Crime & Safety

Man Charged with Threatening Limo Driver After Leaving Eagan Restaurant

Police say Daniel Vincent Schally threatened to shoot the driver if the fare from Eagan to Burnsville was more than $20.

A Burnsville man has been charged with stalking after police say he told a limousine driver this week that he’d have to shoot her if the fare to drive him home from an Eagan restaurant was more than $20.

Daniel Vincent Schally, 43, is charged with stalking with intent to injure, a gross misdemeanor which carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $3,000 fine. 

Schally was arrested Sunday evening and remained in the Dakota County Jail Tuesday.

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According to the criminal complaint, Burnsville police were called just after 6 p.m. Sunday to a restaurant near Schally’s home and interviewed the female limousine driver about the incident.

The victim was “very upset and crying” during the interview, and an officer noted that she was so upset she could hardly speak. She told police that she feared for her life during the incident and wasn’t sure if she could continue driving a limousine.

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She told police that she was called to La Fonda restaurant on Sibley Memorial Highway to pick up a passenger. She said the restaurant manager told her that he wanted Schally to leave the restaurant and that he needed a ride home.

En route to Schally’s home, Schally told the driver that he doesn’t drive because “people make him mad and he has to shoot them,” according to the complaint. He told her that he has a permit to carry a weapon and that he had guns at his home.

Schally asked the driver to take him to McDonald’s, then changed his mind and asked him to take her to Subway on Cliff Road. When they arrived, Schally asked her to drive across the street to the Shell station so he could buy cigarettes.

When they found the gas station closed, Schally told the driver that he would put the station “on his list to shoot,” according to the complaint.

The driver told police she was becoming “very scared” of Schally as they drove around Burnsville. She said she offered to take him to Walgreens for cigarettes, at which point he told her that the fare “better not be more than $20,” and if it was, he’d have to shoot her.

Schally bought cigarettes at Walgreens, then got back into the limousine with another man. The victim drove the two to Schally’s home, where Schally gave her $25 and the other man gave her a dollar.

Police went to Schally’s home and knocked on the door. A man matching the description given by the limousine driver answered the door; when an officer asked him to step outside, he refused and tried to close the door, the complaint says.

Officers “escorted” Schally outside, where he admitted riding in the limousine, but told police that “nothing out of the ordinary” happened. He denied threatening the driver. Police noted that during the conversation, Schally appeared “very intoxicated.”

Schally’s criminal history includes convictions for DWI, providing a false name to police and driving with a revoked driver’s license.


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