First Court Appearance for Digi-Key Murder Suspect

THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN (trfnews.i234.me) The man charged with murder another man on the ground of Digi-Key in Thief River Falls, Minnesota made his first appearance in Court today.
Jorge Estremera remains in jail with bail set at $1.5-million. We have the details.
you know Carlson here in Thief River Falls Minnesota and this report appearance for the suspect in the murder of Stephen opdahl outside digikey Tuesday night has just ended the suspect 32-year-old Jorge Luis Benitez estromera appeared in court from the jail cell via Zoom the judge formally charged him with two counts of Murder in the second degree and one count of assault each of those two counts of murder carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison a translator was appeared also via Zoom estromira does not speak English the prosecution recommended a high bail saying that estromera is unemployed and he committed a random attack on an unknown victim and prolonged and a brutal attack and took steps to clean himself up and can seal what he had done prosecution called him a public safety risk and it’s doubtful that he’d appear for court appearances uh the judge agreed saying the court must consider a public safety risk as well as him being a Flight Risk he’s only been around Thief River for about a year and he’s unemployed the judge did appoint him a public defender because he’s unemployed it’s expected in a case like this down the road here that public defender will ask for a mental evaluation of estromira you can hear details in that attack if you’re watching itrfnews.i234.me it’s the next story we go over the full criminal complaint the judge finally set bail at 1.5 million dollars cash or bond with no conditions or 1 million dollars cash with convictions with conditions he remains in jail next court appearance set for May 22nd I’m Neil Berg reporting for itrfnews.i234.me