Curtis BrovoldMOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – A man who fled to Mexico after he failed to appear in court on sex crime charges more than two decades ago in Moorhead will be allowed to post bond. Curtis Brovold is accused of luring a 14-year-old girl by computer and having sex with her at a Moorhead motel. Judge Galen Vaa on Friday…
BISMARCK, N.D. – Two men have been indicted for murder in connection with a fatal beating on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. An FBI affidavit alleges Edward Finley and Kenneth Grady, both 30, caused the death of 38-year-old Valentino White Jr. by punching and kicking him in an October attack at a New Town mobile home. The affidavit says White…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) – The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance regarding the disappearance and presumed death of Steven Roger Longie. Longie was last seen around the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in late October, 2020. The FBI says there are “investigative reasons to believe that foul play contributed to the disappearance and presumed death of Longie.” They are offering a reward…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Authorities respond to a bomb threat report at Hector International Airport. The call came in shortly before 9 a.m. Fargo Police officers worked with FBI, TSA and Airport Authority members as they investigated the threat. A K-9 unit was brought in to sweep the airport but did not come up with anything in the search. Officers…
FARGO (KVRR) – The FBI is investigating an assault in Fargo in which a man is accused of striking and choking an 11-year-old girl during a confrontation in September. According to a memo to Fargo Police Chief David Zibolski, federal investigators are examining the complaint against 73-year-old Larry Baldner. The memo says the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office are…
UPDATE – Twenty-eight-year-old David Donnell, Junior has been charged with one count of second degree murder and four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in the shooting death of Red Lake Tribal Police Officer Ryan Bialke. The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota says five officers were doing a welfare check at Donnell’s home in Redby…
FARGO, N.D. — Court records are providing new details on a bank robbery earlier this week in Wyndmere, North Dakota. Tessa Jaksa, also known as Tony Jaksa, is charged in U.S. District Court in Fargo with bank robbery. An arraignment is set for Friday morning at 10. The transgender woman admitted to FBI agents that quote, “I knew I messed…
PENNINGTON CO., Minn. — People in Pennington County, Minnesota are being asked to check their property for any sign of homicide suspect Eric Reinbold. The 44-year-old man is wanted for the July 9th murder of his wife, Lissette Reinbold of Oklee. Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Lissette died of homicidal violence. Reinbold is also wanted for violating the…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR/KFGO) – A federal judge has sentenced a White Earth, Minn. man to 17 years in prison for sexually abusing a minor over several months in 2018. Thirty-three-year-old Evan Oppegard also admitted to sending sexually explicit messages and soliciting the minor through social media. It happened on the White Earth Reservation. White Earth police, the Mahnomen County Sheriff’s office…
FARGO (KVRR) – The FBI’s Minneapolis field office is asking for the public’s help in locating people who may have purchased a stolen golf cart from a man connected to a multi-state theft investigation. As KVRR first reported Friday, the FBI has linked Nathan Rodney Nelson to at least 63 golf cart thefts in seven states since 2017. Nelson is…
