EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants FBI involvement nearly two weeks after a possible hate crime where a woman attacked an East Grand Forks Mosque during morning prayer. Fifty-seven-year-old Suzette Gay Thompson of Thief River Falls is arrested on an arson charge and could face up to 20 years in prison and a $20,000…
FARGO (KVRR) – The FBI has arrested an NDSU graduate student for allegedly issuing threats against employees at the university. Thirty-eight-year-old Thomas Sayward appeared in federal court Friday. He’s charged with Interstate Threatening Communications. Court documents say on June 1, NDSU Police informed the FBI that Sayward “submitted threatening language” to the university in response to a survey sent to…
Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols testify during a Senate hearing about the Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Larry Nassar investigation.DETROIT (AP) – Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing…
FARGO (KVRR) – A Florida man who’s been linked to more than 60 golf cart thefts in North Dakota and several other states has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. The FBI began investigating Nathan Rodney Nelson after the Cass County Sheriff’s Office asked for help in solving a series of golf cart thefts across the country. U.S….
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) — FBI agents searched two West Fargo contracting businesses this week, but the bureau has not said what the investigations pertain to or whether they’re connected. The FBI confirms that agents searched Pro-Mark Services on Thursday. MDM Construction was also searched. A spokesman says he cannot provide information on what agents were looking for in either…
FARGO (KVRR) – The FBI has completed its investigation of an explosion that seriously injured a New York woman during the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline Protest. An attorney for Sophia Wilansky revealed in court documents that the investigation is concluded. “The FBI has now notified (Wilansky) that it has formally ended and closed its investigation of Ms. Wilansky’s injury, ”…
FARGO (KVRR) – A Sheyenne, North Dakota man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for aggravated child sex abuse. Interim U.S. Attorney Nick Chase says 39-year-old Gary Lee “Ty” Longie was charged with Aggravated Sexual Abuse. He pleaded guilty in September, 2021. The FBI began an investigation in December, 2020, when the victim, who was under 12,…
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…
