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ajohnson@minotdailynews.com Submitted Photo Alex DeCoteau, who is teaching an online Ojibwe class at Minot State, is pictured with his father, George “Makwa Mishtatim” DeCoteau. Alex DeCoteau, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is teaching a class in the Ojibwe language online this semester at Minot State. DeCoteau said in an email last month that he believes it is the first time MSU has ever offered a class in Ojibwe. “I’m hoping indigenous students will ...

Turtle Mountain RCMP seized cocaine after executing a search warrant at a residence in Boissevain....

  WINNIPEG -- Manitoba RCMP officers seized 42 grams of cocaine from a home in Boissevain, Man., on Friday, Jan. 8. Officers with the West District Crime Reduction Enforcement Team (CREST) and the Turtle Mountain detachment searched a home on Broadway Street, where they seized about 42 grams of cocaine, Canadian money and drug paraphernalia. Mounties arrested a 40-year-old woman at the home. She is facing charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of trafficking mater...

26 charged in Detroit-North Dakota reservations opioid bust

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they have cut into an opioid pipeline that for five years has been moving millions of dollars worth of oxycodone pills from Detroit to three American...

ajohnson@minotdailynews.com A jury trial has been scheduled for Feb. 23 in U.S. District Court in Fargo before Judge Peter Welte for some defendants whom authorities allege were part of a a drug trafficking ring that distributed oxycodone on the Fort Berthold, Turtle Mountain, and Spirit Lake reservations between 2015 and 2019. The ring also reportedly had ties to Detroit, Mich. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Fargo held a press conference on Thursday to discuss developments in “Operation Blu...

"Operation Blue Prairie" led investigators to two Detroit-based brothers accused of recruiting North Dakota residents, some of them addicts, to become low-level drug dealers peddling oxycodone pills, a federal prosecutor said.

KVRR Local News Investigators are calling it "Operation Blue Prairie" January 7, 2021 NORTH DAKOTA — Twenty six people are charged in what is being called an unprecedented drug distribution enterprise on Indian country in North Dakota. Operation Blue Prairie is the investigation into a large drug ring taking place on North Dakota’s Spirit Lake, Turtle Mountain and Fort Berthold Indian Reservations since 2015. “It was the objective of this conspiracy to target and exploit the largely Nativ...

A U.S. Attorney said 26 people have been charged in a major drug pipeline bust which fueled at least $2.5 million of oxycodone pills from Detroit into American Indian reservations in North Dakota

U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley announces charges in wide-scale drug ring on North Dakota reservations A press conference is being held at the Federal Courthouse in Fargo regarding charges in a large drug distribution ring on three North Dakota Indian Reservations. 12:08 pm, Jan. 7, 2021 × U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley meets with The Forum editorial board Wednesday, May 29, 2019 in Fargo. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor FARGO — At approximately 12:20 p.m. Thursday, Jan. ...