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…
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…
