DILWORTH, Minn. (KFGO) – Dilworth residents will get a chance to meet the two finalists for the city’s new police chief next Monday. Dilworth police investigator and acting chief Hunter Rawson, and Lt. Justin Carloni from Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be at the Roasted Rail Coffee House at 205 15th Street NE in Dilworth. Rawson will be available from 3 –…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A Red Lake, Minnesota man is sentenced to over 6 years in prison for the sexual abuse of a minor. According to court documents, 63-year-old Ronald Pearson was visiting a home on Red Lake Indian Reservation in August 2022 when the abuse occurred. He pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court last September to one count of sexual…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A man who threatened a shooting at Heritage Middle School in Horace changes his plea to guilty to terrorizing. 35-year-old James Donnelly was sentenced earlier this month to five years in prison. Local authorities were tipped off by the FBI about Donnelly, who has no permanent address. He was arrested at a Fargo hotel two days…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fans of true crime and the fiction inspired by it have a new event to attend: Fargo Crime-Con. It’s brought to us by the same people behind ValleyCon and Fargo Moorhead Comic Con. The first crime-con is scheduled for February 10-11 at Ramada in Fargo. Wetterling Foundation and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women representatives are already…
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…
