The Elk River police chief, Jeff Beahen, is reported as saying “’an insurance violation was a good enough reason for his officers to lock up a man’ who was later beaten to death in the Sherburne County jail.” The man killed, Carl Moyle, was previously convicted before for violating laws requiring drivers to have auto insurance.”
Beahen further said, “his officers ticket and release hundreds of drivers each year for driving without insurance, but jail only a handful with prior convictions for that offense. Drivers with convictions in the past decade for failing to have insurance can be a risk to other motorists because they often have drunken-driving or other poor-driving convictions.”
Moyle had a long history of driving without auto insurance going back to 2000 and pleaded guilty in 2002 to failure to provide auto insurance. However, Beahen did not address the reason why Moyle was in the same area that a violent criminal was being held. The alleged killer of Moyle was in jail awaiting transfer because he had just assaulted someone in a state prison.
The reason Moyle ended up in jail is justifiable but not putting him in close quarters with a violent inmate. The alleged killer has yet to be charged while investigators wait for blood test results from the state lab.
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