{"id":56008,"date":"2026-09-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=56008"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:56:38","slug":"chad-seitz-booked-in-thief-river-falls-on-drug-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/chad-seitz-booked-in-thief-river-falls-on-drug-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Seitz Booked in Thief River Falls on Drug Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thief River Falls<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\">trfnews.i234.me<\/a>) \u2014 Chad Jess Seitz, 55, was recently booked into the Pennington County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>The jail roster lists Seitz as entering custody on September 24, 2026. His inmate classification is listed as DOC\/I.<\/p>\n<p>Seitz is being held in connection with a fifth-degree controlled substance charge.<\/p>\n<h2>Fifth-Degree Drug Charge Listed<\/h2>\n<p>The charge is listed under Minnesota Statute 152.025.2(1).<\/p>\n<p>The jail describes the offense as fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>The statute covers certain Schedule I, II, III, or IV controlled substances. It excludes qualifying cannabis and hemp products.<\/p>\n<p>It can also apply to certain controlled substance residue found in drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/cite\/152.025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Statute 152.025<\/a> through the Minnesota Revisor of Statutes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Mugshot section: The official jail roster currently reports that no photo is available. --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 25px 0;\">\n<p><strong>Chad Jess Seitz<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56009\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Seitz-Chad-Jess.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56009\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Seitz-Chad-Jess.png\" alt=\"Chad Jess Seitz\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Seitz-Chad-Jess.png 640w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Seitz-Chad-Jess-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Seitz-Chad-Jess-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chad Jess Seitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Seitz-Chad-Jess.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the Pennington County In-Custody Roster<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Jail Booking Information<\/h2>\n<p>Jail information lists Seitz at six feet tall and 203 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The booking information lists brown hair and green eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennington County Correctional Facility is located in Thief River Falls.<\/p>\n<p>The facility houses both sentenced inmates and people awaiting court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>More jail information is available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/penningtonsheriff.org\/index.php\/services\/jail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennington County Sheriff&#8217;s Office corrections page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Charge Does Not Establish Guilt<\/h2>\n<p>A jail booking does not establish that a person committed a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennington County Sheriff&#8217;s Office includes that warning with its online custody records.<\/p>\n<p>Charges are allegations unless they result in a guilty plea or court conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The public jail roster can also change as court cases and custody status develop.<\/p>\n<p>Additional case information may become available through Minnesota court records.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Jess Seitz, 55, was booked into the Pennington County Jail in Thief River Falls on a fifth-degree controlled substance charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56009,"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":"","timeOption":"","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":""},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[16518],"tags":[25712,25713,16525,5288,11030,16774,12696,25275,778],"class_list":["post-56008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recently-booked","tag-chad-jess-seitz","tag-chad-seitz","tag-drug-charge","tag-fifth-degree-drug-possession","tag-minnesota-arrest","tag-minnesota-jail-roster","tag-pennington-county-jail","tag-pennington-county-minnesota","tag-thief-river-falls","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56008","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=56008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56010,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56008\/revisions\/56010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}