MN-SEN: Tarantula-tossing candidate (I) running for U.S. Senate sentenced to workhouse over 2024 incident

[RandySF]

An independent candidate for the U.S. Senate has been sentenced to three months in the Hennepin County workhouse over a tarantula-tossing incident a couple of years ago.

Marisa Simonetti, 32, of Edina, was convicted on one count of gross misdemeanor harassment and one count of misdemeanor domestic assault.

Simonetti’s sentence allows her to have work release. She will have to pay $1,078 in fines.

She was placed on probation for two years, and a one-year sentence in the workhouse was stayed.

The charges stem from an incident involving Simonetti and a woman renting out her basement.





https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/07/02/tarantulatossing-candidate-running-for-us-senate-sentenced-to-workhouse-over-2024-incident

[madinmaryland]

1. Minnesota man strikes. A cousin of Florida man.

[Bayard]

2. Tanantula tossing Minnesota woman,

That's different.