Charges are pending for Farah Darco, 21, of Grand Forks, for Fleeing in a Motor Vehicle and Theft of a Motor Vehicle. In a separate incident Wesley Johannessohn, a 37 year old Grand Forks resident, was arrested and charged with a variety of offences including DUI.
By Doug Barrett
Mar 15, 2021 10:00 AM
A Sunday night police pursuit has landed two people in the Grand Forks County Correctional Center. Officers of the GFPD responded to a theft report at the Walmart store on 32
nd Avenue South shortly after 10:00 p.m. A witness followed the suspect vehicle until police located it at Stamart on North 47
th Street.
At that point the vehicle drove off…ran a red light…and headed west on Highway 2. Authorities say the driver attempted to run officers off the road. The suspect later turned around on Highway 2 and proceeded to head east. That’s when the vehicle struck a marked patrol unit and became disabled.
Grand Forks County is leading the state in the push to have 60% of the population vaccinated. The county sits at 8.5% of that goal, and is followed by Cass County at 7.4%
Noberto Zapata Jr.
MAYVILLE, ND (KFGO) – A man wanted for attempted murder in the beating of a student on the Mayville State University campus has been arrested.
37-year-old Noberto Zapata, Jr. was found in an apartment in Hatton earlier this week. Traill County Chief Deputy Tony Ernst says Zapata tried to escape by going through a window, but he was quickly apprehended by deputies and state crime bureau agents. Zapata is one of five people charged in the attack.
The victim reported that he was grabbed by the hair, punched in the eye, hit with a baseball bat, stabbed in the head and thigh with a screwdriver and run over by a car. Security video from the school helped identify the suspects and the cars they were in.
KVRR Local News
January 22, 2021
MAYVILLE, ND (KVRR/KFGO) – A man wanted for attempted murder in the beating of a student on the Mayville State University campus has been arrested.
Thirty-seven-year-old Noberto Zapata, Jr. was found in an apartment in Hatton earlier this week. Zapata is one of five people charged in the attack.
Traill County Chief Deputy Tony Ernst says Zapata tried to escape by going through a window, but he was quickly apprehended by deputies and state crime bureau agents.
The victim reported that he was grabbed by the hair, punched in the eye, hit with a baseball bat, stabbed in the head and thigh with a screwdriver and run over by a car. Security video from the school helped identify the suspects and the cars they were in.