Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
Other State Agency agency. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- None listed
- Counties
- None named in the FBI file
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2021.
- Months sent in 2025
- 6 of 12
- FBI agency code
- MNBCA0000
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
Police and the jail must cite and release most people arrested for misdemeanors. A person still held may post bail under the district court's bail process or schedule, or sees a district judge, who sets release conditions. A 2018 Judicial Council policy says it ended bail schedules statewide, but the rule still mentions them, so whether jails release on a money schedule is unclear.
Minn. R. Crim. P. 6.01Minn. Stat. 629.72House Research, Bail and Pretrial Release in Minnesota (Aug. 2024)Minnesota Pretrial Assessment Tool Validation Study (May 2023)- Time to see a judge
A person arrested and not released must see a judge within 36 hours, not counting the day of arrest, Sundays, and legal holidays. After a warrantless arrest, a judge must also find probable cause within 48 hours, counting every day.
Minn. R. Crim. P. 4.01, 4.03
Crime and arrests
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