FARGO (KFGO) – A Fargo man has been charged with robbery of mail, theft of mail, theft of a postal service mail key, and having a gun in furtherance of a violent crime in federal court. 21-year-old Deshaun Holmes was arrested last Friday for robbing a mail carrier at gunpoint last Monday in Frontier south of Fargo. Court documents say…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo man is sentenced in Cass County District Court for sexually abusing a minor. The judge gave 49-year-old Marc Leslie 20 years in prison for gross sexual imposition with a victim under 15 and 5 years for solicitation of a minor victim under 15. The terms will be served concurrently and he’ll be eligible for…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A woman wants to honor Fargo Police Officer Zach Robinson and she has started a GoFundMe to do it. Rebecca Folden calls Robinson a hero and says he saved Fargo from a mass shooting event. He is the officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Mohamad Barakat after he ambushed officers attending to a crash on Friday,…
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Police release pictures of a man whose body was found in the Sheyenne River earlier this week. The man’s body was recovered around noon Monday, and authorities are trying to identify who he was. He’s described as white, about 30 to 40-years-old, with dark short hair and a beard. He was between 5’8″ and 5’10”…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Sitting in a parked car with an arsenal of weapons and ammunition, the man who fired on police officers in Fargo last Friday chose to use the one gun in his vehicle that was modified with a binary trigger. The device allowed the gun to fire so rapidly that it sounded like an automatic weapon. The…
PEQUOT LAKES, Minn. (AP) – The Fargo police officer who was responding to a routine traffic crash when he was ambushed and fatally shot by a heavily armed man was remembered Saturday as a dedicated officer and an exceptional young man taken too soon. Jake Wallin, 23, was killed July 14 when a man armed with 1,800 rounds of ammunition,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – In his most detailed update yet, North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley released more details into the investigation of last week’s shooting that killed FPD officer Jake Wallin and the 37-year-old suspect, Mohamed Barakat. Wrigley says he believes the violence we saw last Friday could have been part of a bigger attack. Although Barakat had little…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo man is facing federal charges for robbing a mail carrier at gunpoint late Monday night. Cass County officials say they’ve been working to identify, locate and arrest 21-year-old Deshaun Holmes for the last week. The postal inspection service was offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction….
Mohamad BarakatFARGO, N.D. (AP) — The man who shot three Fargo police officers and a civilian, killing one of the officers before an officer killed him, searched the internet for terms including “explosive ammo” and “kill fast,” as well as for what crowded area events might be happening, authorities said Friday. Mohamad Barakat also used a “binary trigger” that allowed…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) Are crowded events safe to attend? Some have worries after new details were given about last week’s fatal south Fargo ambush on officers. Cass County Sheriff Jesse Jahner says law enforcement around the F-M metro are always working together, especially for big events in the region. “There’s actually resources in place that most people don’t know…
