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Man Busted Trying to Light Cigarette With Gas Station Pump

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Skyler Whitebull

BISMARCK, North Dakota — Put the pump down.

A North Dakota man was busted after cops say they spotted him trying to light a cigarette using the nozzle of a gas pump.

Skyler Beau Whitebull, 29, of Cannon Ball was stumbling around in the Bismarck gas station parking lot when cops ordered him to put the nozzle down. He allegedly refused and resisted when cops attempted to wrestle the pump away from him and then struck a fighting pose.

Officers then forced him to the ground. He allegedly continued fighting with cops as they tried to slap cuffs on him, the Bismarck Tribune reported.

A search of Whitebull’s bag revealed several small, zippered bags with methamphetamine residue, cops said. He was charged with misdemeanor meth possession and resisting arrest.

 

Couple Found With Missing Pregnant Woman’s Baby Charged With Murder

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Fargo Police Chief David Todd holds a press briefing after Savanna Greywind’s body was found Sunday

FARGO, North Dakota — A couple who were found with a newborn believed to belong to a missing pregnant woman have been charged with murder after her body was found in a river.

Brooke Lynn Crews, 38, and William Henry Hoehn, 32, were both held on $2 million bail in the death of Savanna Marie Greywind, who was eight-months pregnant when she was last seen alive in their Fargo apartment just over a week ago.

The 22-year-old Greywind’s body was found Sunday evening by kayakers in the Red River, wrapped in plastic and duct tape and snagged on a log. Investigators  said they are searching an abandoned farm nearby.

“Savanna was the victim of a cruel and vicious act of depravity,” Fargo Police Chief David Todd said. “Our hearts are heavy as we mourn the loss of this young lady.”

Savanna Greywind was eight-months pregnant when she was last seen

Authorities have said the couple gave investigators conflicting accounts of how the newborn baby girl wound up in their apartment. They had been charged last week with kidnapping, but have now been charged with murder as well.

According to a criminal complaint, Hoehn said he came home on Aug. 19 to finds Crews with a baby and that she was cleaning up blood from the bathroom floor.

“This is our baby, this is our family,” he said she told him.

Hoehn (l) and Crews have been charged with killing Greywind

He admitted he helped dispose of garbage bags filled with bloody towels and his own bloody shoes.

Crews claimed that she had called Greywind to her apartment that night and told her how to self-induce birth by breaking her own water. She said that Greywind returned two days later and gave Crews the child.

Police declined to discuss whether there was any evidence that Greywind had undergone a Caesarean section or if labor had been induced.

The child is in the custody of children’s services and is in good health, officials have said.

 

Missing Pregnant Woman’s Neighbors Charged After Baby Found in Their Home

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Savanna Greywind was eight-months pregnant when she was last seen

FARGO, North Dakota — The hunt for a missing pregnant woman took a chilling turn when investigators discovered a newborn infant in a neighbor’s apartment where she was last seen.

Police in Fargo, North Dakota say they believe the baby belonged to 22-year-old Savanna Marie Greywind, who was eight-months pregnant when she was reported missing on Saturday.

They have charged the neighbors, Brooke Lynn Crews, 38, and William Henry Hoehn, 32, with kidnapping. Greywind had last been seen in the couple’s apartment on Saturday having gone there to discuss a sewing project.

Initially, Crews and Hoehn said Greywind had left their apartment after completing the project, but after the baby had been discovered there days later, the pair refused to answer detectives’ questions and lawyered up, police said.

Since Greywind’s disappearance, detectives have conducted numerous searches in the area of her home, and had even checked Crews and Hoehn’s apartment three times, police said.

But after getting a tip, police went back to the apartment on Thursday afternoon and found the newborn infant there. The child appeared to be in good health and was taken to a local hospital.

Hoehn (l) and Crews refused to answer questions after the baby was found in their home

Police said after Crews and Hoehn refused to answer any more questions about how they got the baby and about Greywind’s whereabouts, they were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

Investigators conducted a full forensic examination of the couple’s apartment for traces of Greywind.

In 2012, Hoehn pleaded guilty to fracturing his infant son’s skull. The child recovered.

Cops Turn Fire Hoses on Pipeline Protesters in Escalating Clash

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Hundreds clashed with cops

Hundreds clashed with cops

CANNON BALL, North Dakota — Protesters opposed to an oil pipeline project were sprayed with water from fire hoses in frigid temperatures after police say officers were pelted by flaming logs, rocks and other projectiles in a furious clash on a bridge.

The violent confrontation was the latest in a months-long protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline, which has pitted hundreds of Native American and environmental activists who say the $3.7 billion project threatens water resources against police guarding construction of the pipeline.

The standoff came to a head late Sunday, when police say hundreds of protesters forced their way onto the Backwater Bridge, which had been closed after numerous cars were burned on it in a protest in October that rendered it possibly unsafe.

As protesters moved to remove the burned out cars, police say numerous fires were set and debris hurled at cops manning a barricade on one edge of the bridge. Cops responded by firing tear gas and using hoses intended to put out the fires to repel protesters despite below-freezing temperatures..

“We are just not going to let people and protesters in large groups come in and threaten officers,” said Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier. “In this circumstance it was the best option we had at that point.”

Protesters said police also fired rubber bullets at them. One activist was airlifted to Minneapolis after an explosion severely mangled her arm. Protesters said they believe the woman was wounded by a police concussion grenade, but cops denied being responsible and said it was possible the explosion was caused by an incendiary device intended to be thrown at police.

One protester was arrested while trying to push through the police barricade, Kirchmeier said, and 16 others were arrested the following morning. One officer was hospitalized after being struck in the head by a projectile, Kirchmeier said.

Protest leaders have said the closure of the bridge has been a point of frustration for weeks as many believed it is intended solely to keep demonstrators away from the pipeline construction zone.

“Folks have a right to be on a public road,” Dallas Goldtooth, of the Indigenous Environmental Network told the Bismarck Tribune. “It’s absurd that people who’ve been trying to take down the barricade now have their lives at risk.”

Kirchmeier said the bridge would not reopened until engineers had deemed it safe, which could not happen while the protests were ongoing nearby.

Completion of the pipeline, set to run approximately 1,200 miles from North Dakota to Illinois, was delayed in September so federal authorities could re-examine permits required by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Plans called for the pipeline to pass under Lake Oahe, a federally owned water source, and to skirt the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation by about half a mile. Most of the construction has otherwise been finished.

The Standing Rock tribe and environmental activists say the project would threaten water supplies and sacred Native American sites and ultimately contribute to climate change.