Izak SchermerhornFERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) – A man is in custody and another is dead after what sheriff’s officials are calling a drunk driving crash in lakes country Memorial Day. The Otter Tail County Sheriff’s office says dispatch got a call about the crash late Tuesday at about 10:45 PM near the intersection of 370th Street and 640th Avenue. When…
Tyreik Taylor-Roberts (Cass County Jail photo)FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A Fargo man has been sentenced for shooting and killing another man. Tyreik Taylor-Roberts was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter. A murder charge was dropped. Last September, Taylor-Roberts 25-year-old Jalab Moses got into an argument in an apartment complex parking lot south of NDSU. Taylor-Roberts…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A man with a nationwide warrant for failing to register as a sex offender is arrested in West Fargo after a traffic stop and foot chase. Police tried to stop 34-year-old Jonathan Grabowski around 9:45 this morning for a traffic violation in the 500 block of 17th Street East. As officers approached, Grabowski got out…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — 31-year-old Dominic Lilly of Fargo is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the continued sexual assault of a teen boy. Lilly amended his plea to guilty to five counts of gross sexual imposition back in December. He also plead guilty to transfer of body fluid that may contain HIV, luring minors by computer and contributing…
WEST FARGO, N.D. – The West Fargo Police Department made a DUI arrest early on the morning of Friday, May 23, after their suspect got themselves in a nasty crash. The WFPD says they responded to reports of a single vehicle rollover crash just after 12:30 A.M. Upon arrival, officers discovered the driver had driven off the road. The vehicle…
MOORHEAD, MN – The Moorhead Police Department has issued a statement saying that former Captain Deric Swenson is no longer under their employment. Swenson was serving as acting Deputy Chief when he was placed on administrative leave on March 24, 2025. This was following a complaint the city received regarding Swenson. The department says that because his employment expired while…
MOORHEAD, MINN. — The Moorhead Police Department says the mother of a 20-month-old child that died nearly two weeks ago has been arrested for second degree murder. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the child as 20-month-old Jose Lazarus Zamora, of Moorhead, and that their preliminary autopsy ruled the child’s death as a homicide. The child’s mother, 32-year-old Valerie…
FARGO — West Fargo police are investigating a Fargo man for what they say are sex crimes against a minor as well as drug crimes. Police officials say they got a report Wednesday that Aaron Lowell Cofell, 26, of West Fargo, sexually assaulted a minor and had sexually abused the child on more than one occasion. They say detectives found…
Isiah SimmsBISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Bismarck man charged with multiple counts of gross sexual imposition of a victim under 15 is changing his plea to guilty. Police officers found Isiah Simms with a 10-year-old girl walking around the North Dakota State Capitol grounds on August 23rd, 2024. The girl’s family called police after she reported through Snapchat that she was…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Moorhead man charged in a brutal downtown Fargo assault last year is found guilty on all three counts. 49-year-old John Hernandez was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault and a count of accomplice to aggravated assault. Sentencing is set for September 8. Hernandez was one of six people arrested for the April 6, 2024…
