Apr 24, 2008 9:57 pm US/Central
Border Patrol Officer Indicted In Traffic Death
GRAND MARAIS, Minn.
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The county attorney's office said Weber was working out of the Border Patrol office in Grand Marais and was believed to have been on duty when the accident happened. (File)
CBS
A U.S. Border Patrol officer has been indicted on charges of careless driving and failure to drive with due care for an accident that killed a man who was removing a fallen tree from the Gunflint Trail last October, prosecutors said Thursday.
The Cook County attorney's office issued a news release saying a grand jury had indicted Maranda Marie Weber, 27, on the two misdemeanor charges. The grand jury declined to return an indictment on a felony charge of criminal vehicular homicide.
Dr. Kenneth Millard Petersen, 67, who lived on Seagull Lake in Minnesota, and in Anchorage, Alaska, was struck and killed the night of Oct. 31 about nine miles outside of Grand Marais. He was on his way home from a church choir rehearsal when he stopped to remove a tree that had fallen across the road, which leads deep into the Superior National Forest.
The county attorney's office said Weber was working out of the Border Patrol office in Grand Marais and was believed to have been on duty when the accident happened. She's expected to be arraigned within the next two weeks.
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