{"id":41520,"date":"2026-08-03T05:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=41520"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:35:10","slug":"thief-river-falls-man-cited-after-alleged-headbutt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/thief-river-falls-man-cited-after-alleged-headbutt\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief River Falls Man Cited After Alleged Headbutt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thief River Falls Man Cited After Alleged Headbutt<\/h2>\n<p><strong>THIEF RIVER FALLS<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\">trfnews.i234.me<\/a>) \u2014 A local man was arrested following an early morning domestic assault report.<\/p>\n<p>Police received the report at 3:03 a.m. on July 18.<\/p>\n<p>The reported incident happened in the 1000 block of Alice Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel John Boessel, 41, of Thief River Falls, was cited for domestic assault.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also arrested Boessel following the report.<\/p>\n<h2>Woman Was Allegedly Headbutted<\/h2>\n<p>According to the police report, Boessel allegedly headbutted a woman during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The report did not provide more details about what happened before the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not release information about any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s name was not released.<\/p>\n<p>Police also did not provide details about the relationship between Boessel and the woman.<\/p>\n<p>No other arrests were listed in the report.<\/p>\n<p>The brief report did not identify any witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>No weapon was mentioned in the police summary.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not describe how the incident ended.<\/p>\n<p>The summary did not say whether anyone else was present.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not release details about any medical response.<\/p>\n<h2>Case Details Remain Limited<\/h2>\n<p>The report did not list a court date for Boessel.<\/p>\n<p>It also did not state whether Boessel remained in custody after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>No information was released about possible release conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Additional case information may become available through court filings.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can review public case information through <a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.courts.state.mn.us\/CaseSearch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Court Records Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s domestic assault law is available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/cite\/609.2242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Revisor of Statutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Charge Is an Allegation<\/h2>\n<p>A citation or arrest does not mean a person has been convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Boessel is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.<\/p>\n<p>The case may be reviewed by prosecutors before any further court action.<\/p>\n<p>More details could be released if a formal complaint is filed.<\/p>\n<p>TRF News will report additional verified information when it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Adrian Cole reporting for <a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\">TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright 2026 TRF News. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41521\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41521\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Thief-River-Falls-Man-Cited-After-Alleged-Headbutt-300x169.png\" alt=\"Thief River Falls Man Cited After Alleged Headbutt\" width=\"415\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Thief-River-Falls-Man-Cited-After-Alleged-Headbutt-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Thief-River-Falls-Man-Cited-After-Alleged-Headbutt-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Thief-River-Falls-Man-Cited-After-Alleged-Headbutt-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Thief-River-Falls-Man-Cited-After-Alleged-Headbutt-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Thief-River-Falls-Man-Cited-After-Alleged-Headbutt-1568x882.png 1568w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Thief-River-Falls-Man-Cited-After-Alleged-Headbutt.png 1672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thief River Falls Man Cited After Alleged Headbutt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Thief River Falls man was arrested and cited after police received a domestic assault report on Alice Drive early July 18, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[22100,22099,955,14664,15236,14964],"class_list":["post-41520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-alice-drive-assault","tag-daniel-john-boessel","tag-minnesota-crime-news","tag-pennington-county-news","tag-thief-river-falls-arrest","tag-thief-river-falls-domestic-assault","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41522,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41520\/revisions\/41522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}