{"id":45043,"date":"2026-08-26T07:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=45043"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:24:22","slug":"crookston-john-vondal-jr-booked-on-felony-drug-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/crookston-john-vondal-jr-booked-on-felony-drug-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Crookston: John Vondal Jr. Booked on Felony Drug Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crookston: John Vondal Jr. Booked on Felony Drug Charge<\/h2>\n

Crookston<\/strong> (trfnews.i234.me<\/a>) \u2014 John Louis Vondal Jr. was recently booked on a felony controlled substance charge.<\/p>\n

The Polk County booking record lists August 20, 2026, as Vondal’s booking date.<\/p>\n

The record lists his birth date as March 31, 1983.<\/p>\n

The listed charge is third-degree controlled substance possession.<\/p>\n

The allegation involves methamphetamine or amphetamine in a protected zone.<\/p>\n

The booking entry cites Minnesota Statute 152.023, subdivision 2(a)(6).<\/p>\n

Charge Involves Protected Zone<\/h2>\n

Minnesota law covers several third-degree controlled substance offenses.<\/p>\n

The cited provision involves possession of methamphetamine or amphetamine in certain protected areas.<\/p>\n

Those areas can include school zones, park zones, public housing zones, and drug treatment facilities.<\/p>\n

Readers can review the law through the Minnesota Revisor of Statutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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John Louis Vondal Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The booking record does not identify which protected zone was involved.<\/p>\n

It also does not state the amount of the substance allegedly found.<\/p>\n

The available entry does not describe how authorities discovered the alleged drugs.<\/p>\n

Booking Details Remain Limited<\/h2>\n

The supplied information does not identify where the reported incident occurred.<\/p>\n

It also does not provide a release date or future court hearing.<\/p>\n

No police officer names are included in this report.<\/p>\n

Additional information could become available through later court filings.<\/p>\n

The Northwest Regional Corrections Center is located at 816 Marin Avenue in Crookston.<\/p>\n

The facility serves Polk, Norman, and Red Lake counties.<\/p>\n

More information is available through Tri-County Community Corrections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Booking Does Not Establish Guilt<\/h2>\n

A jail booking records a person’s entry into custody.<\/p>\n

It does not prove that the person committed the listed offense.<\/p>\n

Vondal’s listed charge remains subject to the court process.<\/p>\n

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

The final outcome could differ from the offense listed at booking.<\/p>\n

This report is based on the booking information supplied for publication.<\/p>\n

TRF News may update this report if more verified public information becomes available.<\/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":"

John Louis Vondal Jr. was booked in Crookston on a third-degree felony drug possession charge involving methamphetamine or amphetamine, records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45044,"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":[15462,16757,14737,5234,23555,23556,12406,10284,16683,13727,786],"class_list":["post-45043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recently-booked","tag-amphetamine-possession","tag-crookston-booking","tag-crookston-news","tag-felony-drug-charge","tag-john-louis-vondal-jr","tag-john-vondal-jr","tag-methamphetamine-possession","tag-minnesota-statute-152-023","tag-polk-county-jail","tag-third-degree-drug-possession","tag-trf-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45043","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=45043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45045,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45043\/revisions\/45045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}