Minnetonka Police Arrest Man for Violating No-Contact Orders

A Champlin man has been charged with violating domestic abuse no-contact orders after Minnetonka police say they found him riding in a car with a woman who had two no-contact orders against him.

Joseph Paul Petersen, 19, is charged with violation of a domestic abuse no-contact order, a felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Petersen remains in the Hennepin County Jail on a $30,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled May 15 in Hennepin County District Court.

According to the criminal complaint, police stopped a car on Greenbrier Road on April 12 and discovered that the driver had only a Minnesota instructional permit, which required a licensed adult driver to be in the vehicle.

The officer asked the driver’s two passengers if they were licensed drivers and identified the front-seat passenger as Petersen, who said he didn’t have a valid Minnesota driver’s license, according to the complaint.

Police learned that the passenger in the back seat had two court-ordered domestic abuse no-contact orders against Petersen from 2010 and 2011.

Petersen’s criminal history includes convictions for domestic assault in 2010 and 2011 and second-degree assault in 2011.