MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Moorhead man is jailed after fleeing police and crashing a stolen U-Haul into a snowbank in Moorhead. Minnesota State Patrol says 40-year-old David Jacobsen was arrested Sunday for receiving stolen property and fleeing police. A Fargo officer tried to stop the stolen U-Haul Sunday afternoon but Jacobsen fled. He later fled another attempted stop by…
CLAY COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — A traffic stop on I-94 leads to a large drug bust and two arrests. Moorhead Police say they conducted a traffic stop along with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and Minnesota State Patrol in Clay County. They arrested 40-year-old David Keen Jr. and 25-year-old…
Officer Andrew Werk / Moorhead Police DepartmentST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota BCA identifies the officer and suspect in an officer-involved shooting on the 4th of July in Moorhead. They are investigating Officer Andrew Werk’s use of force for firing his gun while on a foot chase with 23-year old Isiah Hopkins of Moorhead. Hopkins remains in the Clay County Jail…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – When Julie Savat began work as a correctional officer at the Clay County Jail in 1991, inmates were kept behind steel bars in an aging facility that eventually would be demolished and replaced. Fast forward to 2021. The steel bars are gone and the county has one of the newest, state-of-the-art jails in Minnesota. Soon, the…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Twenty-two-year-old Benjamin Enderle sits in a Clay County jail tonight, accused of vandalizing a Moorhead Mosque. His arrest is being credited to a Walmart store employee. “An investigator came out when the mosque had video ready for us and we started working on the case,” Moorhead Police Chief Shannon Monroe said. Monroe recounts how a Walmart…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KFGO) – Moorhead Police Officers were dispatched to a south Moorhead apartment New Years’ Eve on a report of a stabbing. When officers arrived at the apartment at 1901 20th Street South they found a man with a stab wound to the arm. Police were able to immediately locate and arrest 44-year-old Ortis Alderman. He is being held at…
MOORHEAD, Minn.- A Fargo man is in the Clay County Jail after a robbery in south Moorhead Monday night. Police say 21–year–old Penja Lawuya met the victim on social media and discussed selling an electronic device. He then allegedly entered the victim’s car and displayed a handgun and took the device. Lawuya faces aggravated robbery charges. Shortly before 9 p.m….
Moorhead, M.N.–A woman was arrested after assaulting a Moorhead police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday. The officer was on patrol when he recognized a woman driving who had active warrants. He conducted a traffic stop at about 1:10 p.m. in the 400 block of 2nd Ave. S. When the officer approached the woman’s car, she attempted to place…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — One man is arrested after officers find heroin during a narcotics search. Police arrest 34-year-old Dennis Akins, of Moorhead, after searching a house at 1220 14th Street North. Authorities found 12 grams of powder heroin with an estimated street value of $2,400. Six children were in the house at the time with their mother. He is being…
Izetta CooleyMOORHEAD, MN — Authorities have arrested a Minnesota mother who was on the run and have located four of her five missing children. Police say 39-year-old Izetta Cooley and the four children were found at a home in Moorhead Tuesday. Officials say Cooley was arrested on a felony kidnapping warrant from Mower County. She’s being held in the Clay…
