Court news: Rural Frazee man sentenced after his shots punctuate feud over neighbor s target practice
According to court records, on Nov. 28, 2019, the man fired several shots that alarmed a neighbor across Highway 87, saying he fired three shots into the air “to let (the neighbors) know he could shoot, too.”
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James Patrick Tuma, 71, of rural Frazee, has been sentenced in Becker County District Court on a misdemeanor charge of reckless discharge of a firearm.
A felony charge of endangering safety by discharging a firearm was dropped in a plea agreement.
According to court records, on Nov. 28, 2019, he fired several shots that alarmed a neighbor across Highway 87. Tuma said he fired three shots into the air “to let (the neighbors) know he could shoot, too.”
That moving line of stars over Becker County Thursday night was a SpaceX satellite cluster
SpaceX has FCC permission to launch 12,000 Starlink satellites into low earth orbit it wants to put up 42,000.
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Starlink satellites leave a trail across the Minnesota sky. (Photo by Bob King / duluthnewstribune.com/astro-bob)
To the untrained eye, that parade of stars moving from the northwest across the sky over Detroit Lakes on Thursday evening may have looked a bit like space invaders caught blinking between wormholes.
But what looked like 25 or 30 “stars” was actually a cluster of Starlink satellites on a low-orbit mission to provide high-speed internet service to North America.
Detroit Lakes police look to implement body cameras within 2 years; Becker County Sheriff s Office note positive first year of use
The Detroit Lakes Police Department is looking to follow in the footsteps of the Becker County Sheriff s Office by implementing their own body camera program with in the next two years, according to the city s police chief. The Becker County Sheriff s Office has been using body cameras for nearly a year and are going to be purchasing additional cameras after their request was approved by the Becker County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
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A WatchGuard VISTA WiFi body camera used by the Becker County Sheriff s Office. (Michael Achterling / Tribune)
Fire at farm outside of Lake Park
Firefighters from Lake Park, Audubon and Hawley responded to a structure fire about 2 miles north of Lake Park on 230th Street. Black smoke could be seen for miles as firefighters extinguished the blaze.
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Firefighters from Lake Park, Audubon and Hawley battle a structure fire about 2 miles north of Lake Park, near County Road 7 and 230th Street, on April 5, 2021. (Michael Achterling / Tribune)
Fire broke out at a commercial farm two miles north of Lake Park on Monday, April 5.
At about 3:45 p.m., firefighters from Lake Park, Audubon and Hawley were called away to battle a structure fire at a commercial farm near County Road 7 and 230th Street. The 911 dispatcher mentioned that one of the out buildings contained a propane tank, which added a sense of urgency for the first responders to get the blaze under control.
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