Shakopee Man Accused of Violating Protection Order

A Shakopee man has been charged with violating a domestic abuse no-contact order against a Burnsville woman.

Selvin Jesus Hernandez, 24, was arrested Jan. 14 on a new charge of violating a no-contact order and on several outstanding warrants. 

Hernandez remains in Dakota County Jail on a $100,000 bond on the latest Dakota County charge. He is facing separate harassment charges in Dakota County, a domestic abuse charge in Scott County and a charge of driving without a valid driver’s license in Carver County.

Hernandez also is on a so-called ICE (immigration and customs enforcement) hold and is facing possible deportation.

An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled Feb. 7 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.

According to the criminal complaint, Burnsville police were called to a home on West 157th Street just before 9 p.m. Jan. 14 after someone reported that Hernandez had violated a no-contact order. 

The victim told police that Hernandez had sent her 59 text messages within a half-hour that evening and had called her twice within 24 hours, in violation of a no-contact order issued in October 2010 and valid until December 2016.

The victim told officers that the text messages called her derogatory names, and in some, Hernandez told her that he was outside and asked her to come out and see him. She said the messages came from Hernandez’ cell phone number and she believed he had sent them because he called her by a nickname that she said no one else would know.

Police called the number that evening and left a message for Hernandez to call police. Two days later, the victim reported to police that she had received several more text messages from Hernandez after her initial report.

One of the messages said, “I am not going to dirty my hands, my people will do it for me,” according to the complaint. Another said, “If the police get me, you will not find a corner to hide in,” the complaint says.

Police tracked down Hernandez at a Shakopee apartment complex in the 1200 block of Shakopee Avenue. When they knocked on the apartment door, Hernandez answered, but denied being the person whom police were seeking, according to the complaint.

Officers determined his identity by some distinctive tattoos and arrested him.

Hernandez’s criminal record includes convictions for domestic abuse and harassment in 2010.