BISMARCK, N.D (KVRR/KFGO) — North Dakota Supreme Court rejects a sentence reduction request by Michael Neugebauer. He was 15 in 1992 when he shot and killed his parents, brother and sister in their Menoken-area home, east of Bismarck. Neugebauer was sentenced to life in prison. He requested the reduction based on a 2017 law. It allows the court to reduce…
FARGO, N.D. (AP/KVRR) — A former employee at Maple View Memory Care in Fargo is sentenced to two years in prison for the death 78-year-old Gary Pearson. 60-year-old Rachel Cooper pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the August 2021 death. A criminal complaint said Cooper was cleaning Pearson’s bathroom and that the two appeared to have struggled over the door….
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — A man from Nigeria is sentenced in U.S. District Court in North Dakota for mail fraud. 37-year-old Kolawole Akande was given 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $350,000 in restitution. Akande and others got their hands on checks from a Dickinson, North Dakota company through the mail while living in Texas. The…
ST. PAUL (KVRR) — A Red Lake, Minnesota man is sentenced to 37 years in prison for the murder of Red Lake Tribal Police Officer Ryan Bialke. 30-year-old David Donnell Jr. pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree back in April. Court documents say five officers were doing a welfare check at Donnell’s home in Redby…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A Red Lake man is sentenced to 12 years in prison for a 2020 murder on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. 38-year-old Ralph Cloud Jr. pleaded guilty back in July to killing his cousin, Allen Smith. Court documents say Cloud was concerned about a relationship between his wife and Smith. He walked several miles to Smith’s home…
Kurt Groszhans (right) with Sen. Kevin CramerBISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Life is returning to normal for a southern North Dakota farmer who was jailed in Ukraine for almost a year. Sen. Kevin Cramer said he had lunch in Bismarck with Kurt Groszhans of Ashley and his sisters. Groszhans returned to the state late last month. He was accused in a…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo man is sentenced to 13 years in prison for attempted murder, aggravated assault and theft. Tyler Mollner changed his pleas to guilty back in August. He was charged after stabbing his wife while she was sleeping in the passenger side of their van in February. She jumped out of the moving van on 42nd…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KVRR) — The owner of a former bar in St. Cloud has been sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for arson. Andrew Welsh intentionally set fire to The Press Bar and Parlor as part of a scheme to obtain insurance money. The 43-year-old man, of St. Joseph, was given 71 months in prison followed by…
MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis police officer Mohammed Noor is scheduled for release on Monday. Noor shot and killed Justine Damond five years ago after she called 911 to report a possible rape. Noor was initially sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison after third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter convictions. The state’s Supreme Court reversed the third-degree murder conviction and he…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP/KVRR) — A judge has refused to reduce the life sentence for a North Dakota man who was a teen when he fatally shot his parents, brother and sister in 1992. South Central District Judge Bobbi Weiler said in a 22-page order filed Wednesday that a law regarding sentence reductions went into effect after Michael Neugebauer’s sentence was…
