FARGO, N.D. — A Brooklyn Center woman who is accused of setting a fire inside a Twin Cities store has been arrested in Fargo. 38-year-old Lewonda Jones is being held in the Cass County Jail pending her return to Minnesota. Hennepin County authorities charged Jones with arson after she set a clothing rack on fire at Marshalls on Nicollet Mall…
FARGO, ND — Fargo Police are thanking a group of young crime fighters after a drug bust on Thursday. According to the Fargo Police Department Facebook page the following happened: On Thursday July 12th, the Fargo Police Department Narcotics Unit and the Metro Street Crimes Unit served a narcotics search warrant at a local motel room. As officers were making…
FARGO, N.D. — A new video visitation system is up and running at Cass County Jail. Inmate visitation is now available 7 days a week starting at 8 am and ending each night when the housing units lockdown for the evening. Visitors have the option of either going to the jail to use one of five video stations that have…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – A man who threatened others with a knife in downtown Fargo was arrested overnight. Two victims told officers they were walking in the 600 block of 1st Avenue North when a man riding a bike pulled a knife from his pocket and yelled at them as he approached. Believing they were in danger, they called 9-1-1…
WEST FARGO (KFGO) – A California man was arrested after the state patrol says it made a traffic stop and I-94 near West Fargo and found a 100 lbs. of marijuana. A West Fargo Police K9 was called to the scene and indicated that drugs were in the car. The 33 year-old man, Steven Shipe of Eureka, CA, was taken…
FARGO, N.D. — A former Catholic priest in Fargo and West Fargo has reached a plea deal and pleaded guilty to molesting two teenage brothers. 53-year-old Fernando Sayasaya was accused of molesting the boys between 1995 and 1998. He left the U.S. for the Philippines before he was charged. It took about 19 years before he was returned to this…
FARGO, ND — The Cass County Jail is currently in a modified lockdown due to a failure of the backup power generator. The jail is currently under full power from the local grid, but does not have the mandatory backup system available in the case of an unexpected power outage. All inmates and staff are currently safe, and…
FARGO, N.D. — Lawsuits filed by four inmates of the Cass County Jail, demanding hundreds of millions of dollars, have been dismissed in District Court. In the first case filed in 2016, three inmates had accused several staff members of intentionally and secretly serving pork after they had notified the jail of religious restrictions. The jail had actually…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) _ A judge has set bail at $5 million cash for a Catholic priest accused of molesting two boys in North Dakota in the 1990s. Fernando Laude Sayasaya appeared in court on Tuesday via video from the Cass County Jail. He’s facing two counts of gross sexual imposition. Sayasaya was recently returned to the United States from…
FARGO, ND — A man on a bicycle was arrested by Fargo police Saturday night for DUI after he was struck by a car. 61-year old Scott Olsen of Fargo was crossing the street at 13th Avenue and 25th Street South when the crash happened around 7. Olsen received some minor injuries in the collision. He was also wanted on…
