Port: Paperwork give extra context for Fargo Mayor Mahoney’s involvement in police investigation –

MINOT, N.D. — Final month Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney stated

he wasn’t making an attempt to meddle within the Fargo Police Division’s investigation

into an October 2021 assault and theft incident involving his son, Dylan Mahoney.

New paperwork I’ve obtained give recent context to that declare.

Mahoney not solely is the mayor but in addition manages the police division’s portfolio for town fee. In emails I obtained in April by way of an open data request, Mahoney instructed police detectives to not pursue a concept that the incident was associated to a drug purchase.

“Dylan didn’t have any money on him for a purchase of medication and no intent so I might not pursue that angle,” Mahoney wrote to Detective Troy Hanson.

In subsequent emails, Mahoney instructed investigators he had obtained the help of the Moorhead chief of police, and requested them in the event that they’d interviewed the mom of one of many individuals concerned.

“I am simply making an attempt to assist them clear up the case,” Mahoney instructed me on the time once I requested him concerning the emails. “I am not making an attempt to affect the investigation.”

Mahoney’s account to me largely gibes with what’s revealed in a set of affidavits looking for a search warrant for the telephone of the lady Dylan Mahoney was with, in addition to varied cloud media accounts related to that telephone.

“A woman picked him [Dylan] up and drove to a sure place and a door opened and so they beat the s— out of him,” is how Mahoney in April described to me what occurred. “Dylan was robbed,” he added, saying his son is the “sufferer” of the incident.

In response to the affidavits, Hailey Berg picked up Dylan Mahoney from North Dakota State College on Oct. 4, 2021, after the 2 organized a meet-up to smoke marijuana. Mahoney instructed officers the 2 rode round city earlier than selecting a spot to park close to 1400 twelfth St. N in Fargo.

Later, Berg instructed officers that they had gone to that location as a result of she had organized to buy marijuana, although she stated Dylan Mahoney wasn’t conscious of this. Then on Dec. 2, Berg volunteered her cellphone password to investigators who had seized the gadget beforehand and obtained a search warrant for it.

Per Hanson’s affidavit, Berg instructed investigators at the moment she was “a part of a conspiracy with different individuals to assault Dylan Mahoney.”

Messages obtained from Berg’s telephone, and described within the paperwork, point out that she had begun messaging with an unknown particular person the morning of the assault on Mahoney, arranging for the sale of “coke.”

In deleted messages discovered on the telephone, despatched and obtained contemporaneous to the assault, an unknown particular person said to Berg, “do not roll up then once we rob we’ll tak ya shi then no weee.”

Berg responded with two messages: “Sure” and “precisely.”

In response to Hanson’s affidavit, in an interview with Dylan Mahoney’s dad and mom, they expressed the idea that the assault was the results of a visitors accident from the day earlier than which they stated some on social media have been blaming on Dylan Mahoney.

“The Mahoney household feels Dylan was robbed as retaliation associated to the crash on Oct. 3, 2021,” Hanson states within the paperwork. “They imagine it’s extremely suspicious that Berg reached out to Dylan on Oct. 4, 2021, after a protracted interval of no contact. Berg then drove Dylan to a darkish space the place he was robbed, however Berg wasn’t.”

Metropolis of Fargo spokesman Gregg Schildberger stated this matter “stays an lively investigation for the Fargo Police Division.”

“The investigation file associated to this incident was forwarded to the Cass County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace on April 13, 2022,” he stated in an emailed assertion. That was two days after

my authentic story

on this matter was revealed.

“Roughly per week in the past, the Cass County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace forwarded the file onto the Burleigh County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace for overview,” Schildberger added.

After we spoke in April, Mahoney instructed me he was “annoyed” with the period of time the investigation was taking.