FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Horace, North Dakota man is jailed on a number of charges after leading Cass County deputies on an early morning pursuit. They attempted to stop 29-year-old Nikolus Schnellbach near Horace around 2:40 a.m. for speeding but he fled. The chase crossed into Clay County then back into Cass County. Schnellbach eventually stopped and surrendered in…
PEKIN, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A McVille, North Dakota woman was seriously injured in a rollover crash in northeastern North Dakota Friday evening. According to the Highway Patrol, just after 7p.m., 33-year-old Sarah Presnell drove westbound on Highway 15 three miles east of Pekin when her pickup left the road, entered the ditch, rolled, and caught fire. She was not wearing…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) — Attorneys for a man accused in federal court of distribution of child pornography and related charges say key evidence in the case should be thrown out because it was discovered during the service of a search warrant in an unrelated construction fraud case. Magistrate Judge Alice Senechal heard testimony from investigators and forensic experts in the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A second man charged in connection with the murder of Phillip Bergquist in downtown Fargo last October has pleaded guilty to witness tampering. David Reyneros was sentenced to the 185 days he’d already spent in jail and was placed on probation for 18 months. Earlier this week, 39-year-old George Ortiz was given a 55-year prison term…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — Forty-five gang members and associates are indicted on federal charges in Minneapolis. The majority of the members from the Highs and the Bloods are from Minneapolis. Thirty of them are charged with alleged murder, attempted murder, robbery, obstruction of justice and drug trafficking. Additional charges include the use of a firearm to commit murder and drug trafficking….
OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a series of thefts. The sheriff’s office says over the past week, they have have gotten several reports of vehicles and garages that have been broken into in the rural Fergus Falls area. One of the homeowners hit says he lives in the Wall Lake area and…
George OrtizFARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — George Ortiz of Fargo changes his plea to guilty to murder in the October stabbing death of a Wisconsin man who had recently moved to Fargo. The 39-year-old Ortiz was sentenced to 55 years in prison. He admits killing 32-year-old Phillip Bergquist near the Red River in downtown Fargo by slitting his throat. The cases…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KVRR/FOX 9) — A man suspected of starting fires at two mosques in South Minneapolis last week is arrested. Thirty-six-year-old Jackie Rahm Little, aka Joel Tueting, is now facing felony arson charges for both fires, which took place about a block apart in the Philips neighborhood. People were inside worshipping at the time. Little was arrested in Mankato…
DILWORTH, Minn. (KFGO/KVRR) — A 34-year-old woman is hospitalized with serious injuries when she was hit by a vehicle in Dilworth Thursday night and a Clay County man is arrested. Dilworth Police say the woman was walking in the 200 block of 9th Street Northwest at around 10:00 p.m. when she was hit. Police say 53-year-old Michael Dennis Stulz was…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — An Alabama man is arrested in West Fargo after intentionally hitting a patrol vehicle with his after leading police on a pursuit. West Fargo police say they tried making a traffic stop shortly before 3:00 this morning in the 300 block of 4th Avenue East. Thirty-three-year-old David Baker fled southbound and a pursuit began. Baker’s…
