NORTH DAKOTA (KFGO) – Throughout 2022, Drug Enforcement Administration investigators nationwide reported seizing more than 379 million potentially deadly doses of fentanyl in both pill and powder form, enough to kill every American. In some states, seized-dose totals tripled the amount reported in 2021. DEA spokeswoman Emily Murray said 36,000 lethal doses of fentanyl were seized by federal agents in…
Shannon BrandtNORTH DAKOTA – (KFGO) – Tentative dates have been agreed upon for the trial of Shannon Brandt, who is accused of murdering 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson after a street dance in McHenry in September. At a hearing held via Zoom on Thursday morning, Southeast District Judge Bradley Cruff designated two weeks for the trial and scheduled it to start on…
MAPLETON, N.D. (KVRR) — Troopers with the North Dakota Highway Patrol conducted a high-risk traffic stop. They were responding to a report of a reckless driver/road rage incident around 3:00 this afternoon. Someone says their vehicle was shot at and a window broke. A vehicle was pulled over on I-94 near Mapleton where the suspect was taken into custody. The…
HUBBARD COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — A traffic stop in Hubbard County leads to a large meth bust. Deputies stopped a vehicle in Nevis township Tuesday night. They arrested the driver for a drug DWI. When deputies searched the car, they found 118 grams of meth and $8,000 in cash Categories: Crime, Local News, Minnesota News Tags: DWI, Hubbard County, Meth,…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – A Bismarck man is accused of raising a hatchet toward a convenience store clerk who tried to stop him from stealing doughnuts. Thirty-six-year old Brently Iron Road faces felony terrorizing and misdemeanor criminal trespass charges in connection with the incident December 23. Police say a clerk at the Simonson Station store confronted Iron Road after Iron…
Eric ReinboldTHIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — Eric Reinbold, who was convicted of killing his wife, has fired his attorney and forced a delay in his sentencing. In September, the Oklee, Minnesota man was found guilty of second-degree murder for the July 2021 stabbing death of Lisette Reinbold. Eric stabbed his wife 27 times in their driveway as she was…
ST. PAUL (KFGO) — A Fergus Falls man has been charged with 2nd degree murder in the weekend shooting death of a woman in St. Paul. 44-year-old Matthew Ecker is accused in the death of 32-year-old Alexandra Pennig. The criminal complaint says Ecker reported the death as a suicide, but investigators determined that Pennig did not shoot herself. Ecker is…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) – A person is hospitalized and another is in custody after Jamestown police say he stabbed the other man at an apartment on the city’s north side. Police responded at 12:45 Friday morning to the 1000 block of 16th Street Northeast where they found a man with multiple stab wounds to the abdomen. He was rushed by…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Grand Forks Police identify the subject of a SWAT raid last night in the city. He is 21-year-old Sam Payne, Jr. of Fargo. Police say Payne was wanted on two active warrants for possession of child pornography and promoting an obscene act by a minor. Grand Forks Regional SWAT Team was called out to search…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Tango Blast gang member from Mexico is sentenced to 15 years in prison for dealing drugs out of local hotels. 34-year-old Joel Quinonez appeared in U.S. District Court in Fargo for sentencing on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth, possession of firearms and reentry of removed alien. Quinonez was deported from…
