MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five people were charged on Wednesday for trying to bribe a juror in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases with a bag of $120,000 in cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI announced Wednesday. The bribe attempt, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson previously called “an attack on our criminal justice system,” brought…
Leonard PeltierA parole hearing was held in Florida for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier. A decision is expected within 21 days. Peltier has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota. At 79, his health is failing, and if this parole request is denied, it might be a…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum is being vetted as a potential running mate for former President Donald Trump. Former North Dakota Governor Ed Schafer is very familiar with the vetting process, having gone through it before becoming Secretary of Agriculture under President George W. Bush. “It’s every single thing that you’ve done in your life back…
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)DETROIT (KVRR) – The U.S. Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement Tuesday with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Larry Nassar in 2015 and 2016, a critical time gap that allowed the sports doctor to continue to prey on victims before his arrest. When combined with other…
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The chairwoman of the Spirit Lake Tribe says a manhunt in northeast North Dakota is over. Lonna Street says Kolby McKay is in custody after willingly turning himself in to Fort Totten Police. The search for McKay by the FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs began last week. He was considered possibly armed and dangerous….
Jerry Hal Saliterman, of Crystal, Minn., is wheeled out of U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., Friday, March 15, 2024, after he made his initial appearance on charges connected to the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.” The FBI recovered the slippers in 2018. Another man charged in the…
(KVRR/KFGO) — Two people are dead after a structure fire on Red Lake Reservation. Red Lake Police, Red Lake Fire Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives , and the FBI responded to the structure fire. Details behind the deadly fire are still being investigated. Red Lake Department of Public Safety did release a statement assuring the safety and…
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…
