MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (KFGO) – A chiropractor from Thief River Falls will spend more than two years in federal prison for wire fraud. Richard Wiseth, 36, pleaded guilty to defrauding health insurers by submitting false and fraudulent claims for chiropractic services. Prosecutors say Wiseth billed insurance companies more than three-million dollars for treatments that were not provided or overbilled from March…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KFGO) – A sex offender committed to the North Dakota State Hospital in Jamestown who walked away has been taken into custody. State Patrol Captain Bryan Niewind says several motorists reported a man walking south on highway 281, about 13 miles south of Jamestown shortly after 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. A trooper responded and took 30-year old Jerry Stewart…
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) _ A defendant accused of killing a man during a robbery in St. Louis County has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Darrel Mayhew earlier pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of 70-year-old Larry Watczak at his Duluth home last January. Prosecutors say Mayhew struck Watczak in the head with a bottle, took his…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KFGO) – A man escaped serious injury and was arrested for DUI after his car slammed into a power transformer box in Grand Forks. Police say it happened shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday as 70-year old Ronald Palm was driving east on 32nd Avenue South. His car ran off the roadway and struck the power box, knocking…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – Fargo police are warning about a new illegal drug threat…possibly contaminated marijuana sold in Fargo that sent two people to Sanford Medical Center in Fargo this past weekend with serious reactions. One victim was reported to be in a coma. Another victim is cooperating with narcotic’s investigators as they track down the source of the drug….
WHITE EARTH, Minn. — The White Earth community is mourning the loss of Jamie “Honker” Bevins, who was shot to death early Sunday morning. Authorities are asking for help finding the suspect, 18–year old Ronald Wayne Elias Thompson III of Detroit Lakes. If you know where Thompson may be, call 911. Bevins’ family is having a five-day spirit fire to honor Jamie….
UPDATE: A GoFundMe for a missing man last seen in June 2018 in Devils Lake says his body has been recovered. The fundraiser for Joseph Bruce Sr. says he was going to the Twin Cities because his disabled son, Joseph Jr., was life-flighted to St. Paul Children’s Hospital. They say the last thing they heard from him was he was…
UPDATE: Two men have been arrested on murder charges in the death of a Fargo man. 19-year-old Kareem Byrd and 30-year-old Charles Harris the third, both of Fargo, were taken into custody in the murder of 38-year-old Jason Halvorson. FARGO, N.D.– “I can’t get that image out of my face seeing that man lay there like that,” Shooting bystander Tim…
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — A Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder has been sentenced to a 12.5 year prison term for the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman who had called 911. A Minnesota jury convicted Mohamed Noor in April of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old dual citizen of the…
FARGO, ND — Fargo Police are investigating a possible drowning overnight. Around 11:00 p.m. Thursday night Fargo Police answered a call in the 1500 block of 5th Avenue for a possible drowning. An 11 year old boy was transferred to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Categories: Community, Crime, Local News, North Dakota News Tags: Fargo Police…
