FARGO, N.D. — For the last few years, tackling opioid addiction has been a major battle for law enforcement across the metro. Even though 2018 has seen fewer opioid–related deaths, Fargo Police officers say they still have work to do. “We went from 20 opioid deaths to this year; we’re down to only six overdose deaths. On the current trend, it…
OSAGE, Minn. – A man and a woman have been arrested after a search warrant is executed in Osage on Wednesday. The Becker County Sheriff’s Office says 1.35 pounds of “suspected marijuana” and nearly three quarters of a pound of butane hash oil wax with an estimated street value of $16,000 and four guns were seized. 18-year-old Morgan Anderson…
HARWOOD, N.D. – Police are investigating after an unidentified person was stabbed at the Harwood Grill and Saloon on Sunday. Cass County Deputies were dispatched around midnight to the Cenex station. The sheriff’s office says a party bus arrived at the bar around 11:45 Saturday night. An altercation happened as people were leaving the bar. The victim suffered non-life threatening…
It’s a nighttime event coming up you’re sure to want to put on your pas-de-deux list. Dancing with the Doctors is coming up next Tuesday, September 18th, and it couldn’t come in a more timely fashion. Fargo police just announced that the number of overdoses, including one fatality, in the last 6 weeks is equal to the total number they’ve…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – Two people were arrested in Fargo in separate incidents with credit to police K9 Falco. Police say shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday, a man who led authorities in Clay County on a pursuit crossed in Fargo and abandoned his vehicle on 25th Street South, near I-94 and ran on foot. Falco tracked the suspect to where…
Fargo, N.D. – A 26-year-old Fargo man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on child pornography charges. Damian Olvera was sentenced on charges of possession of materials containing child pornography and receipt of materials containing child pornography. He was also sentenced to 15 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $200 in special assessments to the Crime…
FARGO, N.D. — Fargo police got a call around 2:30 a.m. Saturday that a man was in the hallway of the I-94 AmericInn hotel with a firearm. But that’s not what they found. “When officers arrived, they found a male victim, later identified as Jakob Dirks, 23 years old, lying in one of the hallways,” said deputy chief Joe Anderson,…
FARGO, ND — A Cooperstown, ND man arrested for murder in the stabbing death of a man at the AmericInn in Fargo early Saturday has been released from jail without charges. Investigators say 21-year-old Alan Bear was acting in self -defense when he stabbed 23-year-old Jakob Dirks in the abdomen. The West Fargo man was found by police in a…
MOORHEAD, MINN. (KFGO) – A Fargo woman was arrested for a gun incident at the Moorhead Buffalo Wild Wings. Police responded to a call around 7:30 p.m. Sunday about a suicidal woman with a handgun inside the bar, telling people to evacuate the building. Some customers and staff did get out but police who arrived learned the woman was still…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — A disturbance at Buffalo Wild Wings in Moorhead led to the evacuation of the restaurant. According to witnesses inside the restaurant at the time, the wait staff informed each table that there were concerns about a woman drinking and that she possibly had a gun. The guests were ushered outside while authorities were called. At one point, four…
