MANDAN, N.D.–A teenager has been sentenced to five years in prison for taking part in an attack on guards at a juvenile corrections center in Mandan. Seventeen-year-old Elijah Barse and three other youths were accused in the uprising at the Youth Correctional Center in January 2018. The inmates were accused of choking one guard and handcuffing him in an attempt…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – Two men were arrested by police during a traffic stop near Fargo North High School about 1:30 a.m. Monday. The car pulled over in the 1900 block of 9 1/2 Street after an officer recognized the driver, 34-year-old Rodney Spicer, who was wanted on several Fargo and Cass County warrants. The passenger yelled at Spicer to…
FARGO (KFGO) – A Fargo woman who nearly hit a state trooper on I-94 in Fargo Fri. morning was arrested for drunken driving. 32-year-old Jennifer Hirchert almost struck the officer, who was providing traffic control for a tow truck. The patrol says Hirchert has four past DUI convictions and this her second arrest this year. Her blood-alcohol level was .17…
MOORHEAD, MN (KFGO) – A suspect wanted for a stabbing in Moorhead was arrested in Fargo. Police say two men were fighting in downtown Moorhead when the victim was cut in the hand. Triston Wallette, 22, was tracked down in Fargo and is being held in the Cass County Jail. The two know each other and were quarreling outside the…
FARGO, N.D. — A 13-page internal investigation says Fargo Police officers acted appropriately back in October, when they shot 27-year-old Tyler Patel with a pepperball gun and blinded him in one eye. “There’s definitely some pieces here that are not coming together in a way that they should, let’s put it that way. It’s like adding two plus two and…
HASTINGS, Minn.–A Burnsville man who killed his infant son has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison. Thirty-three-year-old Michael Herkal admitted slapping and violently shaking the 13-day-old baby after the child wouldn’t stop crying. He pleaded guilty Wednesday in the death of Anthony Herkal and was sentenced to 290 months in prison. Police responded to a report of…
GRAND FORKS, N.D.–The Grand Forks Police Department is continuing to search for the person involved in a fatal hit-and-run that happened in April. Police say the vehicle was most likely a white 2003-2015 Murano with damage to the right front corner of the vehicle and possibly to the hood. They say a 2006-2016 Nissan Rogue, 2011-2019 Nissan X-Trail and a…
CLAY COUNTY, Minn. –Authorities arrest two women after a high-speed pursuit that started in Barnesville. The Clay County Sheriff’s Office says it happened around 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Twenty-one-year old Chelsea Probasco, of Moorhead, fled a traffic stop and led officers on a pursuit through several county roads, hitting speeds up to 100 mph. The vehicle went into a ditch after…
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. – Two men have been arrested after a standoff in East Grand Forks. Officers and the Pine to Prairie Drug Task Force served a search warrant on the 600 block of 10th Street Northwest on Friday. Once they got inside, they say two men barricaded themselves in the basement. One of them said he had a…
FARGO, N.D. – U.S. Marshals are searching for what they call a dangerous Red Lake man who didn’t report back to a Fargo recovery center. 37-year-old Timothy Beaulieu, Junior didn’t return to Centre Inc. after signing out around 6:30 PM Thursday to go to church. Beaulieu is 5’8″ tall and weighs 218 pounds. He was last seen wearing a brown…
