Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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WALKER -- One of two men involved in a stabbing in Cass Lake in August pleaded not guilty Wednesday to all charges in Cass County Court. Sheldon James Armstrong III, 22, of Cass Lake is charged with felony charges of first-degree attempted murder, kidnapping, second-degree assault and theft after he and an accomplice allegedly assaulted and stabbed a victim and attempted to drive him over with his own truck. Armstrong's next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 20. Armstrong's accomplice, Travis Richard Paquette, 18, of Bemidji, faces...
BEMIDJI -- Dwight Jones and Cory Jones made their initial appearances Monday in Beltrami County District Court since their involvement in a recent shooting incident near Cass Lake. Dwight Thomas Jones, 37, and Cory J. Walter Jones, 26, both of Cass Lake, were identified by a witness as shooting and assaulting two men from White Earth on Sept. 26. At approximately 1 a.m., officers from the Beltrami County Sheriff's Department and the Leech Lake Tribal Police Department responded to a shooting in Ten Lakes Township on the 4300 block of Luomas...
HUBBARD COUNTY -- Two men arrested in connection with copper theft and damage to the former Ainsworth Plant in Hubbard County have plead guilty to burglary charges. Roderick John Goose, 47, of Walker, and Jeffrey Allen Goose, 28, of Cass Lake, were each charged with two counts of felony theft, one count of felony third-degree burglary and two counts of felony first-degree damage to property. Both men pleaded guilty to the burglary charge Sept. 29 in Hubbard County Court. The Hubbard County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a suspicious...
BEMIDJI -- Tribal members nationwide starting receiving Cobell settlement checks in the past few weeks from what has been dubbed one of the largest lawsuits ever against the federal government. Yet, thousands of people in Red Lake, Leech Lake and White Earth have not been paid -- because their whereabouts are unknown. The Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians keeps a list of people with Individual Indian Money accounts who do not have current addresses listed. An IIM is part of the criteria to receive a Cobell settlement check....
BELTRAMI COUNTY -- A Cass Lake man was convicted Thursday by a jury in Beltrami County District Court on felony kidnapping and false imprisonment charges. Joseph Harvey Bellanger, 32, was found guilty on four counts of kidnapping and four counts of false imprisonment stemming from a meth-related incident in March. He pleaded not guilty to the charges Tuesday. Bellanger was arrested with Robert Joseph Jones, 33, John Jacob White, 25 and Darlene Marie Wind, 31, all of Cass Lake, after Beltrami County Sheriff's deputies began investigating a...
BEMIDJI -- A man was stabbed in September in Bemidji after a woman allegedly ordered the act. Jonathan Garrick Beaulieu, 18, of Bemidji appeared Tuesday in Beltrami County District Court charged with felony second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon. Beaulieu is accused of stabbing a man in Bemidji on Sept. 20. Bemidji Police Officers responded to a report of an assault at Skyline Village at approximately 12:08 a.m., court documents state. Upon arrival, officers observed a man on the back deck of a residence on Delton Ave. NW. The man...
RED LAKE -- "Biinjwebinigedaa" didn't exactly roll off Rep. Steve Simon's tongue Thursday afternoon, but that was exactly why he was in Red Lake. Simon, DFL-Hopkins, traveled to the Red Lake Indian Reservation to meet with the Red Lake Political Education Committee and view one of the absentee voting sites his bill made possible. Simon drafted HF 894, the "no excuses absentee voting bill," which was passed by the Legislature in 2013. Simon is running for Minnesota Secretary of State; he is...
RED LAKE -- The unofficial results are in for the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians' special election. Robert Smith appears to have beat six other contenders for a Red Lake District Tribal Council position Wednesday night. The special election took place to fill the position vacated by Donald "Dudie" May Jr. in March. Smith received 33.11 percent of 598 votes cast. Other candidates received as follows: Donald Desjarlait - 18.39 percent; Deanna Lasley - 2.84 percent; Lee Lussier - 17.56 percent; Clem May - 12.71 percent; Cherilyn Spears - 5.18 p...
CASS LAKE -- The Cass Lake man involved in a crash that killed two people in May pleaded not guilty Monday in Cass County Court to felony criminal vehicular homicide. Michael James Stangel, 27, is charged with eight counts of criminal vehicular homicide. Stangel's charges include operating a motor vehicle in a grossly negligent manner, operating a vehicle with negligence under the influence of alcohol, operating a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of .08 or more and alcohol concentration of .08 or more within two hours of driving....
RED LAKE -- A Red Lake man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in U.S. District Court in Fergus Falls today. Trevor Lee Jones, 20, is charged with unlawfully killing Jerick Michael Neadeau, 17, in July. Jones is accused of stabbing Neadeau in the chest with a buck knife, causing his death when the two fought during a July 4 party at a residence located within the Red Lake Indian Reservation, according to court documents. Jones is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, as was Neadeau. Jones was charged with...
BEMIDJI -- A 23-year-old Kelliher man was convicted Monday in Beltrami County Court of criminal sexual conduct involving a 13-year-old girl. John Norman Wickham III was charged with fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct for having sex with the girl in July 2013. He plead not guilty in March and amended his plea to guilty in July. Wickham was sentenced to one year in Beltrami County Jail of which 344 days are stayed for two years. Wickham must serve 21 days and was credited with two days time served. He has been placed on two years supervised...
WALKER -- A former Cass Lake-Bena School Board member was convicted Tuesday in Cass County Court of theft from the School District in 2008. Terri L. Vail, 53, of Cass Lake, was sentenced to 30 days home detention with electronic monitoring for one count of felony theft by false representation. Vail has been placed on three years supervised probation and must pay a $50 fine. Cass County Attorney Christopher Strandlie said if Vail successfully completes her probation the charge will revert to a...
BEMIDJI -- Landmass to grains of sand highlighted Tuesday's Beltrami County Commissioners meeting. A recent debate over liquor permits near the Red Lake Indian Reservation was a potentially massive debate until a resort owner pulled his liquor permit application. A public hearing took place during the county board's Aug. 19 meeting regarding a new off sale liquor license application for Roger's Resort and Campground in Shotley Township on Upper Red Lake. The resort is already licensed for 3.2...
BEMIDJI -- Children throughout the Bemidji area are anxiously awaiting the first day of school. "What will I wear?", "Will I make new friends?" are some of the questions they may ask themselves. But for others, those questions will be "Where will I live?", and "Who will take care of me?" An portion of the population has been making due with less than adequate resources, and there aren't enough foster homes to fit the needs of children in the area, officials say. "Minnesota is the worst state in the nation in the disparities of American Indian...
BEMIDJI -- A Red Lake woman plead not guilty in Beltrami County Court on Wednesday to criminal vehicular operation. She is facing criminal charges after she crashed her vehicle causing injuries to a passenger. Melvina Rose May, 49, rolled her Ford F150 in the early morning June 1 on Highway 89 south of Scribner Road NW. Court documents stated May admitted to having been drinking. A preliminary blood test showed an alcohol concentration of 0.184; the legal limit is 0.08. A passenger in her vehicle was put on a stretcher and into an ambulance...
BEMIDJI -- A Duluth man faces a burglary charge after an attempted break-in at a Solway home last week. Marcus Woundedeye, 35, of Duluth is charged with felony first-degree attempted burglary of an occupied dwelling. First-degree attempted burglary carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $35,000 fine. According to court documents, a Solway woman was awoken by someone attempting to break into her home at about 1 a.m. Aug. 19. Beltrami County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a call o...
CASS LAKE -- The Cass County Sheriff's Office has issued a notification that a level three sex offender will be moving to the Cass Lake area Oct. 1. A community notification meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 17 in the commons area of the Cass Lake-Bena High School. James Tacumseh Littlewolf, 26, has a history of sexual contact with adolescent female victims, according to a release from the sheriff's office. He was known to his victims. Littlewolf was convicted of third-degree criminal sexual...
BEMIDJI -- A Redby man was convicted Monday in Beltrami County Court for conspiring to transport 43 grams of methamphetamine from the Twin Cities to the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Joseph Jacob Thunder III, 47, of Redby, was sentenced for felony second-degree drug sale to 69 months in the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud. Thunder was arrested on U.S. Highway 71 south of Bemidji on May 23. Alex "Sparky" Dejesus-Zuniga, 18, and Delisha Rae Rodriguez, 25, both of Richfield were also ar...
CASS LAKE -- A man who held a female hostage early Wednesday morning has been taken into custody by the Cass County Sheriff's Office. Christopher Morris-Headbird, 31, of Cass Lake was arrested after the Cass County Sheriff's Office activated the Emergency Response Unit at approximately 2:50 a.m. Wednesday, according to a release issued by the sheriff's office. Morris-Headbird reportedly barricaded himself and a female inside a residence while possessing a firearm and making threats. Once a search warrant was obtained, at approximately 5:40 a.m....
WALKER -- Hundreds of eyes were cast to the stage erected in the Northern Lights Casino Hotel Ballroom on Thursday morning to see what is in the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe's future. In a word: progress. Band members gathered to hear Chairwoman Carri Jones deliver the annual State of the Band address. Rep. Rick Nolan, D-Minn., was the guest speaker. Jones and Nolan spoke of the deteriorating Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, tribal land restoration and the Capitol Christmas Tree project. Nolan said under...
BENA -- As people in suits mingled outside the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School in Bena on Tuesday afternoon, an inconspicuous man walked up the sidewalk after the rain stopped just in time for the U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn's visit to the school. "Welcome to our high school," Benjamin Bowstring said. Bowstring is the man who can tell you everything there is to know about the deteriorating building, he's the assista...
BEMIDJI -- A man from Richfield has plead guilty to charges in an attempted meth trafficking case. Alex "Sparky" Dejesus-Zuniga, 18, plead guilty to felony first-degree conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and giving a peace officer a false name on Aug. 11 in Beltrami County Court. Dejesus-Zuniga was arrested in May with two other individuals while transporting 43 grams of methamphetamine in a Jeep headed from the Twin Cities to the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Dejesus-Zuniga plead not guilty to both charges in July. First-degree...
BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji man who was arrested with a large amount of marijuana, firearms and methamphetamine in November was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Barry Lee Jacobson, 46, was convicted Aug. 11 in Beltrami County Court of one count of felony first-degree drug sale and one count of felony weapon possession. Jacobson entered a Lothenbach plea in July. By doing so, he waived a jury trial in exchange for a court trial in which a judge determines the sentence. Judge John Melbye sentenced...
WALKER -- A Cass Lake man was sentenced in Cass County Court for his part in burglarizing a Hackensack liquor store in June. Jeffrey Allen Goose, 28, was convicted of felony third-degree burglary on Aug. 4. Goose was sentenced to one year and one day in the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud which has been stayed for five years. Goose must serve 60 days local confinement in the Cass County Jail. He was credited with 33 days time served. Goose was arrested along with Curtis Eugene...
BEMIDJI -- Charges were dropped for two of four people from Bemidji arrested for methamphetamine trafficking in June. Raymond Jesse Nibbe Jr, 57, was charged with two counts of felony first-degree drug sale. Philip Eugene Gurzi, 55, was charged with three counts of felony first-degree drug sale. Beltrami County Court prosecution dismissed charges against Nibbe and Gurzi on Aug. 7. Nibbe and Gurzi were arrested along with Tamara Sue Halverson 44 and Shawn Elston Jackson, 46, after Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force narcotics agents conducted several...
