With fatal overdoses rising, federal conspiracy and distribution cases filed this year provide a window into the drugs and defendants involved in illegal trafficking in the community.| InForum
Thousands of M30 pills were found in Maurice Haymon's SUV when he was pulled over on Interstate 94 in 2023. His attorney says the warrants and stop that led to the seizure were illegal.| InForum
The Alaska Bar Association’s board of governors is considering whether to recommend the disbarment of former federal judge Joshua Kindred and will vote on the issue next month.| KTOO
A criminal complaint filed Tuesday said an email from Charles Dalzell to the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, “I don’t want this situation to end up like Minnesota over the weekend, do you.”| Park Rapids Enterprise
Ricardo Jaquez, of Oakes, and eight others are accused in a major drug trafficking conspiracy with ties to the Latin Kings criminal street gang.| InForum
On Feb. 11, 2025, a federal judge found settlement agreements between plaintiffs and nine poultry processors to be fair and reasonable. The ruling is the result of a class-action lawsuit alleging poultry companies conspired to suppress wages.| West Central Tribune
Dillon Clemens and Jacob Cobb recently pleaded guilty to federal charges for drug trafficking. They had served time in the December 2010 murder of their mother at the family's Stevens County home.| West Central Tribune
FARGO – Ray Holmberg, once a powerful state legislator, admitted in federal court Thursday he took multiple trips to Europe with the intent to pay for sexual contact with children. “The boys rent at around $60 (sex is extra),” Holmberg wrote in an email to a friend using the alias Sean Evans, according to prosecutors. […]| North Dakota Monitor
A former North Dakota legislative leader who is scheduled to plead guilty Thursday to a child sexual abuse charge has violated conditions of his release, court records say.| North Dakota Monitor
