Jamestown mayor Dwaine Heinrich said a claim of sexual assault being made against him is false.
The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the allegation reported as inappropriate touching, according to Jamestown Chief of Police Scott Edinger.
A call was made to the Jamestown Police Department at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, from 115 1st Ave. S, which is the address of the Office Bar, according to the log of calls from the Stutsman County Communications Center.
“reports there is a male that touched her in appropriately,” the call log said. The call was classified as "disorderly conduct" for the type of activity on the call log. Edinger confirmed that the call was related to the mayor.
Edinger said no one has been arrested and the BCI is investigating the alleged incident because of a conflict of interest.
“It’s clearly a conflict of interest when you are investigating your boss,” he said. “They are going to be the impartial agency that will come in and do the investigation.”
Valley News Live reported Sunday evening that it received a tip on its whistleblower hotline of a woman claiming to have been sexually assaulted by Heinrich at a local bar in Jamestown on Saturday evening.
“I have worked with a number of news organizations and most in my experience do want to at least consider if the stories have any validity,” Heinrich said. “Apparently this is not the case with Valley News.”
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