New Rockford Transcript - Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland sentenced Hunter Hanson to eight years in a federal prison, plus three years of probation, in a grain trading scheme gone bad.

Hovland handed down his order on Tuesday, Nov. 12 in Bismarck.

The judge also ordered $1.27 million in a money judgment, roughly the amount Hanson took from the grain business to invest in a used auto business he started in Bel...