They arrested Nikolay Soltys after the open door of a refrigerator in the backyard blocked his effort to flee.
The couple's sons, David, 9, and Jonathan, 6, play in the backyard, circle the block with their "scooter friends" and set up lemonade stands.
Though the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board freezes over 30 rinks for public use, it is not unusual to find one private backyard rink per block in residential St . Paul
They speculate that the role of zoning may be important, as communities dominated by homeowners resort to "not in my backyard" efforts that block new businesses that could create jobs.
An anonymous tip led the police in Federal Way, just north of Tacoma, to the 400-pound sculpture beneath a pile of debris in a backyard about a block from where it was taken on Monday.
Officer Infantes was playing cards and talking with friends in a backyard up the block from where he grew up, attending a party held by Dorothy Ippolitto, 58, whose son is a childhood friend of the officer.
A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed in a backyard about four blocks from President Obama's Chicago home, the police said Tuesday.
Ms. Facciolo was keeping her pony, Dino, who was badly burned in the fire, in her backyard, a few blocks from the stable.
But scientists at the University of Colorado said Wednesday that a major cache of Stone Age tools, believed to be 13,000 years old, had been found in a suburban backyard just six blocks from the campus in Boulder.
At Lenny's Clam Bar on Cross Bay Boulevard, a woman stuffing menus said the scent wafting across her backyard pool three blocks away could be so eye-watering at times, her family routinely took road trips to a cousin's pool on Long Island.
