one police officers and law enforcement from across the metro joined forces for going cause we'll tell you how in this half hour winter has its rules we'll tell you how breaking that will cost you plus maybe would police department welcome some new faces we'll have these stories and more on this edition of your police report have believed that i was actually having a heart attack in two thousand and nine jennifer marine then thirty eight on her way home from a ski trip with their parents and husband pulled into a wyoming truck stop after blizzard conditions caused highways to close that's when she says she felt extreme pressure in her chest like elephants sitting on top of her side guys i think something's wrong with me my heart's pounding i have this pressure as luck would have it there was a hospital in town the doctor did blood tests and suggested she stay overnight since the highways were closed jennifer steed which turned out to be a blessing test revealed she'd suffered a heart attack she was flown to a bigger hospital with a cardiac unit where doctors put stones to repair a torn artery at first i was i thought why to this happen to me why do i have to have a heart attack you know thirty eight this isn't right you know that i'm told not to have kids after that and you know there seemed to be a fair about a loss and then one day i thought well why not me i mean these things happen to anyone and that was a pretty cool revelation you know just to think it's ok by folks on about a month after jennifer returned home she woke up one morning with those overwhelming chest pains and anxiety once again her torn artery from the heart attack had torn even further and another stent was administered that's when doctors discovered she had something called scad son coronary artery destruction after getting a second opinion at the mayo clinic doctors also diagnosed her with fiber muscular display shock a condition that makes the arteries weak thin and bumpy like a string of beads so it was a really overwhelming and extremely scary you know because i just felt so alone and so like a landmine i mean i felt like my body was just going to explode but jennifer was support from her family went on with life in continued working and then just days after celebrating one year since her heart attack that same torn artery tore even more and she had a six ten put in not only did it make me realize that all the days are precious but i have a responsibility to do something with life and so jennifer went to work she started facebook page for scout survivors in contacted the american heart association of all volunteering the organization's mission is to educate women on hard disease and risk factors for heart disease is a broad range terminal lot of people don't realize that a lot of things a compass heart disease diabetes high cholesterol atherosclerosis where your arteries are clogged peripheral arterial disease where you have circulation problems in your legs stroke high blood pressure all of these things are all part of heart disease chris says heart disease kills more women than the next five causes of death combined including all forms of cancer it's also largely preventable you know we remind women that too often we put ourselves last you know we're taking care of our husbands our dogs our kids our parents and we're like i'll get to myself later i'll do exercise next week all you know i got to got to do laundry i got to go grocery shopping i pick the kids up and but you won't be able to do any of those things you won't be able to take care of your family if you're not there for them if you don't if you don't live if you don't take care of yourself with the american heart association has helped save over six hundred thousand lives and there go read campaigns every is more than three hundred million dollars for research and education it's one of those things you think heart disease isn't in my family and then when you stop and think about it it is it really touches you and it touches everyone in some way there's usually somebody in your family or friends that's been affected or soon enough they will be jennifer marina's healthy and working on a memoir titled i lived and despite her difficult journey she says she wouldn't have it any other way you know i don't know if i could change the story i don't know if i would  mean that's the positive for more of her health information go to american heart association's website the target information preaches dominated the news in recent weeks after seventy million customers information was compromised people want to know what they can do to protect their identities lieutenant mike shariat is here to tell us how to protect ourselves welcome thanks now with that target breach it seems like the identity theft is becoming more and more prevalent is it because of technology or why do you think that's happening i don't know that identity theft is becoming more prevalent i think that the media attention that's given to identity theft has now had a renewed source for the public i mean when you talk about that amount of volume of breaches and the media attention that it's gotten i don't know that this is any different than what's already existed it's just the media has given it the attention technology definitely kind as put it in the forefront just because of the nature of that particular incident but more importantly i mean as we've talked about previously the three of us have been retook monsters over careers and identity theft has been around for quite some time i think it just makes it easier absolutely as well what what can people do to protect themselves you know we alluded to it last month but the joneses first and foremost i mean as a person who is the possible or could become the victim of identity theft i mean you want to protect your own data i mean you want to protect your social security number you want to protect you know your anything dealing with your identity you know your date of birth your full  name you know whether it's something as simple as just not believing that stuff available for others to have access to it or more importantly i mean if you know if something has been stolen filing a police report right away and putting  alert on your credit reports so that it can be hopefully stop before it becomes an issue and something that is now available that we still don't use that much there is an identity   and that will be up in coming in the spring with people working out of the main port mall where we have a higher concentration of these tapes at times i mean what i end up happening is we have dedicated staff that work  identity theft issues credit card fraud issues check forgery issues which all combine together to get a push for that identity theft issue you know you mentioned reporting the stuff here to the credit i'm assuming we should also that mean checking our credit you know it's highly encouraged i mean because what you don't know you can take care of i mean so if you'd check your credit report i mean we encourage people to do it at least once a year most of the three major credit reporting agency is one free report a year and it's just to your advantage to check up and see if there's been any activity that you may not even be aware of i mean it's amazing just because it is so prevalent i don't recommend what should i obviously file a police report i mean make sure that it is documented through the local law enforcement agency but then also like i said contact those credit reporting agencies to file a fraud alert letting them know that your identity may potentially be compromised get that on your credit report what ends up happening is if other identities are created using your social security number that can now be flagged through the credit reporting agencies so that hopefully it can be stopped before it happens those are the big things i mean we really do try to take a proactive approach to it i mean when people talk about  documents it's in their best interest to have that information destroyed every case is different but there's a lot of time spent for both the victim and the police department investigating these cases there's no doubt about that i mean  many of the cases that we investigate in the police environment i mean these are very time consuming cases i mean because you end up having to track down each individual use of the identity you know whether it's through a fraudulent credit card use whether it's through check forgery but more importantly it's one occurrence that happens i mean we're talking multiple occurrences and each one is individualized i don't think you can actually put a time as to how much each one takes  they are very independent of each other but it takes a lot of time and then as a victim to take a lot of time because they have to contact their bank they have to contact their credit companies and this isn't just a one time event they're consistently doing that i mean they may become a victim today and not know what and then six months down the road there may be a turn of somebody using their identity so this becomes  same thing i mean most people know when their mail arrives at their house i mean we encourage them to get it out of the mailbox as sort of that arrives as much as possible and the same thing with outgoing mail i mean it used to be that people would put their outgoing bills in their mailbox put the flag up to let the you know mailman know that they had outgoing mail we highly encourage everybody to use a secure u s postal service mailboxes just because once it's in there others cannot gain access to it at that  point you know if people put outgoing mail in their mailbox in the morning before they leave for work pretty much anybody and everybody could have access to that it's not going to happen all the time but when it happens it can create a nother problem for the person because if their checks are in there then access to their accounts are in there and everything else so those are the big things i mean with tax forms arriving in mailboxes nowadays i mean highly encourage people to get their mail out of their mailbox to the big thing you know mail theft combined with it i mean it happens frequently enough where people may not even know that they had mail stolen right you know which kind of goes back to we encourage them to consistently check their credit reports at least once a year just to see if anything has been created using their identity so those are the big things all right great information thank you my thinking is that you know from we're going to take a short break but first here's this month maplewood community minute went through and it's subzero polar vortex temperatures have been pounding on us for what feels like forever don't make it worse by doing something that could cost you along with winter come snow it's important to remember in maplewood you can't show your snow onto the street if you do it's the property owner or occupants responsibility to remove it this includes sand dirt and debris if you don't you can expect a letter from the city clerk given you three days to remove it and if you don't remove it the city council may direct the street superintendent to clean it and charge you for it instead maybe you can find some cred of way of using the extra snow just think about it i'm a cracker and i'll see you next time do it would welcome five new officers to the police department they were sworn in a special meeting including officer stumbling and his partner brooks who we profiled in december we'd like to congratulate these new officers and the new mayor norris who was also sworn in if you haven't already seen it take a look at this video from the minnesota department of transportation the made woman driving this pickup truck plunged off the sixty four bridge into a pond below surprisingly she was ok but it's a good reminder to slow down and pay attention last month we talked twenty driving safety so remember even if it's not snowing the cold temperatures we've had this winter creative black ice conditions so please use caution an enhanced dui enforcement campaign that ended on december thirty first purely twenty five hundred impaired drivers were arrested according to the minnesota department of public safety over twenty four thousand people were arrested in minnesota for drunk driving in two thousand and thirteen february's national teen dating violence awareness and prevention month one in three young people will experience some form of dating abuse carry shrike e is a clinical social worker with health east mental health and but it can be sexual it can be emotional it can even come down to stocking things things as easy as making fun of somebody maybe name calling inappropriate text messaging facebook postings those kinds of things and how common is that in the u s well in the united states like you had said earlier one out of three adolescents will experience it which comes out to one and a half million throughout nationwide that will experience teen dating violence within a year so it is a growing problem most likely who would you say is most impacted primarily it is females between the ages of like sixteen to twenty the highest rate of partner violence some of the long terms of long term effects teen dating violence can have people who experience teen dating violence have a likelihood to continue that sacre well they'll be in unhealthy relationships in their future more likely to be exposed or traumatized throughout college higher issues of chemical dependency issues depression lower self esteem inability to cope with daily life stressors in the home would families who commutes be impaired to their well i think that when our youth are struggling with problems like that and it's creating long term effects that nodal not only affects individuals but communities and families and how they function on needing more treatment services becoming financial burdens and just causing to culture in the community they have a tendency to do sometimes with chemical dependency issues that can very easily become a community issue sure well it's these kind of relationships are really hard to leave what do you suggest that teens can do well i think it's really important that there is able to identify somebody that they feel safe to talk to that not necessarily is going to tell them what to do a bit is willing to kind an open ear and somebody that's going to listen and not just tell them to get out of the relationship because in an adolescent or a teenager's world their relationship might be the biggest thing in their world at the time so take time to understand that to them it's the biggest problem in their world and to take time to listen to them and not just tell them talk at them what is the community's involvement or what's their responsibility to help stop this and i think it's going to be really important to train professionals i think that being proactive instead of reactive is important so training professionals like in schools teachers social workers community providers that maybe could come into schools and provide education to teenagers about what dating violence is is really going to be the first step and something that communities can very easily do where can people get this help well there's obviously a lot of information online on love is respect dot org is a very good place it's very kid friendly to where they can go and they can ask questions  the national domestic abuse hotline they they also receive text messages they do text messaging which is really nice for adolescents because you know how much they want to text and it makes it a little more less personal for them to reach out now for help  our heroes from across the upper midwest are coming home from wars in iraq and afghanistan only now some have a new battle to fight unemployment hello i'm rocky lynn co founder of the tribute to the troops i'm  advanced technology and demonstrate teamwork discipline and leadership under difficult circumstances this year tribute to the troops the armed forces and the upper midwest in the chapter are asking you to har are today their employers you've seen with the veterans have done for their country think what they can do for your business how you today's veteran visit positively minnesota dot com slash being exposed to subzero temperatures isn't just dangerous for humans but also our pets here's how to keep your pets safe during this frigid winter common sense really needs to rule if you're uncomfortable being outside there's a good chance your dog and we're talking about dogs primarily there's a really good chance that your dog is uncomfortable as well it's been a cold winter with subzero temperatures hitting last month and causing schools to shut down for several days with air temperatures that low exposed skin can become frostbitten in five minutes and like humans our pets can suffer from hypothermia and frostbite we definitely are seeing oftentimes cats that come in that have been strays for a period of time where they've lost their tips they've lost their talks to frostbite it's like someone was in a fingertip to frostbite so it definitely can happen you know that's that's a risk for an animal that's left outside too long just like it would be for a person how long your pet can stay outdoors depends on their activity level and their coats larger dogs built for the cold can withstand longer periods outside and for arctic breeds or water dogs the colder the better if your dog is like mine and loves coming to the dog park no matter how low the temperature drops you may have discovered he also loves to pick up the needs something another dog had left behind and there's definitely the potential for him to contract intestinal parasites by doing that you know why did dogs do that it's an age old problem i think there's a combination of the unfortunate just like the flavor they like the taste i always thought nature had taken care of that but apparently  children make sure to clean up all spills and store the product out of reach even a small amount can cause kidney failure so don't sidewalks community posts a wash and dry them after they've been outside and finally pets rely on humans to care for them so when their own owners feel it's our responsibility to help them one of those things i think people worry about what's going to do to change your relations with your neighbors and things like that and so everybody has to make individual judgments but there certainly are such circumstances where  reporting was warranted and the best interests of the animal talk to your veterinarian are check out these websites for more information it comes from quickly each year for many officers the anticipation is worse than the reality but they take the plunge for a worthy cause take a look we're going to have almost two thousand people jumping into the freezing cold waters so we're preparing today to get everything ready what's kind of funny about it is it takes us about three days to set up for a plunge like this and it takes us about four hours to tear it down you know so i it's kind of interesting in that respect but we do it because we do it for the right reasons for the athletes especial it's cold it's cold this is the worst part is walking to the bus in the water's fine then you're standing on the platform and it's like all you can't back out now but yeah jumping in the water come on and i was definitely this year i was definitely doing one of  and i'm sure everyone that participates in the polar plunge gets asked the question what was it like why can someone up in one word cold well you did jump in icy water i did well think of yourself standing out in maybe single digit temperatures in your suit in a t shirt for about ten minutes just when you think you're really freezing then you jump in thirty two degree water then you get out your shirt sticks to you freezes and then you run sixty yards to warm up it's quite pleasurable while her but i'm glad it was a much worse because absolutely before we go we like to remind you to check out our facebook page like your police report on facebook and get updates and make suggestions and talk to us thanks for joining us this month and we'll see you next time for another edition of your police report