The North Dakota Peace Officer Standards and Training Board is putting several complaints against Divide County deputies on hold while the underlying criminal cases work their way through the courts.
In December, Douglas James, who lives in Crosby, filed a complaint with the POST board claiming Divide County Sheriff Lauren Throntveit was intoxicated while investigating a shooting earlier this year. James was charged with attempted murder, a class A felony, after a shooting Oct. 31 in Noonan.
Douglas James’ son, Mitchell James, and Taelor Brown, who lives with Mitchell James, have also filed a complaint with the POST board, claiming Divide County Sheriff Department Sgt. Coby Hubble used excessive force when searching their home in relation to that shooting.
During that search, Mitchell James and Brown were both charged with misdemeanor drug offenses.
Mitchell James and Brown were also charged in December with possession of marijuana with intent to manufacture or deliver by the Northwest Narcotics Task Force. Those charges stemmed from the same search on Oct. 31.
Duane Stanley, executive secretary for the POST board, said Friday the two complaints, along with another one Douglas James sent this week regarding Divide County Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Domonoske, were going to be postponed. Douglas James’ complaint against Thronveit had been scheduled for a hearing Feb. 7.
Stanley said the letters were sent Thursday.
“We’re going to postpone hearings until the criminal cases are resolved,” he said.
That decision was made after speaking with assistant Attorney General Mike Mahoney, Stanley said.
The complaint Brown and Mitchell James filed claims that Divide County Sheriff’s deputies caused Brown to have several seizures while they were searching her home on Oct. 31.
The search came after a shooting just after midnight on Oct. 31 after rounds were fired toward a group of people standing outside Nooners Bar in Noonan.
One man was injured. Two others, including James, 57, were arrested.
Police say James shot a man in the shoulder, and Shannon Fish, 45, of Noonan, fired toward the crowd but did not hit anyone.
James was charged with attempted murder and is scheduled for trial April 2. Fish was charged with reckless endangerment in mid-November, and is due in court Feb. 9 for a preliminary hearing.
Mitchell James and Brown also claim that during the investigation into a shooting in Noonan, Hubble knocked a cellphone out of Brown’s hand to keep her from recording their search.
“(Hubble) walked up to me, slapped my cell phone out of my hand, knocking it onto the floor, grabbed me by the shoulders, slammed my head and body into a wall and firmly brushed against my breasts,” Brown wrote in a complaint filed with the North Dakota Peace Officer Standards and Training Board.
In the complaint, Brown said she has “epileptic type seizures,” and that neither Hubble nor Throntveit would let her get her medication, and that other deputies deliberately shined their flashlights in her eyes, causing a seizure.
The pair also allege that deputies didn’t have a search warrant when they entered the home.
Douglas and Mitchell James and Brown all claimed that their inquiries about filing a complaint were turned down by a number of agencies, including the Divide County Sheriff’s Office and the Divide County State’s Attorney’s Office. The complaint Mitchell James and Brown filed also said they’d asked for a copy of the Divide County Sheriff’s Office manual but were told no such manual existed.
The pair are due back in court on Jan. 19 for pretrial conferences on their misdemeanor charges and preliminary hearings on the possession of marijuana with intent to manufacture or deliver.
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