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…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fort Totten, North Dakota man is sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for sexually abusing three girls between the ages of 9 and 15. 23-year-old Saunders Jackson-Buckles was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Fargo for aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two counts of sexual abuse of a minor. An investigaion found…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Tango Blast gang member from Mexico is sentenced to 15 years in prison for dealing drugs out of local hotels. 34-year-old Joel Quinonez appeared in U.S. District Court in Fargo for sentencing on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth, possession of firearms and reentry of removed alien. Quinonez was deported from…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A jury convicts a Fargo man of kidnapping and attempted witness tampering in U.S. District Court. 31-year-old Sharmake Abdullahi kidnapped a woman at gunpoint in October 2021 as she was driving in Fargo. Prosecutors say he forced her to drive him to a Gate City Bank location in Moorhead to get money out of an ATM….
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A Moorhead man pleads guilty to a federal charge of illegally possessing a firearm as a felon. 37-year-old Martin Torres Jr. entered the plea Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. Torres was arrested in March after attempting to flee a traffic stop and resisting arrest in Clay County. Officers found a loaded pistol in his jacket….
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A Red Lake, Minnesota man gets 7 years in prison for shooting two people on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in May 2021. 21-year-old Brennon Sayers was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court. Court documents show Sayers was arguing loudly with his girlfriend in a vehicle outside a home in Ponemah. One victim came out of his…
FARGO (KVRR) – The Internal Revenue Service is investigating a tax preparer from Houston, Texas in connection with allegedly filing fraudulent tax returns for clients in at least 15 states, most of them in North Dakota. A newly unsealed search warrant affidavit in U.S. District Court in Fargo identifies the man as Casper Akoto. The affidavit says Akoto is under…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR ) — The alleged leader of a criminal gang called the “Slither Gang” is sentenced to 25 years in prison for violent robberies. 26-year-old Abbot Aho, also known as Boogie, of Fergus Falls was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Fargo on Tuesday. Aho was sentenced on a number of charges including Continuing Criminal Enterprise, Conspiracy to…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo woman is sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for a string of violent commercial sex robberies. 20-year-old Harleigh Haugen was also given three years of supervised release in U.S. District Court for conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery. An investigation revealed Haugen and 21-year-old Jordan Kraft conspired with a group of young males…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A former North Dakota oilfield executive has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges for misleading shareholders about his company’s value, in a scheme that eventually forced it to go bankrupt and led to more than $886 million in losses. Joseph Kostelecky, of Dickinson, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count each of wire fraud and securities fraud. The…
