Four felony charges have been dismissed against Travis Garrett Job, 28, of Hawley, in Becker County District Court because he is deceased.
In October, he was charged with two counts of felony second-degree assault, felony criminal vehicle operation, and felony fourth-degree assault on a peace officer.
According to court records, on Oct. 12, he was involved in a motor vehicle hit and run at the Cenex in Lake Park, injuring two people who were at the propane filling station there.
On April 6, all charges were dismissed in Becker County District Court because Job died on March 31.
Man accused of working with victim to change her trial testimony
Two felony counts of violating a no-contact order have been dismissed against Kyle Wally Hilborn, 33, of Faribault, Minn. in Becker County District Court.
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According to court records, From Sept. 10 to Sept. 12, 2019, Hilborn was on trial in Becker County District Court for felony third-degree assault and felony second-degree domestic assault. He had an active domestic abuse restraining order and an active harassment restraining order on file against him at the time, preventing contact with the victim.
On Sept. 11, he and the victim were seen in the same general area of each other at the Washington Square Mall in Detroit Lakes. During the second day of trial, the victim testified in a manner favorable to Hilborn, and inconsistent with her prior statement to police.
That made police suspect the two were in contact. Officers on stake-out duty saw her leave a Dodge Charger in the mall parking lot and get into a silver Dodge Ram pickup truck that pulled up next to the Charger. She spoke with the driver for about five minutes, then the Ram drove to the courthouse and the occupants spoke to Hilborn. Then the pickup truck took her back to the Charger and dropped her off.
Phone records showed contact between Hilborn and the victim, and she admitted that they had gotten back together, with their last contact being on Sept. 12. She wondered why it mattered, since he was found guilty in spite of her favorable testimony.
On April 7, both felony counts of violating a no-contact order were dismissed by the Becker County Attorney’s Office in the interests of justice, since Hilborn is serving a prison term until September of 2021.
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Man accused of Christmas morning assault in Becker County
Ian Carter Sexton, 26, of Montgomery, Minn., has been charged in Becker County District Court with two counts of felony domestic assault.
According to court records, on Dec. 30, Sexton’s ex-girlfriend reported that he had assaulted her in Becker County five days earlier, on Christmas morning. She had let him stay over the previous night, and that morning she was eating a bowl of cereal in the kitchen when he approached, threw the cereal bowl at her, hit her, then hit her twice on the side of the face.
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She said she didn’t report it at the time because he had assaulted her in the past, and she was scared of him and what he might do.
On April 1, District Judge James Dehn issued a summons for Sexton to appear in court May 27.
Felony theft charge dropped against Frazee woman who took car
Crystal Ann Covey, 32, of Frazee, has had a felony theft charge against her dismissed in Becker County District Court.
According to court records, on July 2, 2018, the owner of a vehicle reported that Covey took it without permission and did not return it. A deputy contacted Covey by phone, and she said she was not going to bring the vehicle back, and that she would rather be arrested than return the vehicle. On being told that, the vehicle owner signed it as being stolen, and two days later, on July 4, a deputy acting on tip found the vehicle in a driveway in the Brandy Lake area. Covey was just getting out of it, and two witnesses said they saw her driving it.
On March 31, the felony charge was dismissed by the Becker County Attorney’s Office, because Covey has been charged instead with misdemeanor tampering with a motor vehicle, as part of a plea bargain in the same case.
