MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ A small, rural community in western Wisconsin is planning a vigil for a missing 13_year_old girl whose parents were found shot to death in their home. A “Gathering of Hope“ will take place Monday evening at Riverview Middle School in Barron for Jayme Closs, who hasn’t been seen since Oct. 15 . Deputies responding to a…
Grand Forks, N.D. – (KFGO) – — A woman was arrested after passing out at the wheel of her car at a busy Grand Forks intersection. Police responded to the call shortly after 6 p.m Sunday at the corner of Demers Avenue and Washington Street. Officers found the car locked and tried unsuccessfully to wake the driver, 24-year old Brooke…
FARGO (KFGO) – A Moorhead police officer is on paid administrative leave after being charged with felony assault in Fargo. According to court documents, Officer Matthew Lambert struck Jennifer Thomas with his elbow, causing injuries to her face. Thomas was arrested in September for an incident involving a gun at the Moorhead Buffalo Wild Wings. Thomas was allegedly assaulted by…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KFGO) – A Moorhead police officer who had been charged with two counts of drunken driving has resigned. Sgt. Thad Stafford was off duty when he was arrested in August after someone near Mick’s Office Bar reported seeing an intoxicated man get into a vehicle. Police later located the vehicle in the 2000 block of 33rd street south….
UPDATE – Fargo Police Officers have safely located Bradford Anderson, who was report as missing on October 18, 2018 at 12:23 a.m. (Original Story) — FARGO, ND — Fargo Police are asking for the public’s help to find a missing 12 year old boy. According to their Facebook Page: This morning at 12:23 a.m., Fargo Police Officers responded to a…
FARGO, ND – A Fargo man faces a felony charge for agreeing to have sex with a minor in a sting conducted by the state human trafficking task force, Homeland Security, North Dakota BCI and Metro Street Crimes Unit. Police say 42-year-old Wade Pfarr agreed to pay for sex with an underage girl, not realizing that the he was communicating with…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – William Hoehn will be sentenced Monday, October, 29th. The Fargo man pleaded guilty earlier this year to kidnapping-conspiracy and providing false information to police in the August, 2017 death of Savanna Greywind. He could face up to 20-years in prison on the kidnapping plea and lesser sentence on the lying plea. Prosecutors have yet to say…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Jamaican man who authorities said masterminded a lottery scam that defrauded at least 95 mostly elderly Americans out of more than $5.8 million has been sentenced to six years in federal prison. Prosecutors said 29-year-old Lavrick Willocks operated the scam out of a Jamaica mansion. They eventually charged 27 people and identified victims in several…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — In just a few more weeks, the new Clay County Jail will be moving inmates into its housing units. Construction on the jail started in April 2017 and will be able to hold up to 186 inmates. Each of the maximum security, housing units in the facility are named after local rivers including Red River, Buffalo East &…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) – A Minnesota man has been charged with raping a 12-year-old Kansas girl who was the focus of an Amber Alert. Twenty-three-year-old Dechon Michael White, of South St. Paul, Minnesota, was booked Friday into the Johnson County, Kansas, jail, where his bond is set at $250,000. Federal prosecutors initially charged White with kidnapping after he allegedly took…
