Overview
- Benton County Judge Robert Raupp ordered a 918-month term, giving Karl Thomas Holmberg, 66, credit for roughly two years already served.
- A jury in August convicted Holmberg on seven counts of first-degree attempted murder of a peace officer, as well as first-degree assault and drug and firearm offenses.
- Court records say he fired through a closed bedroom door as Sherburne County Drug Task Force members executed a search warrant at his Glendorado Township home on Oct. 12, 2023.
- Five officers were injured, with gunshot wounds to an arm, chest and hip, and a hand, while two others were struck in their ballistic vests and later discharged from St. Cloud Hospital.
- A search later found methamphetamine and multiple guns, and Sheriff Joel Brott praised the sentence as preventing further violence and noted the fortunate outcomes for the wounded officers.