FARGO, ND — The Fargo Police Department wants you to know about a new address for a level three sex offender. Charles Carrington, Jr., 49, is now living at 735 14th Street North in Fargo. Carrington is a high-risk sex offender and is a lifetime registrant. Carrington was convicted in 2006 of sexual abuse of a minor. His victim was…
BISMARCK, ND — The California man, who was arrested during a traffic stop in North Dakota for having nearly 200 pounds of marijuana, has been sentenced. Harold Miller, 71, of Sacramento, California will serve one year in prison on felony and misdemeanor drug possession charges. Miller was arrested following a traffic stop on I-94 near Bismarck. In his vehicle, he…
CASS COUNTY, ND — The Fargo man who sexually assaulted an employee of a Mapleton gas station has been sentenced. Abdulrahman Ali, 37, has been sentenced to 26 years in prison. Ali was convicted on five felony counts, including gross sexual imposition. Authorities say Ali entered Gordy’s Travel Plaza in Mapleton, attacked the woman employee by punching and kicking…
FARGO, ND — Last year, 23 people died from opioids in Cass County. This year, through September there have been nine. The numbers seem to be decreasing in the metro, but the epidemic is still affecting hundreds. Solving a problem as big as the opioid epidemic is not simple. “The medical folks are dealing with the issues of drugs and…
GRAND FORKS, ND — North Dakota U.S. Senator John Hoeven is talking up the work done at our bases in Grand Forks and Minot. During the bipartisan Air Force Caucus, Hoeven outlined the vital role the bases play to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Vice Chief of Staff General Stephen Wilson. He says leaders need to ensure funding for…
NORTH DAKOTA — A pair of Chinese nationals has been indicted for manufacturing tons of fentanyl and other powerful narcotics that were peddled in the United States and flowed, in part, through North Dakota. One of the two, 38-year-old Jian Zhang, was indicted in North Dakota, along with eight others accused in the conspiracy. North Dakota U.S. Attorney Christopher Myers…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — An officer-involved shooting last night in St. Cloud is under investigation. According to the BCA, a Stearns County sheriff’s deputy and several St. Cloud police officers were investigating a possible assault shortly before midnight. They knocked on a door and an armed man broke out a back window and ran. The man fired his gun,…
LAS VEGAS — A Minot man who was shot during the Las Vegas massacre is improving. Thirty-one-year-old Andrew Gudmunson is out of the ICU according to his employer, Century 21 Action Realtors in Minot. He has undergone at least four surgeries since being shot in the abdomen on October 1. Gudmunson was one of more than 500 people wounded…
MORTON COUNTY, ND — The North Dakota Supreme Court has denied a petition by some judges who argued out-of-state lawyers were no longer needed to represent Dakota Access pipeline protesters. Judges from the South Central District wanted the change since no new cases have been filed. In January, the court allowed out-of-state attorneys to assist pipeline protest-related cases if…
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — A Grand Rapids woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for her role in the decapitation of a Hibbing man. Kayleene Greniger, 23, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. She admitted to decapitating 20 year-old David Haiman with a machete after her boyfriend assaulted him with a baseball bat and stabbed him near Grand Rapids….
