Shakopee Man Sentenced for Violating Domestic Abuse No Contact Order

A Shakopee man will spend 90 days in jail for violating a domestic abuse no-contact order by repeatedly contacting and threatening a Burnsville woman.

Selvin Jesus Hernandez, 25, pleaded guilty in February to one count of felony violating a domestic abuse no-contact order within 10 years of the first two or more convictions.

In late March, Hernandez was sentenced to 90 days in Dakota County Jail and given credit for 60 days served. He will also be under supervised probation for five years, must undergo domestic abuse counseling and live within the rules of his current no-contact orders.

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’s 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 history includes convictions for domestic abuse and harassment in 2010.