UPDATE: Crash Victim in Grand Forks Linked to Theft Investigation

GRAND FORKS, ND (trfnews.i234.me) A Monday morning rollover crash victim was also a theft suspect.
we have an update on this uh injury rollover crash in grand forks on this monday morning uh the person injured was a suspect in a theft case this now in from sergeant dvorak at the grand forks police department at 8 28 am they were dispatched to the 1800 block at gateway drive on a report of a mere motor vehicle accident involving a rollover officers located at 2012 ford focus on the south side of gateway drive partially on the roadway and on the berm the vehicle was on his passenger side and the driver was still inside grand forks fire responded and had to remove the front windshield of the vehicle in order to get the driver out the driver was then transported by ambulance to altru there were no other occupants in the vehicle and only one vehicle was involved the driver was identified as a raymond a dolezelek age 69 of grand forks investigation of the accident determined that the leslie was driving the ford focus eastbound on gateway drive and just before rear ending another vehicle that was eastbound on the gateway the ford focus went up on the berm struck a pile of snow and rolled onto its side the leslik was arrested for driving under the influence he was also issued a citation for care required regarding the accident now just prior to the accident officers of the police department were dispatched to happy harry’s on gateway drive for a theft complaint that had just occurred witnesses on the scene gave a license plate description of the suspect vehicle and said the vehicle was last seen traveling eastbound on gateway drive further investigation identified the suspect in the theft as raymond de leslie and he was issued a citation for theft of property eastbound traffic and gateway drive was rerouted for approximately two hours grand forks police collision analysis and reconstruction team along with the northeast regional uas team were activated to assist in the investigation the grand forks police department would like to take this time to remind everyone to not drink and drive and always wear their seat belts i’m Neil Berg reporting for trfnews.i234.me