Michael Longbehn:  

My schools include Johnson High School. I later attended Century College, Northwestern Institute, and lucky enough to have attended training with the F.B.I. at Quantico Virginia. After graduatuing I must admit, I was ill prepared for post high school life. I immediately went to work at a local car dealership, as I was always handy with cars. I stayed in that vocation way too long, it payed the bills but left me unfulfilled. In 1975 I married "the girl next door". I married Sheila Sager after knowing her most of my life and going through all of the boy/girl phases. We bought a modest home on Hawthorne Ave. In 1978 I joined the St Paul Police reserves after seeing an ad in the Pioneer Press to join and make your neighborhood a safer place and included free CPR training. This (cpr) was of key importance for me as my wife and I were expecting our first child and I wanted to know how to properly perform cpr. I am the oldest of nine children, 4 boys, 5 girls. As very young children we bounced around from rental homes, and apartments. Ultimately we settled into McDonough Housing, a fact I was alway ashamed to admit back then. I remember when asked where I lived, I always said "down by 35E and Wheelock Pkwy". Ironically, I now am very proud of it. After a few years of doing the police reserve thing, I knew I had found my calling. I went back to school. Balancing working days, college classes at night and two young children, it was labor intensive, but oh so worth it. I graduated from college in June 1986, then attended a mandatory police skills course in the fall of 1986. In 1987 I accepted a job offer and was sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff with Anoka County, Mn. I worked there for 24+ years before accepting an early retirement incentive o...Expand for more