David GeorgeWEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A West Fargo elementary school principal has resigned after being arrested Monday night on five counts related to possession of certain prohibited materials. Thirty-nine-year-old David Preston George was appointed principal of Independence Elementary School in April. “District administration was informed that Independence Elementary School Principal David George was arrested. While we awaited further information…
Spencer MoenFARGO (KFGO/KVRR) – A West Fargo man has been charged with murder in the death of his wife. 31-year-old Spencer Moen was arrested last Thursday morning at the couple’s home in the 1100 block of Eaglewood Ave. W. Charging documents indicate that Moen told responding officers that his wife, Sonja, decided to sleep in the bathtub and was unresponsive…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Minneapolis man is sentenced to 17 years in prison with 5 supervised release for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances and Money Laundering Conspiracy inside Grand Forks County Jail. Fifty-seven-year-old Timothy Eason had been arrested on state drug charges and was being held in Grand Forks. From October 2021 to February 2022, Eason arranged shipments of…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Cavalier man is sentenced to 29 years in prison for possession of child pornography and failure to register as a sex offender. Thirty-five-year-old Cody O’Hara was discovered living at his girlfriend’s home in Moorhead after he wasn’t found at his registered address in Fargo. When authorties examined his cellphone, they found nearly 500 images and…
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (KVRR/KFGO) — An Otsego, Minnesota woman who pleaded guilty last year to financial fraud and identity theft gets seven years in federal prison. Prosecutors say 40-year-old Maegen Fortin engaged in fraudulent conduct at credit unions and businesses in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota in 2020 and 2021. She used the names,…
STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting of a person by a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper at a convenience store Wednesday in Sturgis, where a big annual motorcycle rally is underway. Sturgis Police Chief Geody VanDewater issued a brief statement confirming that one person was shot and wounded by a trooper, and said more information would be…
GoFundMeFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A man who was violently attacked by two men he was giving a ride to from a downtown Fargo bar is now out of the hospital. Tyler Spaeth was beaten, stabbed in the head and had his vehicle, phone and wallet stolen by the suspects on the morning of August 1. Court records say he was…
FARGO (KFGO) – A man who was arrested for being in the U.S. illegally at Sky Dancer Casino earlier this year has been sentenced to just under two years in federal prison. Fidel Torres pleaded guilty to the sole charge of reentry into the U.S. by a removed alien subsequent a felony conviction in a Fargo courtroom Wednesday afternoon. The…
FARGO — They were once on the wrong side of the law. Now, they’re raising money to protect some of the metro’s lawmen — the ones who sacrificed themselves to save their city from an apparent mass shooting attack on July 14th. The F5 Project is a Fargo-based nonprofit that helps get jobs,. homes, and healthy transitions into regular life…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A formerly well-connected GOP donor convicted of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in exchange for sex was sentenced Wednesday to 21 years in prison on sex trafficking charges. Anton “Tony” Lazzaro was found guilty in March by a federal jury of seven counts involving “commercial sex acts” with five girls ages 15 and 16 in 2020, when…
