Olivia Prondzinski

1 week ago | kttc.com | Olivia Prondzinski

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Another year will soon tick by for two unsolved Rochester homicides, and Rochester Police are urging anyone with information to come forward. On April 17th, 2007, April J. Sorensen was killed in her home in northwest Rochester. A TV technician arrived at the house for a scheduled visit and saw smoke coming through a window. First responders on scene determined the fire was not an accident and found Sorensen brutally murdered in her bedroom.

1 week ago | kttc.com | Olivia Prondzinski

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – A preliminary investigation report shares more details into what led up to a Rochester plane crash in March. On the evening March 9, a small plane crashed near the Oak Summit Golf Course in the woods on private property. The pilot was the only passenger and sustained minor injuries. According to the preliminary report, the pilot reported during the initial climb, about 650 feet above the ground, the engine lost power.

1 week ago | kttc.com | Olivia Prondzinski

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – A Rochester man has pleaded guilty to his connection in a woman’s 2022 suspicious death. On May 29th, 2022, Timothy Loftus, 43, provided Tia Arleth, 28, with controlled substances that led to her death. According to court documents, Loftus then hid Arleth’s body in a rural Olmsted County field. She wasn’t found until June 17th, 2022. Arleth’s body was wrapped in a tarp and concealed with rope and duct tape.

2 weeks ago | kttc.com | Olivia Prondzinski

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KTTC) – A Rochester man is accused of being affiliated with a drug trafficking organization and conspiracy to traffic narcotics from Mexico. A federal grand jury has recently returned several indictments against five members of the organization affiliated with Sureños. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sureños is a transnational criminal street gang with hundreds of cliques around the country.

2 weeks ago | kttc.com | Olivia Prondzinski

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – State prosecutors are pushing back on former Minnesota state trooper Shane Roper’s request to dismiss eight of nine criminal charges against him. Roper was involved in a deadly crash near Apache Mall in May 2024 that killed Olivia Flores, 18. An investigation found Roper was traveling at high speeds in his squad car without his emergency lights or sirens on. Roper is charged with criminal vehicular homicide and manslaughter among other various charges.