FARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – Another defendant has been sentenced for his role in a brutal assault in downtown Fargo last year that left two men severely injured. John Hernandez was found guilty of two counts of aggravated assault and one count of accomplice to aggravated assault for the beating. One of the victims suffered broken bones in his face. A judge…
Troy Mitteness (Dakota County Jail)HASTINGS, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Burnsville man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of his 82-year-old mother. Last week, Troy Mitteness was found guilty of premeditated first-degree murder and intentional second-degree murder in the killing of his mother, Sandra, in June of 2022. He told investigators that…
Former Cass County Deputy Darin VikenFARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A former Cass County Sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced after pleading guilty to six misdemeanors for what prosecutors say was harassing conduct toward women enrolled in the court-ordered 24-7 program. Darin Viken, 63, of Fargo, the former coordinator of the program, was fired more than a year ago. He was charged in…
Tyreik Taylor-Roberts (Cass County Jail photo)FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A Fargo man has been sentenced for shooting and killing another man. Tyreik Taylor-Roberts was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter. A murder charge was dropped. Last September, Taylor-Roberts 25-year-old Jalab Moses got into an argument in an apartment complex parking lot south of NDSU. Taylor-Roberts…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the death of a woman last June. Randall Duffy, 62, appeared in Cass County court after pleading guilty in January to killing 59-year-old Jody Campbell. Campbell was a well-known server at Blackbird Woodfire in downtown Fargo. On June 8th 2024, Duffy called police and…
Isaac Teegarden (photo: Cass County jail)FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A Fargo man who fled from West Fargo Police at high speed last summer will spend 28 days in jail. Last June, an officer tried to make a traffic stop after seeing Isaac Teegarden quickly accelerate and screech the tires of his vehicle on Main Avenue. Teegarden drove away from the officer at…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (North Dakota Monitor) — A Canadian man who pleaded guilty last fall to shooting at energy facilities in North Dakota and South Dakota was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison. Cameron Monte Smith, 50, also was ordered to pay more than $2 million in restitution after being convicted in U.S. District Court of two counts of destruction of…
David CorneliusenROSEAU, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A 65-year-old Warroad man has been sentenced to more than 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife. David Corneliusen shot 65-year-old Mary Corneliusen in their home near Warroad on August 23, 2023. She was shot with a handgun during an argument. Corneliusen entered a Norgaard…
Douglas James Swenson II (Clay County Correctional Center)MOORHEAD (KVRR-KFGO) – A Moorhead man has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for the stabbing death of his half-brother in March of last year. Douglas Swenson entered an Alford plea, acknowledging that there would be enough evidence to convict him. The body of Dustin Momerak, 29, was found in an apartment…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A woman from the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in northern North Dakota will spend just over four years in federal prison for child abuse, assault with a dangerous weapon, and malicious mischief. The US Justice Department says 42-year-old Rhawnie Marcellais of Belcourt injured her daughter by throwing an empty beer bottle at the girl and hitting her…
