Northfield Man Charged with Rampaging Through Apartment

A Northfield man with a blood-alcohol content twice the legal limit for driving has been charged with rampaging through an apartment on Tuesday, damaging property and challenging police to shoot him when they arrived to investigate.

Robert Julian Perez-Braly, 21, is charged with first-degree damage to property, a felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Perez-Braly is also charged with domestic assault and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors with a penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint filed in Rice County District Court:

Police were called to an apartment in the 200 block of Greenvale Avenue just before 9 p.m. Tuesday on a report of a man who was “acting out of control.” Police were told that the man had left the area, but had returned.

When police arrived, they spoke to the victim, who described Perez-Braly as “completely out of control.” Officers heard a loud crash and saw an object fall out of a second-floor window, and another loud crash followed a few seconds later.

Perez-Braly then came out of the apartment building and approached an officer in an “aggressive manner,” according to the complaint, repeatedly yelling, “[Expletive] you. Shoot me.”

An officer told Perez-Braly to get down on the ground; he refused and continued advancing toward the officers. One of the officers used a stun gun to subdue him, and he was arrested and handcuffed.

Perez-Braly told police that he was drunk and that he had been accused of cheating on his girlfriend, according to the complaint. He told officers that he “just wanted to go to jail,” the complaint says.

Perez-Braly agreed to a preliminary blood test, and his blood-alcohol content was .169 percent, more than twice the legal limit of .08 percent.

The victim told police later that Perez-Braly had been drinking and was extremely intoxicated when he returned home. He began to act belligerent, ripping the blinds from a window in her son’s room and yelling at the victim, she said.

The woman said she had never seen Perez-Braly so out of control, and she asked him not to hit her. At that point, Perez-Braly grabbed a knife and told her that she’d “better tell the cops they are going to have to shoot me,” she said.

The victim went outside the wait for the police, and Perez-Braly apparently began destroying property inside the apartment, holding two knives and stabbing the walls and the window, the victim said.

Police saw “significant” property damage inside the apartment, with personal property thrown around, damage to the apartment’s walls, broken blinds and closet doors damaged beyond repair.

In 2009, Perez-Braly was convicted of obstructing the legal process; charges of assaulting a peace officer, fleeing, liquor consumption by a person under 21 and disorderly conduct were dropped in that case.

In 2010, Perez-Braly was convicted of receiving a stolen firearm and served 60 days in a Hennepin County workhouse and was placed on two years of probation.

In April 2012, he was convicted of DWI and hit and run. He served 19 days in jail and was put on one year of probation.

Perez-Braly remains in the Rice County Jail. His next court appearance is July 27.