A Fargo, N.D., man is facing felony theft by swindle charges after having four vehicles delivered to a Detroit Lakes residence and failing to pay for them.
According to court records, last summer David Kent Theodore Rogstad, 24, of Fargo called Vision Ford and Lincoln of Wahpeton, N.D., and ordered two vehicles delivered to a house on the 1500 block of Gary Avenue in Detroit Lakes.
On Aug. 29, agents with the dealership delivered a 2019 Ford Rocky Ridge F-150 pickup truck ($73,592 total purchase price) and a 2020 Ford Explorer ($50,201 total purchase price) and Rogstad signed the purchase documents. He did not have a check to pay for the vehicle and said his bank was issuing a certified check, and that he would deliver the certified check to Vision Ford on Sept. 3. But the check was never delivered, according to court records.
Vision Ford repossessed the 2020 Explorer on Sept. 10.
The next day, a delivery of two more vehicles arrived at the same address. This time, Rogstad had ordered them from Johnson Ford of New Richmond, Wis., according to court records.
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One was a 2019 Ford F-150 pickup truck ($57,605 total purchase price) and the other was a 2020 Ford Explorer ($64,100 total purchase price). He signed the purchase documents. He originally promised to pay in cash after delivery, and later said he sent a check to Johnson Ford. Again, payment was never received, and the dealership repossessed both vehicles on Sept. 18.
On March 3, District Judge Jay Carlson issued an arrest warrant for Rogstad in Minnesota and surrounding states. Rogstad was charged in Becker County District with two counts of felony theft by swindle.
In a separate case, Rogstad was charged with felony check forgery.
According to court records, on Nov. 2 he forged a $10.95 check from a woman’s closed Wells Fargo account at M&H convenience store in Detroit Lakes. The signature on the transaction slip matches Rogstad’s handwriting. On March 3, District Judge Mike Fritz issued a warrant for Rogstad's arrest in Minnesota.
Ogema man accused of selling 30 grams meth
Spencer Charles Hanks, 33, of rural Ogema was charged in Becker County District Court with felony first-degree controlled substance crime.
According to court records, Hanks was involved in the sale of more than 30 grams of meth to a confidential reliable informant with the West Central Minnesota Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
The confidential reliable informant bought the 30.2 grams of meth from Todd Allen Bellanger Jr., according to court records, but the two went together to Hank’s residence to get the meth, and Hank’s left palm print was found on the bag of meth.
On March 3, District Judge Mike Fritz issued a summons for Hanks to appear in court March 26.
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Drug charge follows traffic stop in Frazee
Troy Adam Sigmundik (formerly Troy Adam Signundik), 51, of Frazee was charged in Becker County District with felony fifth-degree controlled substance crime, misdemeanor driving after his license was revoked, and misdemeanor driving without insurance.
According to court records, on March 2 Sigmundik was pulled over while driving a van in Frazee, after the officer noticed that the license plate on the van was registered to a Chevrolet Suburban. Sigmundik's license was revoked and he did not have valid auto insurance.
He was arrested and searched, and the officer found a pill bottle on him with two plastic baggies containing a total of 0.72 grams of meth, with packaging, according to court records.
Sigmundik appeared March 3 before District Judge Mike Fritz, who released him without bail, with standard conditions of release.
DL woman accused of hiding boyfriend from the law
Brittany Violet Anderson, 21, of Detroit Lakes was charged in Becker County District Court with felony aiding an offender on probation or parole.
According to court records, on Feb. 29 a Detroit Lakes police officer on patrol saw a parked car with its hood up and-people standing around it.
He turned around to see if there was car trouble, and saw a man run into a house. The officer knew that Anderson lived at the house, according to court records, and that there was an active Minnesota Department of Corrections warrant out for her boyfriend, Nicholas Wallace Johnson.
The officer believed that the man who ran was Johnson, and two other people outside the residence confirmed that “Nick” was the man who ran into the house, according to court records.
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Other officers arrived to search the house, but never found the man. Anderson told them he had run out the back door, but there were no footprints in the snow there.
Asked where "Nick" was, she said she didn’t know and had just woken up. She continuously denied knowing where he was hiding, and was eventually arrested. She later told officers he may be hiding in the basement, according to court records. Officers looked again and found a small, hidden trap door leading to the basement. The trap door was hidden by items on top placed by someone after the man had gone down into the basement, where he was found hiding.
On March 3, District Judge Mike Fritz released Anderson without bail, under standard conditions of release.
Late night stroll on Highway 10 leads to drug charge
Holly Ann Weaver, 22, of Frazee was charged in Becker County District Court with felony fifth-degree controlled substance crime.
According to court records, a little after 2 a.m. on March 1, a trooper saw a woman, Weaver, walking on the median side of the fog line on westbound Highway 10.
He stopped his squad car and asked her for identification. When she reached into her pocket, a plastic baggie with a white rock-like substance fell to the ground, according to court records. He asked what was in the bag, and she said it was meth. It weighed 4.81 grams with packaging.
Weaver previously was convicted of third-degree drug sales in 2017.
On March 3, District Judge Mike Fritz released her without bail, under standard conditions of release.
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DL man charged with being fugitive from justice
Bryon Christopher Hultquist, 39, of Detroit Lakes was charged in Becker County District with felony being a fugitive from justice.
According to court records, on Feb. 3 police were called to the Frazee Dollar General store after an employee said Hultquist had been in the bathroom there for over an hour and seemed “out of it.” A police officer found him in the bathroom in the dark, and he appeared to have just woken up.
He was wanted on a Grand Forks County, N.D., warrant issued Jan. 22.
On Feb. 4 Hultquist appeared before District Judge Getchen Thilmony and waived his right to an extradition hearing. He was ordered held for pick up by North Dakota authorities. He remained in jail Friday morning, March 6, on the fugitive charge and a charge of fifth-degree controlled substance crime, possession -- not a small amount of marijuana.
