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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Yahoo
Man arrested after multi-county chase in eastern North Dakota
Jun. 18—GRAND FORKS — A Fort Ransom man was arrested after a multi-county chase in eastern North Dakota. The incident occurred shortly before 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 18, when a reckless driver was reported driving a 2010 Nissan Cube on Interstate 29 in northern Cass County. According to a report from the North Dakota Highway Patrol, the vehicle was reported to be swerving, brake-checking and not allowing others to pass. A Highway Patrol trooper responded and found the vehicle near mile marker 111 on I-29. The vehicle failed to stop, according to the Highway Patrol report. It exited at mile marker 118 and then merged back to northbound I-29. At mile marker 130, officers were able to spike the vehicle and stop the driver. Arrested was Kevin Anderson, 53, of Fort Ransom. He is charged with a number of driving-related offenses, including three Class C felonies. Agencies involved were the Highway Patrol, the Traill County Sheriff's Office and the Grand Forks County Sheriff's Office.
USA Today
13-02-2025
- USA Today
Cold-case sleuths, sonar solve 20-year Utah mystery of man who disappeared without a trace
Cold-case sleuths, sonar solve 20-year Utah mystery of man who disappeared without a trace Show Caption Hide Caption Missing hiker found alive in Colorado after 4 days Gina Chase, a 53-year-old hiker from Victoria, Canada, was found safe on Saturday after being missing for four days in southwest Colorado. unbranded - Newsworthy For more than two decades, Kevin Anderson searched for answers. In June of 2004, his brother Steven disappeared without a trace while driving to their parent's cabin in Flaming Gorge, Utah. The family filed a missing person's report but the case went cold, leaving a mystery with few clues and many questions: Had the pressures of life gotten to be too much for the 46-year-old father? Did he decide to just go off the grid? Was he in an accident? Was there foul play? This week, the answers finally came. An examination by Utah's Office of the Medical Examiner and DNA testing from a private lab confirmed that remains found in a car submerged in a Utah reservoir last year belonged to Steven Willard Anderson, police said Tuesday. No foul play is suspected in his death, and "as a result, Anderson's case will be officially closed," the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. Though he expected such an outcome when his brother's car was first uncovered in September, Kevin Anderson said Thursday that DNA confirmation of his brother's identity has provided a sense of peace. "This is closed and the family can have complete, 100% closure, which is an amazing gift, particularly for all of his children," Kevin Anderson told USA TODAY. When his brother first went missing in June 2004, Kevin Anderson said search efforts encountered challenges because he was an adult. His brother's fate remained unknown for year after year. But a "miraculous chain of events" ultimately led the mystery to be solved, he said. The case was featured by local media in 2022, which attracted the attention of Doug Bishop with the United Search Corps, a nonprofit advocacy organization for families of missing people, and Dave Sparks, co-founder of Spark Motors who appeared on the reality show the Diesel Brothers, the sheriff's office said. The men began collaborating with police in April. Bishop said his team used helicopters and mountain crews to identify places where Anderson's vehicle may have gone off the road undetected and narrow down waterways they needed to search. In September, they used SONAR systems that detect submerged objects to locate Anderson's vehicle in Starvation Reservoir, he said. "Those moments are what drives us through everything that we do," Bishop said of the discovery. "We're providing a family and a community and an agency with answers they've been search for for 20 years." Multiple agencies worked together on a complex recovery operation to extract the vehicle and human remains were found inside, police said. Though the discovery of the vehicle and the remains was a major break after 20 years, Bishop said the family was left in limbo until the DNA analysis was complete. The discovery trigged a fresh wave of grief for Kevin Anderson and felt like "teleporting back 20 years later to just the raw emotions of it all." "We were fairly certain it would be his remains, but yet, still a little open, just wanting to have confirmation," he said. Though his team has developed theories about what could've happened in Anderson's final moments as part of the search process, Bishop declined to speculate about the sequence of events that led to his car ending up in the reservoir. "The official 'why' is something we leave in law enforcement's hands, we specialize in where," Bishop said. Exclusive: Woman thought long-lost brother was dead. Then she saw his face in USA TODAY Kevin Anderson said the DNA confirmation has provided "amazing closure" and he urged other families with missing loved ones not to give up hope. The news has allowed the family to go from talking about where Anderson is, to cherishing memories from his life, he said. Steven Willard Anderson was a gifted athlete who excelled at track and field as well as football, had an energetic, outgoing personality, and had worked as a district sales manager and the owner of a dog food company, his brother said. "The open wound that that has been for so long for all the family and the associated issues with that has been really hard," he said. "And I think it's going to take time to heal, but we're heading in the right direction."
