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Court news: Former Detroit Lakes business owner must pay $81K restitution
Other court cases include former Detroit Lakes business owner ordered to pay $81K in restution, and a Detroit Lakes man sentenced for swinging a heavy stick at back of man s head.
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Monty Thomas Becker, 43, of rural Frazee, former owner of the now-closed Silver Leaf Home Center, has been sentenced on a felony count of theft by swindle in Becker County District Court. He was ordered to pay more than $81,000 in restitution.
A second count of felony theft by swindle was dropped in a plea agreement reached Oct. 13, 2020.
Other cases in Becker County District Court include animal mistreatment and employee theft.
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Marvin Joseph Bellecourt, 49, of rural Ogema, has had a felony charge of making threats of violence dismissed in Becker County District Court.
According to court records, on Jan. 24, the Becker County Sheriff’s Office received reports of his sending threatening messages to a woman, threatening to kill her, rape her, slice her throat and burn down her house. The woman said he has assaulted in the past, including hitting her over the head with a vacuum cleaner. She said he acts like that when he is on meth. The two have been in an off-and-on relationship for about two years.
Other cases resolved in Becker County District Court include drugs, sexual misconduct, domestic assault.
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Levi Brandin Jerome, 33, of Mahnomen, who is accused of robbing a convenience store in Ogema at gunpoint, has had three felony charges dropped in Becker County District Court because he has been indicted in the same case in federal court.
Jerome was charged in Becker County District Court with felony first-degree aggravated robbery, felony second-degree assault, and felony possession of ammunition or a firearm after being convicted of a crime of violence.
According to court records, at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 11, store surveillance video shows a man entering the M&W Convenience Store in Ogema wearing a tan baseball hat, sunglasses, a red bandana covering his face, a red shirt draped over one shoulder, a black jacket, khaki pants and black gloves, and pointing a high-powered assault-style rifle at the female clerk’s head-torso area.
Court news: Probation extended for Lake Park man convicted of wildfire arson
According to court records, fellow Lake Park firefighters started to become suspicious after a sharp increase in grass fires that happened after Michael Gullard joined the department, throughout April and May of 2014.
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Probation has been extended for one year for a one-time Lake Park firefighter sentenced in 2016 for setting a number of grass fires in 2014.
Michael Lyn Gullard, 41, of Lake Park, appeared Feb. 25, 2016, before Becker County District Judge Joe Evans, who sentenced him to 13 months in prison, stayed five years. He was ordered to serve 25 days in jail and pay a $1,000 fine plus $285 in court fees. He was placed on supervised probation for five years.