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Red Lake Nation members vote "no" to alcohol sales at Seven Clans Casinos 975 to 839
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...
Activity Day at Red Lake Elementary combines education and entertainment
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 Houl...
Bemidji man enters guilty plea to child porn charge
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...
Healthy hearts beat in Red Lake; Students connect with community resources at fair
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...
Bemidji man charged with possession of child pornography
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...
Two Red Lake men sentenced in violent crime cases
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 holdin...
Cass Lake man arrested for sex with 11-year-old
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....
Red Lake men helping women 'Take Back the Night'
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....
Preserving tradition and building partnerships a theme at forum
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...
County Attorney candidates debate their differences
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 Blis...
Beltrami County leaders discuss Ebola response
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...
Woman enters guilty plea in meth trafficking case
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...
Cass Lake man sentenced in kidnapping case
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....
Walker man starts Beltrami County Jail cell on fire
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...
Red Lake Police bust Illinois man with heroin on reservation
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,...
Warrant issued for man arrested in Red Lake
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...
Bemidji man sentenced to 25 years for sex crime
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...
First of four people arrested in meth bust pleads guilty
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...
Heroin and meth seized in Red Lake drug bust
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...
Red Lake woman arrested for meth possession
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 outsi...
Man pleads guilty to arson charge from 2012 in Beltrami County
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...
Commissioners talk homelessness and jail
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...
Redby man, Redwood Falls woman sentenced in burglary spree
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...
Bounty hunter nabs Minneapolis woman charged in Beltrami County
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...
Red Lake woman sentenced after rollover
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...
