Stuart Hanmer (Stearns Co.Jail)
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (WJON KFGO) – A Moorhead man has been arrested for allegedly poisoning a St. Cloud man in June of this year.
The St. Cloud Police Department arrested 35-year-old Stuart Hanmer of Moorhead for homicide in connection with the death of 33-year-old Cody Ernst of St. Cloud.
Police say on June 20, they were notified that Ernst had been admitted to the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis in critical condition with an extremely high level of the heavy metal Thallium in his system. Ernst died from complications two days later.
St. Cloud Police, with assistance from several other agencies, investigated the poisoning and, through the course of the investigation, determined that Hanmer intentionally poisoned Ernst. Thallium is a poisonous, soft, bluish-white metal and is recovered as a by-product from lead and zinc smelting.
Hanmer was Ernst’s roommate at the time of the poisoning. Hanmer is currently being held in the Stearns County Jail pending formal charges.
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