UND Officer Suspended After Woman Allegedly Stole, Crashed Car

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A University of North Dakota police officer whose squad car was stolen and crashed has been suspended 40 hours without pay.

UND spokesman Peter Johnson confirmed that Officer Jake Schiller also was put on six months of probation by Chief Eric Plummer, who said Schiller had left his squad car unsecured in a parking lot.

A Missouri woman who is not a student at UND is accused of stealing the vehicle on May 22 and crashing it in a ditch across the Minnesota border near Crookston. The vehicle was totaled.

A home telephone listing for Schiller could not be found.

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