Suspect in shooting caught

A Cloquet man who was suspected of shooting a man in the leg was arrested last week.

Nicholas Joseph Ammesmaki, 26, was taken into custody July 1 on an unrelated charge and is being held at the Northwest Regional Corrections Center in Crookston, Minnesota, according to a press release from the Cloquet Police Department.

An arrest warrant for Ammesmaki was issued in Carlton County for possible charges of first-degree assault and possession of a firearm, stemming from two incidents in May.

That’s when CPD officers responded to Scotty Drive in Cloquet for a report of several shots fired at the residence and no injuries just after midnight May 17. At approximately 12:30 a.m., officers received a report of a second shooting, later determined to have occurred on the 900 block of Ozhigaw Road in Cloquet. The victim, a 27-year-old male from Cloquet, had a gunshot wound to the leg and was transferred to a hospital in Duluth. His injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.