JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — A motorcycle rider is jailed in Jamestown after fleeing a traffic stop and hitting 115 miles per hour on I-94 before turning and crashing on a gravel road. 30-year-old Auston Peterson of Jamestown was checked out at the hospital and then booked into jail. The chase started when a Jamestown Police officer tried to stop Peterson…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — Police in Jamestown have given the all clear after a bomb threat was called in to Walmart around 10 a.m. The store was evacuated and closed for about 70 minutes and area schools were placed on lockdown during the investigation. Numerous law enforcement agencies responded to search the interior and exterior of the store. They say…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — Police in Jamestown are investigating a shooting incident at a hotel. They responded to a report of bullet holes in the window of the hotel on Tuesday. The investigation revealed that a handgun was believed to have been fired from inside the room through the window into the parking lot. Spent casings were located in the…
Courtesy: NewsDakota(UPDATE) 30-year-old Jacob Schmitt of Jamestown was arrested on suspicion of terrorizing. Formal charges are pending. JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — A man has been arrested after barricading himself and a two-year-old child in a home in Jamestown for 10 hours. Police say they responded to a domestic violence incident in Western Park Village around 2 a.m. They say the…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — Early Tuesday morning, officers were called to Fred’s Den on a report of a man armed with a gun and a knife. Police ordered the man to put his weapons down but he refused. They shot the man and he was taken to Jamestown Regional Medical Center, where he was declared dead. “Anytime there’s a loss…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating an officer-involved shooting that left a man dead in Jamestown early Tuesday morning. Jamestown Police say officers were called for a report of a man with a gun and knife in the parking lot of a bar. The 9-1-1 caller said the man got into a fight…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — Jamestown police respond to a terrorizing incident at Leapaldt Park just before 6:00 this evening. It happened in the 1500 block of 9th Avenue Northeast Police say an intoxicated Native American man came up to two men and two juveniles and told them to leave. He then fired at least two rounds from a handgun into…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – A teenage girl who had been reported as a possible runaway is back home and safe after an extensive investigation and the arrest of a high-risk sex offender by Jamestown police. Jamestown police were contacted last Saturday by a family member of the girl who was reported missing from a western North Dakota community. The caller…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — An unruly and resistant student at Jamestown High School is escorted out of the building by police. It happened around 8:45 this morning. Police say the school resource officer was called to a classroom to deal with the unruly student. The student struggled with the SRO and staff members so the teacher called 911 to get…
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KFGO) – Jamestown Police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened early Saturday. According to the Police Department, officers were called to an apartment in the 300 block of 5th Avenue NE at 12:48 a.m. where they found a man dead. Two men who were at the apartment at the time of the shooting told officers the man…
