Crime

28-year-old man sentenced to federal prison for drugs and firearms

15 people were killed at an elementary school in Texas

A Pine Ridge man has been found guilty of eight federal charges.

Court rules there doesn't have to be an actual victim for a sex crime conviction.

A former Rapid City police officer stands accused of stealing petty cash while working as a school liaison officer.

Federal jury found a Sioux Falls man guilty for heroin and fentanyl distribution.

A Rapid City woman sentenced to 20 years in Federal Prison

Rapid City police are reporting an increase in car burglaries, where sometimes a firearm is stolen. Usually that weapon isn't seen again until it's used in another crime.

That's 124 people per day, and demonstrates a 35% increase in gun related homicide. Gun violence is the leading cause for death in children, teens and young adults 25 and younger. Where they were 10 times more likely to die because of a firearm than COVID-19.

Meade County sheriff's deputies arrest two juveniles and recover stolen vehicles and guns.

Rapid City Police say an employee told them a man came up to the register with his hands in his pockets and demanded money. When the clerk did not do so, the man left. No more than 10 minutes later, police were dispatched to the Common Cents on Mount Rushmore Road for a similar report of a man with his hands in his pockets demanding money at the register. That time, the man said he had a gun, and the clerk complied with his demands.

Oglala Sioux Tribe police search for suspects after a child is shot and killed.

The South Dakota attorney general office absolves police in shooting of a Rapid City man during a burglary.

Quincy Bear Robe pleads not guilty in fatal shooting

44-year old Jason Sharp was originally charged with second degree murder but pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter in March.

Rapid City police are investigating a deadly shooting that happened during an argument over a debt.

An active police presence on the scene at the Bandido's clubhouse.

Driver sentenced for crash that killed a Cherry Creek woman last year.

A minimum-security inmate fails to return to his housing unit after work release job.

Rosebud Sioux Tribal Treasurer Stephen Denoyer III faces criminal charges in Oglala Sioux Tribal court.

In the early morning of April 21, police were called to a residence on the 300 block of East Centennial Street for a report of vehicle burglary.

Five people pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in the death of 16-year-old Louis Sandoval.

Federal murder trial ends with acquittal of Pine Ridge men.

Pennington County grand jury indicts suspect in shooting following an argument in a Rapid City hotel room.

South Dakota state investigators have identified the man who died in a police shooting in Rapid City last month.

The U.S. Marshals Service was serving a warrant at a restaurant when the man allegedly barricaded himself in a back room with a gun.

A Pennington County Grand Jury has now indicted 19-year old Quincy Bear Robe on a charge of second degree murder and commission of a felony with a firearm.

20-year old Jonnie Fineran pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the stabbing death of Thomas Sitting Bear in Manderson in July of 2020.

Tens of thousands of dollars worth of methamphetamine are off the streets following a traffic stop on Interstate 29 in northeast South Dakota.

Myron Blaine Pourier has died from wounds following the March 19 shooting at the Grand Gateway Hotel.