{"id":44911,"date":"2026-08-25T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=44911"},"modified":"2026-08-21T04:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:46:32","slug":"thief-river-falls-kyle-belgarde-held-on-stalking-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/thief-river-falls-kyle-belgarde-held-on-stalking-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief River Falls: Kyle Belgarde Held on Stalking Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thief River Falls<\/strong> (trfnews.i234.me<\/a>) \u2014 Kyle Belgarde was listed in custody at the Pennington County Jail on August 17, 2026.<\/p>\n

The jail record lists Belgarde on a hold connected to a felony stalking charge.<\/p>\n

The listed charge is \u201cStalking – Engages in Stalking\u201d under Minnesota Statute 609.749.5(a).<\/p>\n

Felony stalking charge listed<\/h2>\n

The custody record identifies the case number as 82CR255349.<\/p>\n

District Court is listed as the court branch for the case.<\/p>\n

No court date appeared in the booking information provided for the listing.<\/p>\n

The jail record also showed a bail or fine amount of $0.00.<\/p>\n

That figure reflects the amount displayed on the custody record at the time of the listing.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/a>Kyle Belgarde booking image. Pennington County Jail.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The listing does not provide details about the events that led to the charge.<\/p>\n

It also does not identify an alleged victim or describe the claimed conduct.<\/p>\n

What Minnesota law says<\/h2>\n

Minnesota Statute 609.749<\/a> covers harassment and stalking offenses.<\/p>\n

Subdivision 5 addresses stalking involving a single victim or members of one household.<\/p>\n

The law classifies the offense described in subdivision 5(a) as a felony.<\/p>\n

State law allows a sentence of up to ten years after a conviction.<\/p>\n

The law also allows a fine of up to $20,000 after a conviction.<\/p>\n

Those are statutory maximum penalties and do not mean Belgarde will receive those penalties.<\/p>\n

Custody information<\/h2>\n

Pennington County Corrections is located at 102 1st Street West in Thief River Falls.<\/p>\n

Readers can visit the Pennington County Sheriff\u2019s Office jail page<\/a> for custody information.<\/p>\n

Jail listings can change as cases move through the court system.<\/p>\n

Charges may also be changed, dismissed, or resolved through later court action.<\/p>\n

Belgarde is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.<\/p>\n

TRF News will continue following publicly available court information connected to the case.<\/p>\n

I’m Adrian Cole reporting for TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 TRF News. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle Belgarde was booked into the Pennington County Jail on Aug. 17, 2026, on a felony stalking charge, according to custody records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44912,"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":[16518],"tags":[3769,23521,955,14674,12696,7181,778],"class_list":["post-44911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recently-booked","tag-felony-stalking","tag-kyle-belgarde","tag-minnesota-crime-news","tag-pennington-county-court","tag-pennington-county-jail","tag-stalking-charge","tag-thief-river-falls","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44911","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=44911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44913,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44911\/revisions\/44913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}