Northeast Radio SD News - Watertown, SD - A sentencing hearing held Thursday morning in Codington County highlighted the profound impact of local criminal activity on the community’s sense of safety, as Ted “TJ” Hurkes was sentenced to 50 years in the state penitentiary.

Northeast Radio SD News – South Dakota - A Harrisburg man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a scheme to evade federal banking laws through a practice known as “structuring.”

Northeast Radio SD News – Sioux Falls, SD - A Jamaican citizen was sentenced on Monday in federal court to 63 months in prison for his role in a years-long sweepstakes scheme that defrauded an elderly California woman of more than $181,000.

Northeast Radio SD News - Hayti, SD - A Lake Norden man has been sentenced in Hamlin County Circuit Court following an investigation by the Hamlin County Sheriff’s Office that began earlier this year.

Northeast Radio SD News – South Dakota - A California man has been sentenced to 33 years in federal prison for leading a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering organization operating between California and South Dakota.

Northeast Radio SD News - Watertown, SD - A Watertown, South Dakota, man, Gokoh Frank Brown, age 29, has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison following his conviction for Aggravated Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abuse of a Minor. U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann handed down the sentencing on November 3, 2025.

Northeast Radio SD News - Watertown, SD - Steven Scott Ulm, 26, was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on October 22, 2025, in Codington County Circuit Court after entering a guilty plea to a Class 4 felony drug charge.