WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — West Fargo Police say 25-year-old Austin Strom of Browerville, Minnesota was trying to unlawfully enter Prairie Heights Church just before 8 a.m. Saturday when he was confronted by two men. They say 66-year-old Kent Hodges of West Fargo confronted Strom as he continued attempts to enter the building. Strom became extremely agitated and physically attacked…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Florida woman is facing charges for her role in scamming someone in Fergus Falls out of $20,000. 22-year-old Nadia Islam was arrested when she went to the home to pick up cash. The victim called police on August 14 saying their computer froze and they called Microsoft. A return caller told the victim they…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO/FOX) — A Fergus Falls woman was arrested and faces second-degree assault and other charges after investigators say she tried to run over her boyfriend Saturday afternoon while they were on the way to couples therapy. Authorities say the two reportedly had been fighting all day and the victim asked 30-year-old Veronica Gast to take him back to…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Grand Forks man is facing child porn charges after investigators allegedly found 10 photos depicting child sex abuse. 59-year-old Danny Lane was linked to a Kik account that was flagged last October for child porn by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. On June 25, Grand Forks Police served a search warrant…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – Family and Prairie Heights are naming the man who was shot and killed in the church parking lot yesterday morning as 25-year-old Austin Strom. Strom’s aunt, Rochelle Rech, has created a GoFundMe campaign to help her sister, Robin, with the burden of funeral costs. Rech says in a post, “He was only 25 years old…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — A second arrest is made in connection to a Moorhead shootout last week. The Metro Street Crimes Task Force located and arrested 24-year-old Markees Dempsey of Fargo. Moorhead Police say he was involved in the shooting in the 1000 block of 14th Street South on August 7, south of MSUM. He was arrested in Fargo and…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Police in Grand Forks catch up with a man they say stole an electric scooter on Tuesday. An officer spotted a man matching the description of the wanted man near Orton’s gas station at 2002 South Washington Street. The suspect is 35-year-old Ronald Vondal-Nelson, of Grand Forks. When they tried to approach him, he took…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Police in Grand Forks are looking for a man on a stolen electric scooter. They say the man used a bolt cutter to cut the lock on the RAD scooter at Manke Family Dentistry on South Washington just before noon. When the thief was confronted, he used the bolt cutter as a weapon and threatened…
Joshua BrooksFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo man who has pleaded guilty for his role in a fatal drive-by shooting in 2020 has been sentenced. Joshua Brooks was given a 40 year sentence but will be eligible for parole after serving 23 years and six months. Brooks plead guilty to accomplice to murder. An aggravated assault charge was dropped earlier…
BECKER, CO., Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — The suspect in a fatal shooting near Frazee, Minnesota Saturday is claiming self-defense. 31-year-old Willis McDonald told deputies that he was visiting a woman he had met days before when 31-year-old Arlan Bergstrom Jr. broke his car window and began punching him. McDonald says he reached for his handgun and shot him as he continued…
