On Aug. 8, 2024, Silver Bay Police Officer Marcus Small was dispatched to an assault call on Arthur Circle. Upon arrival, he observed a 16-year-old male, with at least one missing tooth, who was bleeding from a wound on his head. The minor told Officer Small that he had been assaulted by a man with a chain, and that he did not know the identity of the man.
According to the victim, it started when he sent a video message to an adult friend in Duluth, congratulating her on getting a new apartment. During the phone conversation, an unknown man took the phone from his female friend and accused him of talking to underage girls.
The victim, who had dated the woman’s younger sister in the past, informed the man that he was only 16 himself, and that he didn’t talk to girls younger than 14.
The man and the 16-year-old began arguing. The argument escalated, and they eventually agreed to meet up in Silver Bay, to fight.
The man and his girlfriend then drove from Duluth to Silver Bay, where they met the teenager and several of his friends near the skate park. When they arrived, the man exited the vehicle with a chain in his hand. Following behind him, his girlfriend said, “Babe, not the chain. Babe, not the chain.”
The man allegedly struck the victim multiple times in the head and wrapped the chain around his neck during the assault. The man also allegedly hit one of the victim’s friends with the chain.
Police learned the man’s identity a month later. On Sept. 9, Silver Bay Police Chief Cole Ernest received a call from a third person who had been in the car, reporting that the identity of the attacker from the August assault was 28-year-old Corey Krube.
On Sept. 10, Chief Ernest and Officer Michaiah Schubert executed a search warrant on Corey Krube’s Duluth residence. The items of evidence collected included a chain which a neighbor claimed Krube had given her.
When the Duluth Police Department located and arrested Krube, he denied wrongdoing and blamed the Silver Bay assault on an individual named Riley.
Krube is currently lodged in Two Harbors at the Lake County Jail. He was charged with two felonies: (1) Second Degree Assault with Substantial Bodily Harm and (2) Second Degree Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
Krube is also facing felony charges for a case in Two Harbors for Threats of Violence and another case in Superior, Wisconsin, for 1st Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety.
Krube is also facing a misdemeanor Domestic Assault charge in Two Harbors, two misdemeanor charges for Endangering Safety and Disorderly Conduct in Superior, and three additional misdemeanor charges in Duluth, for Driving While Intoxicated.
Within the past five months, Krube has accumulated six charges in four local municipalities for driving without a valid license, and he has lost custody of his children during the past year.
On Oct. 2, 2024, from jail, Krube remotely attended a hearing in Lake County District Court. Sobbing, Krube told Judge Steven Hanke that he wanted to turn his life around and begged for the judge to release him to a drug-treatment program. Hanke declined to do so.
When Krube appeared before Hanke again, on Oct. 14, the judge granted the pre-trial release. As Krube waits for his various cases to be resolved, he will receive drug treatment from the Bethel facility in Duluth.
Cover photo: Corey Krube. Source: Lake County Jail roster
