MINNESOTA & NORTH DAKOTA (trfnews.i234.me, trfnews.i234.me, trfnews.i234.me) A look at some of the top news stories from across Minnesota and North Dakota over the past week.
we have an update on what was initially reported as a stabbing behind of hugo’s off south columbia road in grand forks at uh 6 23 p.m saturday all to station three can you respond to hugo’s on south columbia who goes 1315 south columbia for an adult male who’s been stabbed he’s bleeding and stumbling around outside law enforcement is not yet on scene now i talked with sergeant brown of the grand forks police department who says this was a non-life-threatening self-inflicted wound out behind the grocery store here on 13th avenue south uh the subject was checked out since this is a medical issue no the subject will not be identified but again it was a self-inflicted non-life-threatening wound here’s a look at the latest statistics regarding covet and north dakota long-term care facilities across eastern north dakota golden acres manor in foster counter carrington a 64-bed facility with 28 residents and 28 staff members now infected woodwood manor in cavalier 40 bed facilities 16 residents four staff infected eventide in devils lake 82 bed facility 14 residents 10 staff members infected edgewood and fargo 153 bed facility 12 residents four staff members the meadows in fargo 110 bed facility 13 residents nine staff members infected maple view memory care in grand forks 36 bed facility with 25 residents infected and seven staff members of a maria in jamestown a 100 bed facility 20 residents and 18 staff members infected even tied in jamestown 115 bed facility with 16 residents and 13 staff members infected in valley city bridgeview estates 44 bed facility 14 residents six staff members and cheyenne care center in valley city 170 bed facility 28 uh residents and 28 staff members infected and finally the benedictine living center saint catherine’s in wapadan 52-bed facility with 11 residents and eight staff members infected and even taj chan crossings in west fargo 64-bit facility with 12 residents and five staff members infected again that was a look at long-term care facilities across eastern north dakota with the double digit infections statewide a total number of residents of 555 cases and in staff members of 570 cases according to the most recent data here’s a sobering look at death statistics across north dakota and minnesota and where they stand on this saturday evening north dakota has a population of 762 069 minnesota’s population five million six hundred forty thousand as of this saturday there have now been eight hundred thirty four deaths in north dakota three thousand two hundred one deaths in minnesota you divide that out north dakota residents now one out of every 913 people in north dakota have died from covid in minnesota one out of every 1762 residents has died from covid this was a scene in the parking lot of altru hospital in grand forks last night dozens of people got together to pray for uh fifth grade teacher tim rigg of grand forks who’s now hospitalized in critical condition on a ventilator suffering from a covet infection the event was organized by a friend josh jones this is an event our dear friend tim rigg is in the hospital right now he is uh they have him sedated he is on uh ventilator and he’s got uh covert related pneumonia and this was an opportunity for us to get together and lift the community up and all the workers and everybody and all true now here’s the latest on tim rigg’s condition on this saturday afternoon uh from a facebook post by his wife stacy kay saying uh tim’s condition is uh still extremely critical uh stacy uh says here are some specifics to pray for and things to pray for uh protection against overall the triggered inflammation injury to his body will end and allow for recovery for his immune system to function properly and effectively for his lungs to be free of inflict infection and inflammation to allow oxygen into the blood and pray against vascular complications some present patients are developing large clots which can backflow and break off and block flow to downstream organs in the heart please pray against any weakening of his heart’s function and pray that he can re receive nutrition and pray against blood clots in the vessels to his gut kidneys pray for good function and protection from clots brain pray for peace for good sedation effect for relief from any pain uh again that’s from his wife stacy k is tim rigg a fifth grade teacher in grand forks in critical condition at altru uh battling covet um a facebook or gofundme page has been set up just search for tim rigg if you’d like to help the family out with expenses 19 year old florin cross dog of grand forks is facing felony charges of robbery and burglary a second male suspect in the case has not been charged yet according to court documents on thursday at 9 14 p.m grand forks police were attached to an apartment on a report of a robbery in progress a female victim stated her ex-boyfriend who has not been charged yet broke into her apartment grabbed her by the jaw and hit her multiple times in the face that’s when another man at the apartment stepped in to help trying to force the suspect out of the apartment then crossdog allegedly came into the apartment wielding a knife and cut the man who was trying to help above the eye crossdog and the other suspect fled and crossdog was arrested later at 820 north sixth street police stated that cross dog admitted to allegedly going to the apartment to roll the female suspect for cash and marijuana the 29 year old devin wilson of saint paul is in the stearns county jail in saint cloud facing a string of charges after allegedly assaulting a state trooper on a thursday the minnesota state patrol says wilson was arrested without incident at around 6 30 p.m thursday evening near sagatagon lake on the campus of saint john’s university a manhunt for him began just after 7 30 thursday morning when wilson assaulted a state patrol trooper during a traffic stop a dwi investigation on i-94 near freeport after a vehicle pursuit wilson fled on foot near saint john’s university in saint joseph the state patrol trooper who was assaulted suffered multiple fracture to his jaw which required a surgery in on friday no force was used when wilson was taken into custody uh here’s a state trooper to talk more about the incident thursday morning on interstate 94 near freeport minnesota one of our state troopers made a traffic stop just like state troopers do every single day on our roads that traffic stop changed quickly when the impaired driver for no apparent reason attacked our state trooper and ultimately assaulted him the driver then fled both in his vehicle and then on foot and after a long day of searching involving many law enforcement agencies thankfully this dangerous person was taken into custody i’d like to particularly thank the stearns county sheriff’s office the bureau of criminal apprehension the department of corrections the many minnesota state patrol troopers and the other law enforcement agencies who spent all day searching to safely bring this person into custody i’d also like to take a minute to mention that this is a reminder of just how dangerous this profession can be and while the vast majority almost all traffic stops happen without any altercation at all this one turned and it turned very quickly and i’m thankful that the end result wasn’t worse for our trooper we anticipate that he’ll make a full recovery after healing from the injuries that he sustained i’m thankful for his courage his dedication his poise and his ability to maintain his composure throughout this incident thank you to everyone who supports the men and women of the minnesota state patrol we have an update regarding a police pursuit involving und and grand forks police thursday afternoon the story that only eye news brought you 22 year old christian evans of grand forks is now facing two felony charges of reckless endangerment and preventing arrest after an officer uh wound up using a taser to control him during his arrest evans is also facing three misdemeanor charges of refusal to halt reckless driving and driving under suspension according to court documents it all started just after three o’clock thursday afternoon when a und officer tried to pull him over on a traffic stop and he fled the evans allegedly then stopped the vehicle and fled on foot as grand forks officers set up a perimeter and a k-9 tracking dog was brought in and officers found evans hiding in a small shed near university park evans then allegedly took off running again jumping fences and finally being arrested which included being tased the officer stated in the report that evans has a prior conviction of fleeing with skyrocketing coveted numbers in the state north dakota governor doug burgum today uh brought in doctors to lobby for everyone to wear mass and use social distancing but we are in record territory for the wrong reasons we’ve reported over 25 000 new positive cases so far this month in november that’s more than the record we set in the month of october of 22 810 and we still have 10 days left uh in november this incredible increase in cases uh is pushing pressure on our hospitalization we know that cases drive hospitalizations during these big gatherings thanksgiving we need to be smart we need to be thoughtful we need to not have the huge gatherings where uh all of us can get infected i have a 99 year old patient in the nursing home who did very well and i’ve seen young healthy people without any comorbid conditions be devastated or even uh killed from the disease uh in our hospital in the last two weeks we’ve had three members from the same family that have passed away from coven something to think about as we all move closer to our thanksgiving holiday we have an update regarding an early friday morning shooting at 1109 second avenue south in fargo this from fargo police quote this morning the information officers had prior to arriving on the scene was the shooter was still inside the house and the victim was laying on the sidewalk when officers arrived the caller was outside the suspect’s address waiting for officers to come assist the caller told officers the shooter was in the upstairs apartment and the victim was lying on the sidewalk by the house with a gunshot wound officers eventually made contact with logan aren’s 24 years old to fargo irens came out of the house walked down to officers and surrendered after further investigation lorenz was arrested for aggravated assault and burglary the charges will be reviewed by the state’s attorney’s office and may be amended if deemed appropriate a renz and the victim knew each other at the time of this release the victim is alive and being treated at a local hospital it’s an ongoing investigation that from fargo police the wife and adult son of twin city area man who disappeared in 2013 have now been charged in his death 62 year old connie herbst and 26 year old austin herbs were arrested thursday near their new prague home the death of gary herbst a dog found his skull south of barren wisconsin in december of 2017 and brought it home to its owner marin county sheriff’s deputies found her skeletal remains soon after those remains were finally identified this past june and investigators began gathering evidence that led to the charges a minnesota man has pleaded guilty to helping set fire to a minneapolis police station during civil unrest in the days following the death of george floyd 26 year old bryce michael williams pleaded guilty thursday to one one count of conspiracy to commit arson according to the indictment he and several others breached a fence around the station on may 28th and williams helped light a molotov cocktail which another man carried into the building to start off the fire the burning of the precinct and dozens of other buildings led to the governor to call on the national guard to stop the unrest sarah red owl of kyle south dakota is facing felony charges in jamestown after allegedly stealing a lincoln and taking it for a spin to the bar in nearby ypsilanti according to court documents on tuesday afternoon a man reported his 2008 lincoln had been stolen from his garage in jamestown a couple of hours later a deputy spotted the car by ypsilanti and a red owl and another man inside the ypsilanti bar and said they looked out of place red al wound up being arrested and according to court documents told the deputy that they’d been left in jamestown without enough warm clothes no cell service no money or food it was her idea to take the car when she discovered it running in the garage after being cold hungry and wanting to get to fargo well she’s now been charged with felonies of burglary and unauthorized use of a vehicle and then this news more than 900 staff members at the mayo clinic health system have been diagnosed with covid19 over the last two weeks dr amy williams is executive dean of mayo clinic practice she said this week that number accounts for 30 percent of all staff that have contracted covid19 since the pandemic began and she said 93 percent of the sickened staff were exposed in the community not at work she says that just shows how widespread the virus is the health system has midwest locations in minnesota wisconsin and iowa but didn’t specify where the affected employees were located prosecutors in the upcoming trial of a former minneapolis police officer charged with killing george floyd want to introduce evidence of a 2017 arrest in which they say the officer held his knee on the back of the 14 year old boy and ignored his pleas that he couldn’t breathe prosecutors say body camera video that captured the boy’s arrest shows that derek chauvin asked uses uses unreasonable force when dealing with a suspect who doesn’t immediately comply with his orders chauvin’s attorney argues that the force used was in keeping a former department policy uh floyd a black man who was handcuffed well passed away this summer Neil Berg here on the phone with me is lieutenant derek zimmer the grand forks police department you guys kind of started a new way of allocating officers called powershift or what’s that all about well on an annual basis we we generally take a department wide review and and consider calls for service officer time the the number of officers that we have available and and how are we best uh allocating those officers to uh be the most efficient and effective agency we can be and we have noticed an increase in calls for service uh during the afternoon and early evening hours and those are times that only one shift is typically on duty so we decided to try adding a fourth shift this year uh and the shift uh overlaps our day shift and our evening shift and so provides a few extra officers during those times when call density is increased uh provides some overlap when we’re doing shift change to ensure that we’ve got officers out on the street answering calls for service and we figured we’d uh give this a try for a year and and see how how it works so so i mean it’s just like usually later in the afternoon more car crashes people coming out of work and after they get home well when you think about the the afternoon and evening hours it’s um towards the end of the school day and when school is letting out it’s towards the end of a lot of work days um the evening hours are when people get home from work and out shopping so there’s going to be increased traffic density so increased crashes uh we might have an increase in calls for service juvenile related and things of that nature so it was just something that that we saw that our officers were awful busy during those times and this is a way that that we took a an officer or two off of each shift and put them towards this this overlapping shift to see if we can’t relieve some of that pressure and and put the most officers out there where they can do the most good okay so so basically during that time what there’s around four more officers out on the street well it depends on who’s taking a day off and whatnot but at least a couple more officers out there uh during those times that we noticed are a little busier than average to see if we can alleviate some of that pressure two separate fires in the baudette area this week the williams fire department was called to assist warroad at a mobile home fire near roosevelt that occurred around 10 pm thursday november 12th according to a gofundme page started by a family member the mobile home was the residence of holly erickson and bugsy chandler while erickson chandler safely escaped the fire several pets did not the mobile home and all its contents were destroyed in the fire then on sunday afternoon around 1 16 p.m the baudette fire department was called to a fire on the uh birchview drive north of uh baudette the blaze consumed a 40 by 60 foot quonset uh owned by richard grant the contents of the quonset were also destroyed and included a motor home a four-wheeler and multiple uh tools among other items no one was injured in this fire which was determined to be accidental in nature the williams fire department lake of the woods ambulance and lake of the woods the sheriff’s office also responded to the scene let’s talk with brett burkholder of the grand forks county jail the administrator who says they now have 88 of their 195 inmates who have tested positive for covet uh burkholder says they’ve had meetings today with the department of corrections and many other fish officials across the state uh but there’s little they can do to stop it inside the facility the smallest cells are two person cells or larger and then there’s a dormitory with 36 beds so uh he says basically there’s no way to keep everyone apart and so kovit is kind of running rampant there um burkholder said he’s been talking with many officials and he’s been told that he’s following the guidelines that are in place but at this point he says there are so many people that are asymptomatic when they bring them in there there’s no way to know if they’re positive or not he says they’re testing every week but again there’s no way to basically keep everyone apart in the facility 21 year old elatio attorney of bemidji has been charged with felony domestic assault according to court documents on november 13th at 7 29 pm bemidji police responded to the pine ridge apartments for a report of a domestic assault the female victim reported tourney allegedly struck her in the face repeatedly choked her and wrestled her to the ground attorney has previous assault and terroristic threat convictions two men who stated they just got off the bus from florida to bemidji no booking photos available have now been charged with burglary diego zamora of darrell florida has been charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor false name or id card to peace officer and gabriel martinez of miami has been charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor fleeing on foot according to court documents on november 13 at 5 58 pm officers responded to 311a street northwest for a residential burglar alarm a second story window of the residence was broken out but nothing was missing the pair was arrested nearby trying to flee the scene a man and woman have been charged in connection to a brutal crime at nato wash minnesota 26 year old antonio avilla of manomen has been charged with felony obstructing investigation aiding an offender and 26 year old talina lightfeather of langby has been charged with felony aid and a bet attempted murder and felony assault a dangerous weapon according to court documents on november 4th at 6 56 pm officers were called to tower street in nato wash for a stabbing a woman reported hearing a knock at the door her five-year-old son opened the door and was punched in the face as the woman ran toward her son she was attacked by the man and woman the woman allegedly held a handgun to her neck and made a comment about having sex with her man then the woman’s victim 18 year old son came to help and was stabbed multiple times the male suspect was heard yelling to the female suspect got him got him the male and female suspects then fled the area in a vehicle the stabbing victim had to be life flighted for emergency surgery with the perforated liver and damage to his gallbladder an investigation led to the suspects in their arrest the next day they’ve denied any involvement 31 year old abdon sanchez jr has been charged with felonies of possession with intent to manufacture deliver meth and possession of drug paraphernalia along with a misdemeanor charge of actual physical control in grand forks district court according to court records today at 1 4 a.m he was found slumped over the wheel in his vehicle on highway 81 by grand forks an ambulance was called because sanchez said he felt dizzy he produced a bag of marijuana in the ambulance which led to a search of his vehicle and the seizure of 141 grams of meth we now have details behind a bizarre and dangerous incident at und housing in early october 21 year old ernest lee jr of grand forks is now facing seven felony charges for allegedly assaulting und police officers severely burning himself and being hospitalized we begin with my october third report from the scene just after it happened Neil Berg here with some breaking news out of grand forks early on a saturday morning we’ve had a man injured in a fire incident this is on the 3900 block of university avenue fire crews were called just after midnight altru station 2 altru station 2. can you respond to 3904 university avenue 3904 university avenue there’s an active fire fire page at all stations we need you emergently 3904 university avenue a male subject may have set himself on fire now as of this monday evening november 16th ernest lee jr has not been booked into jail yet no booking photo it’s not clear yet if he’s still hospitalized but according to the criminal complaint on october third at 12 16 a.m und officers arrived on the scene at 3904 university avenue for a possible domestic violence incident in progress officers observed two females frantically running out of the apartment building it was later discovered that they ran out of an apartment next door because they were in fear for their life of what was happening in the next door apartment officers approached the door of the apartment where they could hear a lot of yelling and things being broken another officer arrived on the scene and stated that exterior windows were being broken out and they needed to make entry officers keyed into the apartment because they thought someone’s life may be in danger as officers opened the door they observed a fire that was on the stove top as well as a fire in the oven officers could hear a yale male yelling and screaming the male was later identified as ernest lee jr he was nude and irate there were multiple objects that were being broken and blood covering the apartment multiple commands were given for lee to come out with his hands up lee did not comply uh lee charged the officers with a chair and threw it uh but they stepped out of the way lee then threw himself on the flame of the stove top and he caught himself on fire and burned himself an officer grabbed lee off the fire and lee charged off another officer after a successful taser deployment an officer attempted to place lee in handcuffs but he shoved the officer out of the way and charged another officer that officer deployed another taser and it was unsuccessful another officer uh kicked lee and lee fled fail fell to the ground officers then attempted to detain lee again but he broke free and continued running down the hallway another successful taser deployment and officers were able to get lee under control and arrest him again that was from the criminal complaint of allegedly what happened here on october 3rd as of today november 16th ernest lee jr has been charged with seven felonies involving criminal mischief assaulting police officers preventing arrest and endangering by fire he’s scheduled to make his first court appearance on december 9th i’m Neil Berg reporting for trfnews.i234.me
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