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What sets Sleepy Eye’s FFA chapter apart isn’t just the numbers – it counts over 200 kids – but how many actively participate in the many facets of the program, advisor Mary Hoffmann said.“We have tried to create this sense of family in FFA so everybody feels like they belong and they want to contribute,” she said.

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Feds: $21M theft ring with national reach had ties to Sleepy Eye

Federal prosecutors describe a Sleepy Eye native as playing a major role in an alleged $21 million catalytic converter theft ring and say a local property of his was used in the scheme, according to their indictment.John Charles Kotten, 41, is accused of amassing the auto parts from street-level thieves – knowing they were stolen – and then personally transporting loads of them from Minnesota in rented U-Hauls to high-volume buyers in other states, often on the East Coast, for payments of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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