FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — “I’m going to start crying again.” As word was just starting to get around about their brother’s upcoming release from prison, Sheila Peltier was on the phone with her sister in Fargo. “Never been so happy in my whole life you know because my brothers, my big brothers, coming home,” said, Betty Ann Peltier Solano. Leonard…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Grand Forks man is sentenced in federal court for possession of stolen firearms and assaulting a federal agent. The judge gave 45-year-old Michael Otto 13 years in federal prison. He’ll have to pay restitution for damaged vehicles totaling over $2,700. Two stolen firearms were found in Otto’s vehicle after a high speed chase in September…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo man indicted on a federal charge after pulling a gun on a police officer is sentenced to over four years in federal prison. 40-year-old Shawn Larkin was charged with felon in possession of a firearm. Police say Larkin was pulled over in September 2020 for a suspended license and an open warrant. During a…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — A Montana woman is sentenced in North Dakota for draining her in-laws life savings. Fifty-seven-year-old Carol Feist of Whitehall was given over 5 years in federal prison and will have to repay $134,000 for committing bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors say Feist pretended to be her elderly mother-in-law when she called U.S. Bank in…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) — A Williston man is sentenced to serve a year in federal prison for threatening employees at the Fargo VA Health Care System. 41-year-old Curtis Moran was arrested last June after he made several threatening phone calls. Moran first called the White House Veteran’s Affairs Call Center and stated that he was going to kill his doctor….
CJ CarruthersFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — CJ Carruthers of Fargo is sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for a drug robbery gone bad in West Fargo that resulted in a six-year-old boy being shot in the head. Authorities say last March, Carruthers and Germond Johnson Jr. were robbing an alleged drug dealer when Carruthers fired his gun. The dealer fired…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) – Federal prosecutors say two men have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution ring in western Minn. Thirty-five-year-old Jonathan Listrom of Circle Pines and 53-year-old Steven Johnson of Glenwood sold meth in the Alexandria area. Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk says Listrom was sentenced to 16 years in prison followed…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – A Carson, N.D. man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for possessing child pornography and impersonating a federal officer. U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley says 41-year-old Robert James Zeller was also ordered to serve 5 years of supervised release. Wrigley says in 2018, while Zeller was on supervised release for committing a prior sex offense,…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A Grand Forks man has been given nine years in federal prison for possessing child porn. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Peter Welte sentenced 28-year-old Nicholas Bartholome to 10 years supervised release following that sentence. Bartholome was also ordered to pay $200 in special assessments to the Crime Victims’ Fund. Between August 2017 and May 2018,…
ST. PAUL, Minn.–A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for producing and distributing child pornography. Thirty-seven-year-old Nicholas Campbell, of Otsego, was also given 25 years of supervised released during sentencing last week in federal court in St. Paul. Prosecutors say FBI agents seized a large volume of electronic evidence from Campbell’s home showing that he…
