Mark PavelichGRAND MARAIS, Minn.–“Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey star Mark Pavelich has been found incompetent to stand trial for felony assault. The decision was made during a hearing Monday in Cook County. The Minnesota Duluth alum and former N-H-L player was arrested in August when a neighbor reported Pavelich attacked him with a metal pole. The judge said at the…
FARGO, N.D. – The blood spatter on the sidewalk outside of M.A. Auto Sales on Main Avenue is still fresh from a crash. It’s where 30-year-old driver Moses Yalartai struck six of the body shop’s vehicles Sunday morning around 2:30. Marwan Ali says since he took over the shop two years ago, he’s never experienced anything like this. “Shocks, to be…
FARGO, N.D. – It all began with Stephanie Patel’s post on the social media platform Nextdoor over the weekend. She claims her son, 27-year-old Tyler Patel, was shot with pepper balls by Fargo police officers on October 2nd at 1300 Gateway Drive causing him to be blinded in one eye. Patel was arrested for terrorizing and preventing arrest. Police are…
MINOT, N.D. – A Minot Air Force Base Airman is sentenced to seven years in prison for distributing child porn. From 2016 to 2018, Carl Dean solicited, received and distributed the pornography. He plead guilty in July. Dean created a female alias and sought people who had access to children. He asked them if they were willing to take naked…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – A Grand Forks woman is charged with DUI after crashing into a semi on I-29 Monday morning. It happened near the Demers Avenue exit around 10:00. The Highway Patrol says 60-year-old Ann Halverson was driving the wrong way when she struck the semi. The truck went into the median and struck cable barriers. Halverson was taken…
FARGO, N.D. – A federal judge turns down a request to hold an open hearing on Alfonso Rodriguez’s death penalty appeal. U.S. Attorney for North Dakota Drew Wrigley asked for a hearing in Fargo within 30 days last week. Judge Ralph Erickson says the issues he wanted to discuss have been resolved. They include setting deadlines for the timely release…
WILLISTON, N.D.–Police say a Williston woman accused of trying to exact revenge by setting a fire to a mobile home targeted the wrong house. Authorities say 26-year-old Kassandra Cote thought she was setting fire to the home of someone who had stolen items from a storage unit. Cote’s accused of placing a two-liter bottle of gas outside the home and…
FARGO, N.D.–A drunk driver was arrested after striking cars in the parking lot of a used auto dealership at approximately 2:40 a.m. on Sunday. Officers responded to the 1800 block of Main Avenue for a report of a vehicle hitting multiple cars in the parking lot of Altimate Auto Sales. Police located the driver, identified as 30-year-old Moses Yalartai, after…
MINOT, N.D.–A Minot man has been sent to prison for three years for stealing a Bobcat skid-steer loader from the Ward County Highway Department. Thirty-year-old Michael Schell must also serve three years of probation and pay more than $1,100 in court costs for stealing the skid steer valued at $80,000 last January. Investigators sent a cigarette butt and vape with…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Moorhead police are investigating after a disturbance at a business was called in. It happened in the 2200 block of 14th Avenue South. The employee says someone broke down the door and “held him up” with a gun. When police arrived, the suspect drove away. The employee says he had a dispute over property with the man…
