HISTORY OF THE MINNEAPOLIS DIVISION
 Before 1940
 Apr 1, 1917 The Bureau of Investigation, as the FBI was then known, was maintaining a field division in St. Paul, Minnesota. The St. Paul Division, which also covered investigations for Minneapolis, was headed by Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Campbell. The Division also employed an additional Special Agent (SA), two special employees, and one confidential employee. 
 Jan 12, 1929
The Minneapolis Division had been established and Werner Hanni was serving as the SAC. The Division, which was located in Room 305 of that city's Federal Building, was responsible for conducting federal investigations in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the Western Judicial District of Wisconsin. At that time, seven Special Agents were serving in the Minneapolis Division.

 Photo of Werner Hanni, SAC
Werner Hanni, SAC
1940s
 Sep 8, 1941 The Minneapolis Division had been closed, and the St. Paul Division was handling 880 pending investigations with a Special Agent (SA) staff of 16.
 Dec 2, 1942
The Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Saint Paul, was Marion B. Rhodes.

Photograph of Marion B Rhodes
Marion B. Rhodes, SAC
 Mar 11, 1944 The address of the St. Paul Division was 404 New York Building, Sixth and Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
 Photograph of FBI Clerk in Sioux Falls South Dakota 1945
Sioux Falls, South Dakota (circa 1945)
 Sep 27, 1946 FBI personnel assigned to the Headquarters location of the St. Paul Division totaled 66.
 Photograph of Special Agents in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Special Agents, Saint Paul (circa 1946)
 Aug 31, 1949 The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that burglars forced their way into one office and attempted to enter six others in the New York Building, which housed the St. Paul Division.
 Sep 24, 1949 The St. Paul Division closed and was transferred and renamed the Minneapolis Division. The new Division began occupying office space at 419 North American Life and Casualty Building, 1750 Hennepin Avenue.
 Photograph of FBI Agents in Sioux Falls South Dakota 1945
FBI employees in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (circa 1945)
 1950s
 Jun 25, 1950 Plans were being made for the construction of a new Federal Courts Building in Minneapolis.
 Sep 1951 W. G. Banister became the Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Minneapolis.
 Oct 29, 1951 Consideration was being given to reopening an FBI field division in Aberdeen, South Dakota. At the time, the Minneapolis Division was handling 1,886 pending investigations. Investigations and leads in North and South Dakota totaled 488. The Division was operating the following Resident Agencies (RA), staffed by a total of 11 Special Agents (SAs), in North and South Dakota: Bismarck/Minot, North Dakota; Huron, South Dakota; Fargo, North Dakota; Rapid City, South Dakota; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
 Mar 28, 1952 The Minneapolis Division was operating RAs in the Minnesota cities of Duluth and Mankato.
 Aug 11, 1952 FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) approved the establishment of a St. Paul RA, to be staffed by seven SAs.
 Jan 27, 1953 The Sioux Falls, St. Paul, and Duluth RAs were located in the Federal Buildings in those cities. The Mankato, Minot, Rapid City, and Grand Forks RAs were housed in those cities' U.S. Post Office Buildings.
 Jun 30, 1953 The Minneapolis Division had a total of 2,230 pending investigations. During the month of June, the Division had closed 958 investigative matters.
 Aug 12, 1953 A St. Cloud, Minnesota, RA was in operation.
 Oct 20, 1953 The Minneapolis Division was maintaining a Minot RA.
 Dec 7, 1953 The Minneapolis Division was operating an RA in Bemidji, Minnesota.
 Feb 1954 C. B. Howard was named SAC, Minneapolis.
 Nov 12, 1954 The Fargo and Bismarck RAs were located in those cities' respective Post Office Buildings.
 Apr 27, 1955 The Aberdeen RA was located in that city's Federal Building.
 Nov 19, 1955 The Minneapolis Division relocated to new office space on the fourth and fifth floors of the five-story WCCO Building. Prior to being occupied by the Division, the two-floor FBI office facility, which previously had been an auditorium, had undergone extensive renovations.
 Sep 1957 James E. Milnes was appointed SAC, Minneapolis.
 Apr 10, 1958 Among the Minneapolis Division's RAs were: Duluth, St. Cloud, Willmar, Rochester and St. Paul, Minnesota; Fargo, Bismarck, Minot, Williston, and Grand Forks, North Dakota; and Aberdeen, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
 Apr 25, 1958 An FBIHQ report shows that, during Fiscal Year (FY) 1957, the Minneapolis Division had an average pending workload of 611 criminal, 212 security, and 518 applicant and other investigations. During the year, the Division was staffed by an average of 74 SAs and 41 support employees.
May 23, 1958 The Williston, North Dakota, RA had been established and was located in Room 203 of the American State Bank Building in that city.
Jun 1, 1958 The Mankato, Minnesota, RA was closed and its territory was reallocated to the Willmar, Sioux Falls, and Rochester, Minnesota, RAs.
Aug 29, 1958 Plans were being made to relocate the Minneapolis Division to the fourth floor of the proposed new U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building in that city.
 Oct 1958  William H. Williams began serving as SAC, Minneapolis.
 Dec 31, 1959 The Bemidji, Minnesota RA had been closed.
 1960s
 Nov 10, 1960 An FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) report shows that, during FY 1960, the Minneapolis Division handled an average pending caseload of 595 criminal, 268 security, and 379 applicant and other matters. During the year, the Division was staffed by an average of 71 Special Agents (SAs) and 40 support employees.
 Jun 23, 1961 The Minneapolis Division became operational in its new office space at 392 Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 110 South Fourth Street. 
 Jan 18, 1962 An FBIHQ report shows that, during FY 1961, the Minneapolis Division handled an average pending caseload of 699 criminal, 289 security, and 317 applicant and other investigations with an average of 68 SAs and 41 support employees assigned to the Division during the year.
 Feb 7, 1962  he Minneapolis Division was maintaining the following RAs: Duluth, Minnesota; Fargo, North Dakota; Rochester, Minnesota; Grand Forks, North Dakota; St. Cloud, Minnesota; Minot, North Dakota; St. Paul, Minnesota; Aberdeen, South Dakota; Willmar, Minnesota; Rapid City, South Dakota; Bismarck, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 
 Apr 12, 1962 The Minneapolis Division held an open house, which was attended by 431 people. Invitations had been extended to police officials, judges, U.S. Attorneys, contacts and business associates of the Special Agent in Charge (SAC), and relatives of employees. 
 Oct 1962 Richard G. Held was designated SAC, Minneapolis. 
 Photo of Richard G. Held, SAC
Richard G. Held, SAC
 Nov 24, 1964   An FBIHQ report shows that, during FY 1964, the Minneapolis Division handled an average pending caseload of 1,185 criminal, 309 security, and 374 applicant and other investigative matters with an average of 70 SAs and 45 support employees assigned to the Division. 
 Apr 16, 1965  President Lyndon B. Johnson declared 49 counties in Minnesota emergency disaster areas due to rampaging flood waters from the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. 
 May 6, 1965  Several tornadoes struck the Minneapolis area that night causing 11 deaths, numerous injuries, and considerable property damage. The Division's Headquarters facility was not affected, and no Division employees were injured, although the homes of several employees were damaged extensively.
 Dec 12, 1967  The St. Paul Resident Agency (RA) moved from the Old Federal Courts Building to Rooms 538-540 of the new Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 316 Robert Street.
 Jan 29, 1968  The Federal Telecommunications System became operational in the Minneapolis Division.
 1970s
 Nov 5, 1970 The Minneapolis Division was maintaining the following RAs: Duluth, Minnesota; Fargo, North Dakota; Rochester, Minnesota; Grand Forks, North Dakota; St. Cloud, Minnesota; Minot, North Dakota; St. Paul, Minnesota; Aberdeen, South Dakota; Willmar, Minnesota; Rapid City, South Dakota; Bismarck, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Bemidji, Minnesota.
 Photo of Firearms wall circa 1970
Firearms Wall (circa 1970)
Dec 2, 1971  An FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) report shows that, in FY 1971, the Minneapolis Division handled an average pending workload of 1,997 criminal, 650 security, and 161 applicant and other investigations with an average of 91 Special Agents (SAs) and 57 support employees assigned to the Division.
Mar 16, 1972  The St. Paul Resident Agency (RA) had been closed, and the Agents assigned to the RA returned to Headquarters City.
 Jun 9, 1972  A torrential rain of over 10 inches in the Black Hills vicinity of Rapid City caused an 8-foot wall of water to descend on Rapid City along Rapid Creek. This caused the dam at Canyon Lake on the western edge of Rapid City to break, resulting in extensive loss of life and damage to homes and businesses. As of 6/10/72, 105 persons were known to have been killed, and as many as 800 people were reported missing. Declared a disaster area by federal, state, and local authorities, the area was without utilities and the water supply was feared to have been contaminated. State and local authorities requested the assistance of the FBI Disaster Squad in identifying deceased victims of the flood.
 Dec 4, 1972 FBIHQ authorized the reopening of the St. Paul RA, which was to be located in Room 670 of the Federal Courts Building, 316 Robert Street.
Jul 27, 1972 Virginia Piper Abduction. Virginia Piper, wife of investment banker Harry C. Piper Jr., was abducted from her home in Orono by two masked gunmen. After paying a million dollar ransom, believed to be the largest in U.S. history, she was found alive 48 hours later, handcuffed and chained to a tree in woods near Duluth. Two suspects were convicted in 1977, but an appeals court overturned the verdict and the suspects were acquitted on retrial. 
 
Mrs. Piper is found unharmed

Mrs. Piper is found unharmed
Husband pays $1-million ransom
by Bob Lundegaard, Staff Writer
July 30, 1972
Star Tribune    (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota)


Mrs. Harry C. Piper Jr was found unharmed, but "dirty and rained on," chained to a tree in the Fond du Lac State Forest area near Duluth, Minn., about noon Saturday. A $1-million ransom was paid to her kidnappers Friday night.

She was returned by airplane to her estate in Orono yesterday afternoon. A family friend, C. Morgan Aldrich, Jr. said "she is tired but otherwise there are no injuries."

Aldrich said the men who kidnaped the 49-year-old wife of the board chairman of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood on Thursday afternoon first contacted the family at 9:30 p.m. Friday.

Piper himself delivered the ransom -- $1 million in $20 bills -- at 11:25 p.m. Friday, Aldrich said. He refused to say where the money was delivered or to give other details of the kidnaping.

The $1 million in ransom was the largest ever paid to kidnappers -- almost double the previous high of $600,000 delivered to the abductors of 6-year-old Bobby Greelease in 1953 in Missouri.

Richard G. Held, agent in charge of the Minneapolis FBI office, said FBI agents found Mrs. Piper through an anonymous call from a "third party" who had been contacted by another anonymous caller.

He said she was found in a remote part of the forest and "she appeared to have been there some time" because she was "real dirty and "rained-on."

John Morrison, the husband of Mrs. Piper's sister, said that Mrs. Piper "was chained to a tree on and off for two days and a night in a heavily wooded wilderness" where it was often "wet and rainy."

Held refused to say what leads the FBI had on the identity of her abductors -- two masked men described as "heavy-set and tough-looking." The men walked into her home, tied up two housekeepers and fled in a car -- possibly two cars -- shortly after noon Thursday.

Mrs. Piper was unavailable for comment on her 48-hour ordeal, but Aldrich said there was no evidence that she had been drugged. In a public plea broadcast yesterday, the family had asked anyone seeing a "drugged or dazed" silver-haired woman to contact the FBI.

Orono police Chief Ross said that a family friend who is a doctor had seen her and reported that her health was fine. Ross said she was wearing the same clothes she was wearing when kidnaped -- bright plaid slacks, pinkish-green in color, and a turtlenecked long-sleeved blouse of dark color with a floral pattern.

Morrison said the family was "overjoyed and relieved." The agreement with the kidnapers specified that she was to be released yesterday morning.

Copyright 1972 Star Tribune.
Republished here with the permission of the Star Tribune.
No further republication or redistribution is permitted
without the express approval of the Star Tribune.
 Feb 1973 Joseph J. Trimbach became the Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Minneapolis.
 Photo of SAC Joseph J. Trimbach
Joseph J. Trimbach, SAC
 Nov 13, 1973 Plans were being made to establish a Pierre RA in Rooms 368 and 368A of the Pierre, South Dakota, Federal Building.
 Dec 21, 1973 The Wounded Knee trial of American Indian Movement leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks was scheduled to begin in St. Paul on 1/8/74. It was estimated that the trial would last from four to six months.
 Dec 24, 1974 An FBIHQ report shows that, during FY 1974, the Minneapolis Division was handling an average of 2,573 criminal, 1,160 security, and 141 applicant and other investigations with a staff comprised of an average of 118 SAs and 71 support employees.
 Jun 26, 1975 Leonard Peltier Case / RESMURS. Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams were killed while attempting to serve arrest warrants for robbery and assault with a dangerous weapon on the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. 
 Photo of Jack R. ColerPhoto of Ronald A. Williams
Jack R. Coler / Ronald A. Williams

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 Jul 1975 William A. Meinke was named SAC, Minneapolis.
 Feb 27, 1976 Due to an increased workload involving South Dakota Indian Reservations, FBIHQ authorized the Minneapolis Division to establish a "mini" office at Rapid City on a six-month trial basis. The staff would consist of an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC), 25 SAs, and 11 support employees.
 Sep 21, 1976 The SAC, Minneapolis, proposed converting the Rapid City "mini" office, which included the Pierre RA, into a field division covering North and South Dakota. FBIHQ subsequently recommended that the "mini" office be continued for an additional year and that the ASAC assigned there be given the title of Inspector to reinforce to other agencies his investigative authority over all of South Dakota.
 Nov 29, 1976 John E. Otto reported to the Minneapolis Division as SAC.
 Photo of John E. Otto, SAC
John E. Otto, SAC
 Aug 25, 1977 Special Agents Trenwith S. Basford and Mark A. Kirkland were killed in northern Minnesota as the result of an airplane crash into Dewey Lake. SA Basford was piloting his personally owned plane, which had been approved for official use. The two Agents were assisting Agents of the Duluth RA in conducting an aerial surveillance when the crash occurred. At the time of his death, SA Basford was 60 years old and had served over 35 years in the FBI. SA Kirkland was 33 years of age.
 Photo of Trenwith S. BasfordPhoto of Mark A. Kirkland
Trenwith S. Basford / Mark A. Kirkland
 

Two Minneapolis FBI Agents Minnesota Map
killed on duty in airplane crash
by Tom Davies
Staff Writer
August 27, 1977.
Star Tribune
(Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota)

"It was cold and very rainy, cloudy and blowing," another FBI agent who had been in the area Thursday said, "like a November rain that you expect to turn into snow at any minute."

FBI agents Trenwith Basford and Mark Kirkland flew into that weather Thursday afternoon in northern Minnesota. Basford, known as a very conservative pilot, apparently tried to bring the plane down on Dewey Lake, about six miles north of Chisholm.

On the third try, the plane's single engine stalled and the Cessna 172 float plane turned over on its back and crashed into the water about 50 feet from shore. Basford, 60, and Kirkland, 33, were killed instantly.

The agents, FBI spokesmen said Friday, were on routine business at the time, helping Duluth authorities in a number of cases. There is no indication of foul play, the spokesmen said, just bad weather.

Basford had just celebrated his 35th year with the FBI and faced mandatory retirement in December. Kirkland had been an agent for five years and had worked as a clerk in the agency for eight years before that.

Basford will be buried in Austin, Minn. Kirkland will be buried in Centerville, Utah. Funerals for both will be in the Minneapolis area on Monday -- Basford's at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Kirkland's at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Douglas Dr. and 28th Av. N.

As agents, both men had been involved with major FBI cases in the area during their time here -- Basford since 1956 and Kirkland since 1973. Both had worked on the Piper kidnaping case, the siege of Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973 and the murder of two FBI agents in Oglala, S.D., in 1975.

The plane the agents were in Thursday belonged to Basford, who used it to fly to his island home on a Canadian lake, FBI official Art Sullivan said Basford often used the plane on FBI business, and during the Wounded Knee occupation had operated a ferry service for agents from Pine Ridge to Wounded Knee.

"Basford was a very conservative pilot," Sullivan said. "Not given to taking any chances. Apparently he didn't like the weather and decided to bring the plane down."

Federal Aviation Agency officials said it appeared that Basford was trying to reach Sturgeon Lake, about 15 miles north of Chisholm, but decided to try to land in the smaller Dewey Lake. St. Louis County sheriff's officers recovered the agent's bodies, still strapped in their seats, about 8 p.m. Thursday. Basford had joined the FBI in 1942 and "worked his entire career in what we call criminal matters, no security cases," Sullivan said. A graduate of the University of Minnesota law school, Basford had recently been working on the FBI's policies regarding the Freedom of Information Act.

"He was a very mature agent," Sullivan said. "You could picture him in a board room in New York -- but he chose the FBI."

Basford was raised in south Minneapolis, Sullivan said. Before coming to Minneapolis as an agent in 1956 he had also worked for the FBI in Newark, Baltimore, and New York City.

Kirkland was born in California, where he joined the FBI as a clerk in 1964. For the next eight years he worked as a clerk and finished his college education. In 1972 he became an agent, serving in Oklahoma City before coming to Minneapolis.

Sullivan said both men's families should be well taken care of with an agents' fund that will pay both families $20,000 and insurance claims -- doubled because of accidental death -- that should be worth far more than that.

Basford is survived by his wife, Letitia, and two grown sons. Kirkland is survived by his wife, Julia, and their two sons, ages 1 and 2. Kirkland also has a daughter by a previous marriage.

It wasn't clear yesterday if FBI Director Clarence Kelley would attend the agents' funerals. He had attended the funerals of Agents Ron Williams and Jack Coler, killed in June 1975 in Oglala.

Williams and Coler also were based in the Minneapolis office. The deaths of Basford and Kirkland mean that the last four FBI agents to be killed in the line of duty were based here.

Copyright 1972 Star Tribune.
Republished here with the permission of the Star Tribune.
No further republication or redistribution is permitted
without the express approval of the Star Tribune. 
 Mar 1978 David A. Brumble was appointed SAC, Minneapolis.
May 18, 1978
 The SAC, Minneapolis, recommended that the "mini" office at Rapid City, South Dakota, be again designated as an RA. FBIHQ approved that recommendation on 7/3/78.
 Jul 1978 The Minneapolis Division was maintaining the following RAs: Duluth, Minnesota; Fargo, North Dakota; Rochester, Minnesota; Grand Forks, North Dakota; St. Cloud, Minnesota; Minot, North Dakota; St. Paul, Minnesota; Aberdeen, South Dakota; Willmar, Minnesota; Rapid City, South Dakota; Bismarck, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Bemidji, Minnesota; Pierre, South Dakota.
 Jul 1979  T. M. Gardner began serving as SAC, Minneapolis.
 1980s
 Jan 19, 1980 FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) had authorized the Minneapolis Division to relocate and expand its Headquarters facility on the third floor of the Federal Building, 110 South Fourth Street.
 Nov 1980 Richard H. Blay was designated Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Minneapolis.
 Photo of SAC Richard H. Blay
Richard H. Blay, SAC
 Aug 1985 Lawrence G. Lawler became the SAC, Minneapolis.
 Photo of Lawrence G. Lawler, SAC
Lawrence G. Lawler, SAC
 Feb 18, 1986 Authorization had been granted to reopen the previously closed St. Cloud Resident Agency (RA).
 Nov 13, 1987 FBIHQ authorized the Minneapolis Division to close the Willmar RA and open a new RA in Mankato, Minnesota. The Willmar RA was closed on 4/28/88.
 Jul 1988 Jeffrey J. Jamar was named SAC, Minneapolis.
 Photo of Jeffery J. Jamar, SAC
Jeffery J. Jamar, SAC
 1990s
 Mar 31, 1991 The Minneapolis Division had recently relocated from the Federal Building to commercial space in Suite 1100, 111 Washington Avenue South.
 Dec 1991 Nicholas V. O'Hara became the Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Minneapolis.
 Photo of Nicholas V. O'Hara, SAC
Nicholas V. O'Hara, SAC
 Jun 4, 1992 The Minneapolis Division established the Minnesota Fugitive Task Force (MFTF) under the auspices of the FBI's Safe Streets Program. This interagency joint task force was staffed with investigators representing all major Minneapolis metropolitan area law enforcement agencies. During its first year of inception, the task force was responsible for the arrest and/or location of over 300 violent fugitives. By April of 2003, the MFTF was responsible for arresting and locating over 1750 fugitives.
 Apr 1994 Herbert L. Collins, Jr., was designated SAC.
 Photo of Herbert L. Collins, Jr., SAC
Herbert L. Collins, Jr., SAC
 Oct 1995 Roger H. Wheeler began serving as SAC.
 Photo of Roger H. Wheeler, SAC
Roger H. Wheeler, SAC
 Jun 12, 1997 Andrew Phillip Cunanan. "Spree-killer" Andrew Phillip Cunanan was named to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List" after being suspected of murdering four men-- two in the Twin Cities area, one in Chicago, and one in Pennsville, New Jersey. Andrew Cunanan was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot on 7/23/97 after law enforcement authorities closed in on him hiding in a Miami houseboat. A few days prior, Cunanan was believed to have shot and killed his fifth victim, fashion designer Gianni Versaci.
 Wanted poster of Andrew Phillip Cunanan - deceased
 Oct 14, 1997 6-0- Tre Crips Arson. 21 people involved with the drug distribution ring run by the "6-0-Tre Crips" street gang in St. Paul were arrested and/or charged. On 8/5/98 five key members of the gang were convicted of racketeering charges involving not only large-scale drug trafficking but also six murders including the 1994 arson murders of the five children of the Coppage family, ages 2 to 11. Five young children of the Coppage family died in a fire on February 28, 1994, on St. Paul's East side. This fire was set by members of the older brother's gang which mistakenly believed the brother had broken the gang's code of silence.
 Front of Coppage family home - aftermath of fire
Coppage family home engulfed in flames
 Oct 18, 1997 Minneapolis Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Michael Waldner died of an apparent heart attack while temporarily assigned to assist with the inspection of the Miami Division.
 Michael Waldner, ASAC
Michael Waldner, ASAC
 Aug 16, 1999 Deputy Assistant Director Douglas J. Domin is transferred from the Criminal Justice Information Services Division in West Virginia to the Minneapolis Office as the new SAC.
 Douglas J. Domin, SAC
Douglas J. Domin, SAC
 Oct 13, 1999 Kyle Kenneth Bell escaped from a prison transport bus in New Mexico while being moved to a maximum security prison in Oregon. Bell had been convicted about two months prior to this escape of killing 11 year old Jeanna North in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1993, and he was also serving a 30 year prior sentence for molesting two other young girls. Eighty-eight days later, on January 9, 2000, after following up on hundreds of leads, law enforcement authorities, including the FBI, recaptured Kyle Bell at an apartment in Dallas. He had been recognized by a viewer of "America's Most Wanted" and became the 596th person to be caught through the television program.
 Oct 25, 1999 Members of the Minneapolis Division's Evidence Response Team responded to the scene of the crash of a Lear jet which resulted in the deaths of professional golfer Payne Stewart and five other passengers. The actual site was a pasture located a few miles to the east of Mina, North Dakota, (near Aberdeen, South Dakota). The team worked for several days under the direction of a forensic specialist from the National Transportation Safety Board assisting with the recovery and identification of human remains, personal effects and jet parts. 
 November 1999 The Minneapolis Division had approximately 1400 pending investigations assigned. It is noted that the investigations ranged over 300 classifications that were representative of the FBI's wide investigative jurisdiction. The Division's personnel consisted of about 115 Special Agents and 80 other FBI employees.
 2000s
 May, 2000 The SAC of the Minneapolis Division released a report accounting for Native American deaths on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Click here to view the report.
 Aug 26, 2000 A Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad train consisting of four locomotives and fifty five cars loaded with grain, was diverted to a side track and plowed into parked rail cars near Brookings, South Dakota, killing the train's conductor and seriously injuring the train engineer. Three days later, 20 year old Andrew Goltz was arrested by the FBI and charged with willful derailment or damage to a train involved in interstate commerce.
 Photo of train wreck - front engine entirely smashed in
 Nov 2000 The Minneapolis Division has approximately 1400 pending investigations assigned. It is noted that the investigations range over 300 classifications that are representative of the FBI's wide investigative jurisdiction. The Division's personnel consists of about 115 Special Agents and 80 other FBI employees. 
 Mar 17, 2001 Hopeton Eric Brown. On March 17, 2001, Hopeton Eric Brown was placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. Brown was sought for his involvement in drug-related activities, as well as for the murder of a man and the attempted murder of a woman in Minnesota in 1997. Jamaican authorities also charged Brown with two other murders committed in January, 2001, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Hopeton Eric Brown was the 462nd person to be placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list and the 7th fugitive wanted by Minneapolis to make the list. He was profiled twice on Fox TV's America's Most Wanted.
 Ten Most Wanted poster of Hopeton Eric Brown
 Dec 3, 2001 D. Strebel Pierce began serving as SAC of the Minneapolis Division.
 
D. Strebel Pierce, SAC
 


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