FARGO — Their job is to keep the city safe. And now, Fargo’s firefighters and police officers are looking for help doing it. Both departments are now in the midst of a joint recruiting effort for both Fargo city fire and police positions. Fargo police say their department is no exception to the years-long recruiting shortages police departments nationwide have…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – Court documents obtained by KFGO give more details on a SWAT raid in Fargo over the weekend. Just before midnight Friday, Fargo Police responded to a call for a rape victim at a local hospital. That victim identified 39-year-old Travis Holt as her attacker. Court documents say the victim and Holt lived in the same apartment…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KFGO/KZZY) – Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office says a Watford City man is facing three counts of felony animal cruelty after at least two dogs were found dead in a camper in northeastern North Dakota on Friday. Authorities received a report about a dog locked in a camper in rural Crary, just east of Devils Lake, and began…
FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) – Court records are providing more details about a deadly stabbing outside a Fargo bar early last Thursday morning. Investigators say a bartender at SouthTown PourHouse told them that just before the stabbing that killed 22-year-old Ethan Larson of Newfolden, Minnesota, he heard Larson and Michael Diedrich agree to go fight outside. The bartender told the men “not…
FARGO (KFGO) – A 26-year-old Moorhead man is in the Cass County jail facing an attempted murder charge after a shooting in Fargo early Saturday morning. A spokesperson for Fargo Police says officers responded to the 1700 block of 15th Avenue S. around 2:30 a.m. on a report of a shooting. They also went to a hospital where someone was…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Police say a Newfolden, Minnesota man was the victim of a fatal stabbing early Thursday morning in Fargo. Twenty-eight-year-old Michael Diedrich is being held for murder in the death of 22-year-old Ethan Larson. Police were called to the parking lot of SouthTown PourHouse and Duane’s House of Pizza just before 1 a.m. where they found a…
CLAY COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — Two teens are in the Clay County Juvenile Detention Center after leading authorities on a pursuit in a stolen vehicle. Minnesota State Patrol says a trooper tried to make a traffic stop on I-94 near Barnesville around 1:30 this afternoon. The vehicle didn’t stop and took the Barnesville exit off the interstate. The driver then…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — Two boys are in juvenile detention in Moorhead after grabbing the cash of someone trying to purchase a gaming system after connecting on Facebook Marketplace. When he arrived at an apartment entryway in the 1500 block of Belsly Boulevard Tuesday afternoon, he was confronted by the boys who grabbed his money, pushed him and ran. During…
POLK CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Two men arrested after a report of a burglary in progress in Belgium Township in Polk County on Wednesday have been identified and charged. Polk County Sheriff’s Office says 29-year-old Robert Fish of Warren, Minnesota and 34-year-old Richard Paulson of Emerado, North Dakota are both charged with conspiracy to commit burglary in the 2nd and…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/FOX9) — A woman pleads guilty in a drug trafficking case in Fargo that had connections to a Mexican cartel. Deanna Gerads appeared in federal court to enter her plea in the case on Tuesday. She was arrested in Mexico last August after she’d been on the run for a year. Authorities say Gerads was part of a…
