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North Dakota man accused of impersonating an ICE officer when jail staff released an inmate to him
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man was arrested after authorities say he impersonated an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and walked an inmate out of a county jail.
The local sheriff said the episode on Tuesday resulted from complacency and human error and won’t happen again.
Shane Al Randall, of Williston, is charged with impersonating officials, a misdemeanor. Court papers say jail staff of the Williams County Correctional Center in Williston had told the inmate that ICE was coming to pick him up. The inmate then called Randall “to have him come pick him up,” authorities said.
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Randall arrived and told jail staff he was from ICE when he is not employed by the agency, and the staff released the inmate to him, court documents say.
Jail staff learned within 15 to 20 minutes that Randall was not an ICE agent when the real officer arrived, Williams County Sheriff Verlan Kvande said. Officers subsequently found and arrested Randall and the inmate without incident, his office said in a statement.
The sheriff is not taking disciplinary action against the jail staff, saying he’s met with them and “I truly don’t think there’s anything else I can do on the disciplinary front that is going to make them feel any worse about this than they do on their own fruition. They’re pretty dejected by this failure, and I certainly don’t see something like this happening again.”
The inmate was found at his home, the sheriff said. He was arrested last month for driving under suspension and held on a detainer for ICE, and has been taken to the Ward County Detention Center in Minot, the sheriff’s office said.
Court records indicate Randall is representing himself. He has bonded out of jail, the sheriff said. Randall has an initial appearance scheduled for March. He did not immediately respond to a message sent to a Facebook account believed to be his. A phone number for him could not immediately be found.
The misdemeanor offense is punishable by up to 360 days in jail and/or a $3,000 fine.
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(North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota Democrats rallied for a turnaround endorsing several candidates for statewide office to take on Republicans in November.
The Democratic-NPL Party endorsed state Sen. Ryan Braunberger of Fargo for secretary of state, Scot Kelsh of Fargo and John Pederson of Mayville for Public Service Commission and Tim Lamb of Grand Forks for attorney general. The party also issued a letter of support for Tracy Foss of Hatton for superintendent of public instruction.
Democrats have 429 delegates participating, which Party Chair Adam Goldwyn said is the most since 2018. The party has 49 legislative candidates so far, but Goldwyn challenged attendees to field candidates in districts that don’t yet have anyone running.
“The North Dakota Democratic-NPL party has one goal: contest every single election up and down the ballot all across the state,” Goldwyn said.
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NDHP, multiple police sighted downtown
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – North Dakota Highway Patrol, Mandan police and Bismarck police were all assisting on an incident Bismarck police say started in Mandan Saturday evening.
Multiple law enforcement vehicles were seen in downtown Bismarck and eventually ended up near Sanford Hospital.
Sanford officials say the hospital was placed under a modified lockdown for a short period of time. The lockdown has lifted.
At this time, no patients or employees were injured.
We will have more on this story as information becomes available.
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