{"id":53466,"date":"2014-09-02T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53466"},"modified":"2014-09-02T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T23:22:19","slug":"judge-finds-bci-agent-in-contempt-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53466","title":{"rendered":"Judge finds BCI agent in contempt of court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELLENDALE, N.D. (AP) &#8211; An Ellendale judge has found a North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent in contempt of court and ordered the state to pay nearly $49,000.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Agents confiscated a pay loader in May from Darrell Schrum&#8217;s shop in Forbes after an investigation found it was stolen. Schrum told authorities he didn&#8217;t know about the theft and said he bought the loader in good faith.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Schrum&#8217;s lawyers argued BCI special agent Arnie Rummel gave the loader away without approval and said he should be held in contempt.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0 Judge Daniel Narum agreed to that Tuesday and ordered the state to reimburse Schrum for $48,840, plus the other costs and fees.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rummel could not be reached Tuesday for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLENDALE, N.D. (AP) &#8211; An Ellendale judge has found a North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent in contempt of court and ordered the state to pay nearly $49,000. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Agents confiscated a pay loader in May from Darrell Schrum&#8217;s shop in Forbes after an investigation found it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53467,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53466\/revisions\/53467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}