Kunkel ordered released on bond, later taken into ICE custody
Judge Sandberg set a $25,000 personal recognizance bond, citing Kunkel’s age, health and weak retrial prospects before ICE took him into custody.
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Werner Kunkel taken into ICE custody after release order
GRAND FORKS — Werner Kunkel is back behind bars, this time in ICE custody, a day after a judge agreed to release the Devils Lake man after his murder conviction was overturned. Kunkel, 65, moved to the Grand Forks County Jail on Thursday, Aug. 13, as his fight for freedom now must go through immigration court. On Wednesday, North Dakota District Judge Ted Sandberg agreed to release Kunkel on a personal recognizance bond on the condition he wear…
Kunkel ordered released on bond, later taken into ICE custody
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. – At a hearing held via Zoom on the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 12, presiding District Judge Theodore Sandberg ordered that Werner Kunkel be released on $25,000 personal recognizance bond to reside in Devils Lake with electronic monitoring while Kunkel awaits the ruling of an appeal from the State Supreme Court, regarding the overturning six months earlier in late February of his 1995 conviction for the 1986 murder of Gilbert …
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