LARIMORE, N.D. (KVRR) — Names are released in Saturday’s homicide and officer involved shooting in Larimore, North Dakota. Grand Forks County Sheriff Andy Schneider says 64-year-old Jamey Holweger was shot to death in a home. The suspect, 43-year-old Troy Larson, had shot at Holweger and a woman at the residence early Saturday afternoon. The woman was able to escape to…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — A man who got into a gunfight with police in Grand Forks is now facing a long list of charges including four counts of attempted murder. The SWAT team was attempting to execute a high risk search warrant on 30-year-old Jeffrey Simpson Jr.. It happened last Friday afternoon around 2:15 in the 3300 Block of…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — A Moorhead woman is sentenced to 60 days in Clay County Jail for a hit and run last April that injured a 12-year-old boy. In January, 60-year-old Jacqueline Swanson changed her plea to guilty to criminal vehicular homicide, a second count was dropped. During her sentencing today, the judge gave Swanson 18 months in prison but…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Police in Moorhead identify the young child who died under suspicious circumstances as 3-year-old Eastyn Deronjic. The boy was taken to Sanford early Monday after he was found not breathing at 1502 Belsly Boulevard South in Moorhead. He was later pronounced dead. Police say the boy and his younger sibling had been staying at the address…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Two DUI arrests were made during the latest sobriety checkpoint in Fargo held early Saturday evening on the I-29 exit ramp onto 52nd Avenue South. One thousand vehicles traveled through the checkpoint. North Dakota Highway Patrol and Cass County Sheriff’s Office screened 13 drivers for impairment which resulted in the DUI arrests. One vehicle stopped prior…
BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. (KVRR) — A Breckenridge man is accused of raping a woman at an apartment building last Friday. 49-year-old Emery Hagen is charged with two felony counts of criminal sexual conduct. Police got a 911 call and arrived to yelling by a woman and a man. When they refused to open the apartment door, officers from Breckenridge and Wahpeton…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Corrections has penalized a county jail for depriving an inmate of food and water for more than two days as punishment after he smeared feces in his cell and refused to clean it up. The department ordered the Otter Tail County Jail in Fergus Falls to transfer all current inmates to…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Police released its 2023 crime report, and one of the biggest takeaways is the amount of fentanyl pills that were seized. Cass County Drug Task Force, which includes Fargo Police, seized more than 85,000 pills last year. That is an increase of 126% from 2022. But the most alarming stat that wasn’t in the report,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A West Fargo in-home daycare provider is sentenced to just under one year behind bars for child neglect. 42-year-old Miranda Sorlie entered Alford pleas to two counts of child neglect, seven other charges were dropped. An Alford plea means Sorlie maintains her innocence but admits that evidence could find her guilty. She was given 360 days…
TODD CO., Minn. (KVRR/FOX9/KFGO) — Disturbing details about the woman who set off an Amber Alert this past weekend in Red Lake, Minnesota. 36-year-old Jennifer Stately is charged with child torture. According to the charges, Stately was stopped in Todd County near Long Prairie, about a 150-mile drive south from her address. In the backseat, authorities say Stately’s child was…
