Leonard PeltierWASHINGTON – Hundreds of activists and Indigenous leaders rallied outside the White House on Tuesday in support of Leonard Peltier on his 79th birthday, holding signs and chanting slogans urging President Joe Biden to grant clemency to the Native American leader. Peltier is serving life in prison for killing two FBI agents during a 1975 standoff on the Pine…
MINNESOTA (KVRR) — A Red Lake woman has been sentenced to five years in prison followed by two years of supervised release for her role in an arson conspiracy on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. According to court documents, Dalene Roberta Fajardo, 35, Corey Leigh Stately, 40, and Lori Anna Sayers, 33, conspired and knowingly agreed to commit arson to…
Mohamad BarakatFARGO – The gunman who last month killed a Fargo police officer and wounded two others and a civilian reportedly admitted owning nearly a dozen guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition in a 2022 police interview following a kitchen fire at his home. Firefighters notified police after seeing guns, ammunition and propane tanks in Mohamad Barakat’s apartment, according…
Mohamad BarakatMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The heavily armed man who killed one Fargo police officer and wounded two as they were investigating a traffic stop had been interviewed about his guns in 2021 after the FBI received a tip, authorities said Thursday. In a statement in response to questions from The Associated Press, the FBI and Fargo Police Department said the FBI received an anonymous…
Mohamad BarakatFARGO, N.D. (AP) — The man who shot three Fargo police officers and a civilian, killing one of the officers before an officer killed him, searched the internet for terms including “explosive ammo” and “kill fast,” as well as for what crowded area events might be happening, authorities said Friday. Mohamad Barakat also used a “binary trigger” that allowed…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) – A south Fargo apartment building was evacuated Friday and multiple law enforcement agencies including U.S. Marshals, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) were on hand to search a rental unit on the building’s third floor believed to have been the suspect’s in a shooting that left one officer dead and two…
BENSON CO., N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Authorities in Benson County, North Dakota say a body has been found on the shoreline of Devils Lake. Sheriff Ethan Rode said the body was found Sunday night and it was clear from the condition of the body that it had been in the water for “quite some time.” The sheriff’s department turned the case…
Ruby slippers. (FBI)FARGO (KVRR/AP) – A federal grand jury has indicted a man in connection with the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby slippers from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Court documents says Terry Martin is charged with one count of theft of major artwork. The Associated Press reports Martin lives about 12 miles from the…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — Rapper Desiigner is charged with indecent exposure on an aircraft in Minnesota. While on a flight from Tokyo to Minneapolis, prosecutors say 25-year-old Desiigner, also known as Sidney Selby, exposed his genitals multiple times. During one of the exposures, he masturbated. When the flight landed, Selby was detained and interviewed by an FBI agent. In an online…
FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) – The FBI is investigating the owner of a number of Fargo-area businesses who court documents allege has been engaged in a years-long conspiracy to defraud the federal government. KFGO News reported a raid by federal agents last March on two West Fargo businesses – Pro-Mark Services and MDM Construction. The search warrant for that raid was unsealed…
