Diana E. Murphy federal courthouse is shown in Minneapolis Friday, May 17, 2024.ST. PAUL, Minn. (Minnesota Reformer) — Aimee Bock, convicted for leading a $242 million pandemic relief fraud scheme known as Feeding Our Future, has been sentenced to more than 40 years in prison. “This was a vortex of fraud, and you were at the epicenter,” said U.S. District…
Sergio GranadosFARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – The sixth and final defendant involved in a brutal beating in downtown Fargo over two years ago has been sentenced for his role in the crime. Sergio Granados pleaded guilty to being an accomplice to aggravated assault in the April 2024 beating that left two men severely injured. Judge Scott Diamond sentenced Granados to five years…
Travis Bell (Grand Forks County Correctional Center)GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A fatal crash west of Grand Forks nearly two years ago has resulted a six-year prison sentence for a Fordville, North Dakota man. Travis Bell, 43, has been sentenced in the drunken driving collision that killed six-year-old Katarina Louthain and injured her mother on U.S. Highway 2 and airport…
Donald Bartlette and Nicholas Wride-ArnoldGRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A man convicted of beating another man to death in Grand Forks has been sentenced to ten years in prison. In August, Donald Bartlette was found guilty of manslaughter in the October 2024 death of Anthony Kiehl. He was given credit for 409 days already served in jail. Court records say Kiehl suffered…
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…
