public.  Abuse of this information to threaten, harass or intimidate a registered offender is unacceptable and such acts could be charged as a crime.  Such abuses could potentially end the ability of law enforcement to provide these notifications.  If community notification ends the only person who wins is the offender.  Many of these offenders derive their power from the opportunity that secrecy provides.