FARGO, N.D.–A North Dakota clinic is accused of participating in kickback schemes that have cost the federal government millions of dollars in fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims. A whistleblower complaint brought against Bismarck’s Mid Dakota Clinic and its building partnership alleges that doctors referred patients to the clinic’s surgical center, allowing them to increase their pay in the form of…
MINNEAPOLIS–Two St. Louis Park parents are charged with child endangerment and neglect after prosecutors say their 1-year-old son tested positive for fentanyl. The child survived after spending six days in the hospital. A criminal complaint says police were called to the couple’s apartment Oct. 3 because the boy had become unresponsive. Police say the parents, Waymon Murphy and Deja Harper,…
WAHPETON, N.D. – An Oklahoma man is charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a man with a bayonet in Wahpeton. Police responded to 489 14th Street Northwest around 8:00 PM on Friday October 11th on an assault report. Officers say a 30-year-old Fargo man was stabbed with a bayonet by a man who fled the scene. The victim was…
FARGO, N.D. — A man is charged with terrorizing after Fargo Police get a call of shots fired around 4:30 this morning in North Fargo. Lt. Bill Ahlfeldt says two men and a woman had a disagreement at the Ashwood II Apartments on 10th Street and 30th Avenue North. He says no one was injured but officers found shell…
BARNES COUNTY, N.D. — Fargo Police is investigating the kidnapping of a woman who was found earlier this afternoon. Officers say 33–year–old Kristin Hettervig told her brother she was kidnapped by her ex–boyfriend, 41–year–old Matthew Hanson. Police asked for the public’s help in finding the white pick–up they may have been traveling in. Hettervig and Hanson were found in Rural…
ST. PAUL, Minn.–A U.S. Postal Service worker from western Minnesota has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 in government benefits. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 57-year-old Lisa Ann Schafer of Glenwood pleaded guilty to theft of government funds. According to Schafer’s guilty plea and court documents, from September 2015 through early May 2019, Schafer claimed that a work-related injury…
MINNEAPOLIS–Minneapolis police made one arrest and issued one citation during protests outside a campaign rally by President Donald Trump. Police say the arrest was for damage to property and the citation was for disorderly conduct. Several thousand people protested outside Target Center on Thursday as Trump spoke inside. Police Chief Medaria Arradondo says the protests were largely peaceful, but some…
GREEVILLE, S.C.–Federal authorities say a South Carolina woman kidnapped a girl from Minnesota and sexually assaulted her. Citing an FBI affidavit, news outlets report 23-year-old Katrina Marie Aliff was arrested last month on charges including aggravated child sexual abuse. The affidavit says Aliff met the girl, who’s younger than 12, on the messaging app Amino in March. It says the…
MINNEAPOLIS–A judge says the police seizure of more than $4 million in marijuana and other contraband from two Montana men who were driving through Minnesota was illegal. District Judge Timothy Churchwell on Tuesday dismissed charges of controlled substance sales filed against 31-year-old Michael Desroches, of Missoula, Montana, and 24-year-old Alexander Gordon, of Helena, Montana. They were pulled over last March…
MANDAN, N.D.–The driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Mandan is charged with felony negligent homicide. Seventy-four-year-old Gene Mosbrucker is accused of striking 79-year-old Shirley Lee last month in the parking lot of an apartment building. A court affidavit says a witness told police Mosbrucker was backing up when his Suburban struck Lee and knocked her…
