DENT, Minn. (KFGO) – A man from Erhard, Minnesota has been charged for threatening to shoot customers at a bar on Star Lake last Thursday night. Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Bell’s Resort Bar and Grill saying that a man was causing a disturbance, that he may have a pistol and was threatening to shoot other…
MARSHALL CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A Stephen, Minnesota woman is facing several charges after being accused of stealing or attempting to steal numerous vehicles on September 15. Marshall County Sheriff’s Office says Jordan Krolak first took the keys out of a person’s hand and stole their pickup. When deputies caught up to her on a gravel road, she fled. The…
GRAND FORKS (KFGO) – A Grand Forks man is facing charges after assaulting both his current wife and ex-wife early Monday. Police responded to a home just before 2 a.m. Monday for a report of a domestic assault. Court documents say when officers arrived, a woman outside told them she’d been hit in the head by her ex-husband. She told…
FOX 9ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — Minnesota lawmakers could look to increase penalties for repeat drunk drivers in response to the deadly crash at the Park Tavern in St. Louis Park. Senator Ron Latz of St. Louis Park says the state has a robust system for repeat offenders with driver’s license revocation and mandatory ignition interlocks. He says the…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Fargo man is charged after a hit-and-run last Tuesday in Moorhead. 55-year-old Derek McClarren is charged with criminal vehicular operation, hit and run, open bottle and 4th degree DWI. Police say McClarren hit a person in the 2400 block of 28th Avenue South who was trying to help a woman get her car out of…
OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) – A woman is suspected of DWI after a rollover crash into a water-filled ditch. That’s according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office. They say they got the call about a crash just after 2:15 Wednesday morning on the 21000 block of German Lake Road south of Underwood. 43-year-old Nichole Beauchamp went off the…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) – Minnesota Department of Safety is reminding people to drive sober as we head into the holidays. This also means there will be extra DWI patrols throughout the state. “Impaired is impaired. Doesn’t matter what you’re using,” said Mike Hanson, the DPS Director of Traffic Safety. “Whether it’s alcohol, or whether it’s cannabis or a prescription…
GLENWOOD, Wis. (AP) — A suspected drunken driver shot and killed a Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop before running into some nearby woods and killing himself, authorities said Sunday. During a conversation about field sobriety tests, Jeremiah Johnson was “evasive,” drew a handgun and shot St. Croix County Deputy Kaitie Leising in Glenwood, about 60 miles east of…
ADA, Minn. (KVRR) — The mayor of Ada, Minnesota is facing a DWI charge tied to a crash back in November. Court records show 36-year-old John Hintz rolled his pickup in a ditch in Norman County. Hintz and a passenger had no major injuries. But he failed two sobriety tests in the field and a urine test later came back…
ST. PAUL (KVRR) — Officers across Minnesota made 2,228 DWI arrests during the holiday campaign. That is up around 200 arrests from the 2021 campaign. One of the arrests that stood out was in Roseau where a trooper found a 58-year-old man passed out in the driver’s seat, stuck in a snowbank, with his foot on the accelerator. The trooper…
