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Cloquet police officers were called to a Cloquet apartment complex early Friday morning and ended up disarming a man who appeared to be under the influence of drugs and told police he had fired his handgun nine times.

Todd Richard LaDoucer, 53, of Roseville, Minnesota, was charged Monday in Carlton County Sixth District Court with first-degree damage to property, two counts of intentional discharge of a firearm that endangers safety, one count of felon convicted of a crime of violence-firearm violation, felon in possession of a firearm — all felonies — plus a misdemeanor count of tamper...