PEMBINA, ND (KVRR) – Officials on both sides of this US – Canada border say it is very secure at present, but they’re keen to take proactive steps to keep it that way. To that end – two new black hawk helicopters acquired by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police took to the skies on January 17th. In a news release,…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – The U.S. Border Patrol says agents stopped three separate illegal entries since July 1, two of which involved attempts to smuggle people into the U.S. from Canada. On July 1, agents detected a man walking toward the border near Lake Metigoshe. The Border Patrol obtained a description of a vehicle associated with the man from a…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Two men from Mexico were sentenced to federal prison for smuggling people across the U.S.-Canadian border into North Dakota. According to court records, 38-year-old Armando De Dios-Carrillo and 35-year-old Victor Manuel Perez-Aguilera, along with others, smuggled a group of Mexican nationals across the border in March, but were caught when the pickup they were using got…
ROSEAU CO., Minn. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection say agents stopped a “smuggling attempt” after two cars with 12 migrants unlawfully entered the U.S. at Roseau, Minnesota. The agency announced on Friday an agent at the Warroad Station was notified on September 25 that two cars had made unlawful entry. The agent located one of the vehicles at a…
BISMARCK, N.D. – A former employee of the North Dakota State Penitentiary has been accused of smuggling drugs and electronics into the prison for an inmate in exchange for money. Investigators say Matthew Taylor was working as a correctional officer last year when he received payments from a woman to deliver a cellphone, two SIM cards and a cigarette package…
CASS COUNTY, N.D. — The Cass County Jail has a new scanner that’s changing the way inmates are processed. The scanner works like an X–ray machine that’s more detailed than airport scanners, but not as detailed as a medical X–ray. It detects differences in density throughout the body, and can pick up anything either on or inside a person, not matter…
