On Christmas Eve 2023, 41 12 months previous Grasp Sergeant Nicholas Van Pelt was lifeless, and a 40 12 months previous girl who was not his spouse was on the bottom bleeding from a bullet to the shoulder and one to the arm. In the meantime, Division of Homeland Safety Agent Daniel Breijo was patiently ready for police to reach along with his arms on his head and the homicide weapon at his aspect within the lavatory.
The bleeding girl was capable of inform police, “Danny did it” as she was taken to security and for medical consideration. She has not been recognized, besides that she is a 40 12 months previous worker in Ward County’s state attorney’s office. What she meant was that Breijo was the one who fired eight photographs within the small condo, six virtually instantly into the chest of Van Pelt when he answered the door.
Since that point, the prison case within the state of North Dakota in opposition to federal DHS Agent Breijo has lingered and largely stalled.
9 months later and the case nonetheless has not set the dates for its preliminary listening to, and the protection uncharacteristically retains attempting to seal all particulars on this prison case from public view.
North Dakota residents are questioning what the hell is occurring of their state the place federal authorities are being charged with killing one other federal authority.
And what those that know Division of Homeland Safety Agent Breijo say, is that a large cover-up is underway.
The protection has requested the North Dakota state court docket to seal the proceedings within the homicide case, a most uncommon maneuver say consultants. The choose within the case is Choose Daniel El-Dweek, who denied the request to cover-up the proceedings in the case. The prosecutor, Amanda Engelstad, had initially mentioned she had no opinion on whether or not the case was sealed to the general public, nearly making certain that it will be sealed.
Native media has been reluctant to determine Breijo as a federal agent. A federal supply mentioned Breijo was the “connector” or “embedded” between a number of state and federal companies within the state, including “everybody knew Breijo.”
Breijo was particularly “shut associates” with the Minot Federal Bureau of Investigation say these near the case. Particularly, Breijo was shut with Particular Agent Sarah Joyce. Joyce has informed folks she is “very shut” to Breijo and “implicitly trusts him” on a number of instances.
The FBI has declined remark for this text when requested about their connection to the homicide of Air Drive Grasp Sergeant Van Pelt.
Those that have run into Breijo beforehand consider that there’s a cover-up underway, and that Breijo’s fees will likely be quietly pled down or dismissed. They are saying that Breijo’s doubtless actual motive: interfering in an ongoing legislation enforcement investigation by the Minot Air Drive Base, will doubtless be spun by authorities as a easy love triangle gone fallacious. Federal authorities declare that if that have been the case, the motive would have already got been launched and there wouldn’t be an effort to seal and cover-up the case’s proceedings.
One North Dakota Senator appraised of the scenario is asking for authorities to intervene on this case, however his pleas are falling on deaf ears.
“The Breijo scenario doesn’t add up, one thing’s not proper,” mentioned North Dakota Senator Kent Weston (R) to the Gateway Pundit. “It’s so suspicious that he threatened different folks within the state, and all of the states which have occurred in different instances involving Breijo, after which he goes and kills somebody and makes an attempt to kill another person, and we’re suspiciously not getting data on the case, all of the whereas his fees preserve getting decreased. What’s this all about? The Breijo scenario is past bizarre, it’s all past odd.”
All the judges recused themselves from the case as a result of they knew the feminine sufferer. There are additionally credible accusations that the judges have been conscious that there was ongoing scandals within the North Dakota political system that contain DHS Agent Breijo.
Subsequent motion within the case is 2 weeks from Thursday on October tenth, which is able to talk about the setting of a preliminary listening to.
Courtroom paperwork to this point have didn’t determine a attainable motive for the homicide. Breijo is at the moment being held by the Ward County Detention Center on a $2 million bond. Breijo is at the moment charged with Homicide, Aggravated Assault, Reckless Endangerment, Terrorizing, and Assaulting a Correctional Officer.
Van Pelt was within the Air Drive’s 219th Safety Forces squadron. As of 2021, there have been 139 licensed personnel, 59 full-time and 80 part-time or conventional guard members, in that squadron.
At his funeral, his squadron commander Maj. Greg Goodman mentioned that Grasp Sgt. Van Pelt and the remainder of the squadron was tasked with offering safety to the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missiles stationed at Minot Air Drive Base.
Considered one of Breijo’s different victims notes a attainable motive to the Gateway Pundit: “The case is so cut-and-dry, why isn’t there a trial but? It seems like they’re delaying this trial in order that they’ll preserve downgrading the costs in opposition to Breijo to allow them to plea him out and preserve overlaying up what’s occurring right here.”
“Breijo and BCI [The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation] are being accused of creating false statements. If Breijo felt like folks have been about to burn him as these particulars come out and somebody has to go down, then by selecting to commit a homicide on state territory he may save himself. His logic can be that the state won’t ever admit to their very own corrupt BCI brokers as being related to Breijo. Breijo is aware of that the issues which might be more likely to come out are so delicate and categorized that federal authorities gained’t admit to him and the state gained’t know find out how to prosecute him, so he expects his fees will finally get dropped. He’s defending himself by placing himself in jail in the intervening time underneath state legislation as a result of the feds won’t ever need to declare him or take him again.”
“This was Danny Breijo’s calculated retirement.”
The Department of Homeland Security’s media office refused to offer a remark or response for this story.
