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RED LAKE -- Alcohol will not be allowed at Seven Clans Casinos. Band members cast their votes in a mandatory referendum vote this week, deciding if alcohol would be permitted on at the Seven Clans Casinos in Warroad and Thief River Falls. In a 975 to 839 vote, the majority, 53.75 percent, voted no. The Red Lake Tribal Secretary's office released preliminary results tonight at 9:20 p.m. Official results will be certified Thursday at 10 a.m. by the general election board. Alcohol continues to be...
RED LAKE-An edutainment park popped up Wednesday next to the Red Lake Elementary School where students took a break from the classroom for the 11th annual Activity Day. Children in kindergarten through fifth-grade visited 40 activity stations developed by Red Lake physical education instructors Angela Lauderbaugh and Denise Houle. Lauderbaugh, who teaches kindergartners, said Activity Day was created to help promote collaboration, communication and peacemaking. As students prepare for the end of...
BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji man charged with felony possession of pornography entered a guilty plea in Beltrami County District Court on Monday. Max Arnett Lussier, 55, was arrested in October after images of children engaged in sexual acts were traced to his computer IP address. He is charged with one count of possession of pornographic work involving minors. During execution of a search warrant, Lussier told law enforcement they would find the information they were looking for on one of three computers in his apartment. Downloaded images included...
RED LAKE -- The Red Lake High School gymnasium was transformed into a hub of health Friday afternoon during the Eighth annual Teen Health Fair. Since 2006, the school has been hosting the event to foster students' faith in the community and introduce them to available resources. Community Education Resource Coordinator Victoria Graves said the fair is in response to the 2005 school shooting tragedy, which had a lasting effect on students. "It's holistic healing for physical, emotional, mental...
BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji man is facing a felony possession of pornography charge after images of children engaged in sexual acts were traced to his computer IP address. Max Arnett Lussier, 55, was arrested Friday after a search warrant executed at Lussier's apartment in Bemidji revealed computers believed to have been used to download child pornography. The Bemidji Police Department and North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation traced a peer-to-peer download of child pornography to Lussier's IP...
RED LAKE -- Two Red Lake were sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Duluth to seven years in prison for unrelated offenses that occurred last year on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Fernando Luis May-Gil-Garcia, 29, was convicted of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. May-Gil-Garcia plead guilty to assaulting a woman multiple times in August 2013 while she was holding a baby and unable to fend off the blows, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The release said the baby was struck during the assault. As a result of...
BEMIDJI -- A Cass Lake man has been arrested for allegedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl multiple times. Lance Arnold Kingbird, 46, was arrested Saturday after the girl's mother reported the crime to the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office. The most recent incident occurred in Ten Lake Township, according to court documents. The victim told staff at the Family Advocacy Center in Bemidji she has been sexually abused by Kingbird multiple times, including five incidents over the past few weeks....
RED LAKE -- Thirty-eight names, 38 stories, 38 lives were lost to domestic violence in 2013. The Red Lake Equay Wiigamig Women's Shelter will not let those people be forgotten. The group met Wednesday night at Seven Clans Casino in Red Lake to honor those lives with a "Take Back the Night" balloon release and tealight vigil. Attendees wore t-shirts that said "Domestic Violence is a Crime" on the front and "Real Men Don't Hit" on the back, which men at the event wore proudly. "We are meeting...
RED LAKE -- Candidates for Red Lake School Board agreed that preservation of the Ojibwe language in the schools is a top priority and that student-teacher communication is key in the students' development. Kathryn "Jody" Beaulieu, Chris Jourdain, Roy Nelson and Tina Stately took part in a candidate fair at Seven Clans Casino and Event Center in Red Lake on Wednesday. The event was presented by the Red Lake Political Education Committee, a tribal non-profit, non-partisan organization. In...
BEMIDJI -- Candidates to be the next Beltrami County Attorney highlighted their differences in a League of Women Voters debate Tuesday night at Bemidji City Hall. Beltrami County Attorney candidates Annie Claesson-Huseby and David Hanson countered comments between questions while Beltrami County Commissioner candidates Matt Bliss and Keith Winger agreed on a few points. Consistent with his platform, Hanson's opening comments included mention that Beltrami County has one of the highest crime rate...
BEMIDJI -- How will the global pandemic of Ebola affect Beltrami County? Chances are it won't. Beltrami County Emergency Management Director Chris Muller presented commissioners with information on Ebola at Tuesday's county board meeting. Muller said while the 2014 Ebola epidemic is possibly the worst in history, the risk of catching Ebola in the general public is extremely low. Muller added it is very unlikely Ebola will affect Beltrami County. "Ebola, just sounds scary, the first thing you think of is death and people dying," Muller said....
BEMIDJI -- A Minneapolis woman who attempted to bring methamphetamine to the Red Lake Indian Reservation pleaded guilty Tuesday in Beltrami County District Court to a felony drug sale charge. Delisha Rae Rodriguez, 25, is charged with felony first-degree drug sale, which carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Rodriguez was arrested in May when she and two men were en route from Minneapolis to Red Lake with 43 grams of meth. One of the men, Joseph Jacob Thunder III, 47, of Redby, was sentenced to 69 months in...
BELTRAMI COUNTY -- A Cass Lake man was sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping and false imprisonment, but will only spend 321 days in the Beltrami County Jail. Robert Joseph Jones, 33, was convicted Wednesday in Beltrami County District Court on two counts of felony kidnapping and two counts of false imprisonment. Jones was sentenced to eight years in the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud, but that time is stayed for 20 years. Jones was sentenced to 321 days local...
BEMIDJI -- A Walker man is facing felony arson charges after he lit his shirt and a mattress on fire in the Beltrami County Jail. George Skye Tikayne, 20, was arrested for violating conditions of his probation for a second-degree burglary conviction and underage consumption of alcohol on Oct. 6. Tikayne was booked into the Beltrami County Jail and placed in a holding cell. At approximately 5 p.m., he began kicking and pounding on the cell door, according to a criminal complaint. Corrections officers noticed Tikayne had removed his shirt and...
RED LAKE -- Red Lake Tribal Police arrested a man from Illinois on Tuesday for possession of heroin on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. David Contrell McClure, 22, of Naperville, Ill., had 40 grams of heroin in his possession when officers executed a search warrant at a Little Rock residence Tuesday morning. Officers were searching for narcotics and narcotic trafficking, according to a criminal complaint. Red Lake officers located McClure in a bedroom attempting to hide several micro-baggies containing a large amount of heroin. McClure is not...
RED LAKE -- A warrant has been issued for a man arrested in Red Lake earlier this month for heroin possession. Christopher Erving Peoples, 33, was arrested Oct. 3 and charged with felony fifth-degree possession of heroin. Peoples failed to appear at a hearing in Beltrami County District Court on Monday. On Oct. 3, Peoples was located in a basement of a residence on the 23300 block of Highway 1 in Red Lake, where officers found a digital scale, a micro bag of a brown substance believed to be...
BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji man received a 25 year prison sentence for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in 2013. Jeremy Bruce Cournoyer, 34, was sentenced Monday in Beltrami County District Court for felony first-degree criminal sexual conduct to 300 months in the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud with 99 years conditional release after confinement. Cournoyer faced a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $40,000 fine. Cournoyer plead not guilty to the charge Oct. 25, 2013 and...
BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji man plead guilty Thursday to felony drug sale. Shawn Elston Jackson, 47, is the first in a group of four people arrested for first-degree sale of methamphetamine to plead guilty in Beltrami County District Court. Jackson was arrested in June after Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force narcotics agents conducted multiple search warrants and seized a large amount of cash, vehicles and other evidence in Puposky, Minn. The evidence connected Jackson to a criminal enterprise that involved several other states and large quantities of...
RED LAKE -- Two men were arrested Friday in Red Lake and are charged with possession of heroin and methamphetamine in Beltrami County. Christopher Erving Peoples, 33, of Red Lake, and Michael Linor Dukes, 46, address unknown, are charged with felony drug possession. Peoples and Dukes appeared Monday in Beltrami County District Court. Officers with the Headwaters Safe Trails Task Force and Beltrami County Sheriff's Office assisted the Red Lake Police Department in executing a search warrant...
BEMIDJI -- A Red Lake woman was apprehended Saturday by Bemidji Police in Bemidji with more than 40 grams of methamphetamine. Stormie Jasmine Graves, 23, appeared Monday in Beltrami County District Court facing a felony first-degree possession of methamphetamine charge. Graves was arrested at approximately 10 p.m. Saturday outside a residence on the 2300 block of Calihan Ave. NE. Bemidji Police officers were originally in the area responding to a 911 call, according to a criminal complaint. Offi...
BEMIDJI -- A former Eckles Township man pleaded guilty on Sept. 30 to felony arson in Beltrami County District Court. Donald Michael Roy, 39, of Minneapolis is accused of intentionally setting a fire to a home he was purchasing in 2012. A Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office incident report states he was previously connected to an arson case involving a Bemidji apartment he had rented. A warrant was issued for Roy’s arrest in January after he failed to appear at a hearing for the arson charge in Beltrami County and for a separate drug pos...
BEMIDJI -- Beltrami County Commissioners discussed two topics at Tuesday's county board meeting that have been on the agenda throughout the year -- homelessness in the area and increased capacity and functionality in the jail. People in tune with the homelessness situation in Bemidji have already heard of a possible shelter coming in the next three to five years. What's new is a potential funding source. "This past year was an unprecedented year at the state Legislature. There was $100 million allocated for affordable housing," said Rick Klun,...
INTERNATIONAL FALLS -- Two people arrested in connection with 11 burglaries in six communities have been sentenced in Koochiching County Court. Brandon George Howard Sr., 34, of Redby, and Holly Beth Johnson, 30, of Redwood Falls, were arrested in July by Red Lake Tribal Police. The two were suspected in burglaries that occurred at seasonal cabins and unoccupied residences in Roosevelt, Benville, Shooks, Spruce, Minnie and Bemidji Townships. Howard was convicted Sept. 29 of felony second-degree burglary. He was sentenced to 28 months in the...
BEMIDJI -- A Minneapolis woman who attempted to outrun the law appeared Monday in Beltrami County District Court. Delisha Rae Rodriguez, 25, was arrested south of Bemidji in May when she and two men attempted to transport 43 grams of methamphetamine from Minneapolis to the Red Lake Indian Reservation, according to court documents. Rodriguez is charged with felony first-degree drug sale, which carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. One of her conspirators, Joseph Jacob Thunder III, 47, of Redby, was sentenced to...
BEMIDJI -- A Red Lake woman has been sentenced to serve 15 days in jail for causing a crash that injured a passenger in June. Melvina Rose May, 49, was convicted Sept. 30 in Beltrami County District Court of criminal vehicular operation of a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more. May's blood alcohol level was 0.184 when she rolled her Ford F150 on Highway 89 south of Scribner Road Northwest in June. A passenger in May's vehicle was injured in the accident. May was sentenced to 365 days in the Beltrami County Jail, of...
