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BEMIDJI, Minn. (KFGO) – The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Department has recovered a snowmobile that was stolen from the scene of a fatal crash there Sunday.
On Feb. 19 the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office was notified of a snowmobile crash at the Clearwater and Beltrami County Line on the Soo Line Trail. A snowmobile had crashed with a tractor trailer resulting in serious injury to the woman driving the snowmobile. Life saving measures were attempted but the woman died at the scene.
Several hours after the crash, family and friends of the victim returned to the area to recover several snowmobiles that had been left at the scene but they discovered that one of the snowmobiles had been stolen.
Beltrami County Deputies investigating the theft followed tracks leading west from the scene and followed up on several leads that evening. With assistance from the Clearwater County Sheriff’s Office, a search warrant was executed the following day at two rural addresses in Dudley Township near Leonard where snowmobile tracks matching the stolen snowmobile led.
The stolen snowmobile was located at one of the residences and charges are pending on a male and female for felony theft. The snowmobile was returned to the owner.
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