
C.S. Hagen
Journalist at The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
Journalist at Forum Communications
Journalist at The Forum, InForum, photographer, an old China hand.
Articles
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4 days ago |
inforum.com | C.S. Hagen
HOLY CROSS TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Jamie Lynn Dennis-Gianakos slowed the Pontiac as she entered the intersection of County Road 60 and Highway 75 in Clay County, Minnesota. The night sky was dark as Red River Valley earth, but a sign for a rural Haunted Farm pointed the way. Another mile and she’d reach the lone, tumbledown farmstead, the last place she saw Annemarie Camp on May 1, 1997, a babysitter to her two daughters and maid of honor at her Valentine’s Day wedding to Michael Gianakos.
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1 week ago |
inforum.com | C.S. Hagen
While many in North Dakota and Minnesota were just hearing about methamphetamine in 1999, Michael Gamboa began a drug ring that covered the state of North Dakota, and parts of Minnesota, pushing 400 pounds or about $18 million worth into people’s lungs and bloodstreams. He likened his rise from the underworld to the life of being a king, claiming ownership of Grand Forks, North Dakota, and he ruled his dealers with the gun, sometimes automatic rifles, while paying them mostly with meth.
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3 weeks ago |
pinejournal.com | C.S. Hagen
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3 weeks ago |
postbulletin.com | C.S. Hagen
FARGO, ND — As kingpin of the largest methamphetamine ring in the state, Michael Gamboa lived by a twisted criminal code. The 27-year-old high school dropout enforced loyalty with violence. He expected silence from his dealers and yet he had been a confidential informant for the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation, according to paperbound trial transcripts available only at the Quentin N. Burdick U.S. Courthouse.
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3 weeks ago |
postbulletin.com | C.S. Hagen
FARGO, ND — Early during the first morning of North Dakota's largest drug trafficking trial to date, the prosecutor, the defense attorney and the federal judge met behind closed doors on Dec. 31, 2002.
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