STUTSMAN COUNTY, N.D. — Three officers involved in a chase and fatal shooting last month near Medina have been cleared. No charges will be filed against Jamestown Police Officer Logan Hord and Stutsman County Sheriff’s Deputies Daniel White and Casey Yunck. The BCI found that the officers were justified in using deadly force. 27-year-old Michael Schieffer fired at the officers…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — On Wednesday evening, officers were called to Sam’s Club on 32nd Avenue South after a report of shots fired. People in two different vehicles had met up, and an altercation broke out, but no one was hurt. Twenty–year old Devon Hricak has been arrested and charged with felony reckless endangerment. Officers conducted a search warrant on the…
WEST FARGO, N.D. — The suspect in last night’s deadly SWAT standoff in West Fargo has been identified as 32-year-old Justin Dietrich. On Monday night around 8:30, West Fargo Police tried to conduct a traffic stop on Dietrich, who they say had stolen handguns. Dietrich fled, setting off a chase. He rammed into a police car and stopped in a driveway in…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Students were kept in school this afternoon in Detroit Lakes while police dealt with a man in the backseat of a car with a revolver. Police were called around 3:15 to Food N Fuel on a report that 37-year-old James Poitra of Detroit Lakes hadn’t moved in three hours. When the officers noticed the gun they…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Police in Grand Forks used a PIT maneuver to stop a man wanted in a domestic violence investigation. Officers were searching for 51-year-old Dana Decoteau for questioning last night when he was spotted by campus police. Decoteau refused to stop and headed west on Gateway Drive where police used a PIT maneuver and forced his vehicle…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A Grand Forks Police officer was hurt during a confrontation with a suspicious male. Police were called to the Loaf ‘N Jug on Gateway Drive around 9 am Wednesday morning for a man acting strangely in the bathroom. They talked with 20–year–old Hunter Belgarde and sent him on his way. Belgarde then stepped in front of…
WEST FARGO, ND — A West Fargo man is in custody after a situation that had police on scene for more than four hours. Police blocked off the 100 block of Center Street after responding to a call regarding a welfare check. The male was the only individual inside the house and has since been detained. Police can’t confirm if there…
FARGO, ND — Police are investigating a homicide that happened early this morning. The suspect is in custody, but police are in the process of questioning a witness. Around 6:30 a.m. police were dispatched to a Holiday gas station at 10th Street and 19th Ave. North. The caller, Daniel Benjamin Habiger, said he was in an altercation that led to another…
WEST FARGO, N.D. — Police responded to a call involving a suicidal man at a West Fargo mobile home. Police arrived at 100 12th Street East just after nine this morning. A woman living at the address said that a man living with her was threatening harm to himself. The subject left the mobile home with no shots fired. Police…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Some sad news to report out of Grand Forks. K9 Reno has passed away. Reno died from a recent medical issue. The K9 was still active and working with the city of Grand Forks and with his handler Sgt. Andrew Stein. K9 Reno served the city for 9 years and people in the department say he…
