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Grand Forks PD accused of wrongfully arresting man because of spelling error in investigation

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM · 1 min read
Grand Forks PD accused of wrongfully arresting man because of spelling error in investigation — KFGO, Edina Schools news
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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KFGO) A Golden, Colorado man is suing the Grand Forks Police Department and claiming he was wrongfully arrested for a sex crime because of a spelling error in an investigation.  The complaint filed in Federal Court says Deryck Middleton was arrested at his Golden home in October of last year and accused of inappropriate sexual contact with a minor.  The suit claims that an investigation by Officer Jennifer Freeman with the Grand Forks Police Department was trying to identify a man who goes by Vincent. Vincent had reportedly been having sexual chats with a Grand Forks 13-year-old. The man said he lived in Michigan, was in high school, and ran on the track team.    While subpoenaing information from Google trying to find Vincent, Officer Freeman allegedly misspelled an email address by using the letter a instead of the letter e . Officer Freeman reportedly used the name ‘Vincent Mozzarella’ in her search instead of ‘Vincent Mozzerella’, the complaint says that Vin

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