Washington Post: Evidence shows that the police told South Dakota AG, involved in a fatal accident, that the victim’s glasses were found in his car

Washington Post: Evidence shows that the police told South Dakota AG, involved in a fatal accident, that the victim’s glasses were found in his car

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Ravnsborg hit and killed Joseph Boever, 55, on September 12. He initially told police he had hit a deer, but discovered Boever’s body the next morning after returning to the crash site.

“It’s Joe’s glasses, which means his face came out of the windshield,” one of the detectives told Ravnsborg during an interview released by the state on Tuesday, according to the Post.

“His face was on your windshield, Jason. Think about it,” a North Dakota Criminal Investigation Department detective told Ravnsborg, according to the Post, who said the officer “denied seeing the pair of glasses inside your vehicle or not the man’s body. “The newspaper said the recently released interviews were recorded on September 14 and 30.

State prosecutors announced three counts of misdemeanor charges against Ravnsborg last week, the Post said – charges that could result in up to 90 days in prison and $ 1,500 in damages if the state’s top security officer is found guilty of all of them.

After police interviews were released, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, a Republican, asked Ravnsborg to resign, writing in a tweet: “Now that the investigation is over and the charges have been made, I believe the attorney general should resign.”

“I have reviewed the material we are releasing as of today, and I encourage others to review it as well,” she wrote.

But Ravnsborg does not plan to resign, according to Mike Deaver, his private spokesman, who told Argus Leader that “at no time did this issue hinder his ability to do the office’s work.”
Last year, the state released a toxicology report stating that a blood sample provided by Ravnsborg the day after the accident showed that its blood alcohol content was 0%.

Authorities also released last year Ravnsborg’s 911 call the night of the accident, in which he told dispatchers, “I hit something” that was in the middle of the road.

The dispatcher asked, “Are you hurt, Jason?”

To which Ravnsborg replied, “I am not, but my car certainly is.”

Ravnsborg, a Republican, was elected South Dakota’s attorney general in 2018, according to his office’s website.

Paul LeBlanc, Konstantin Toropin and Christina Maxouris of CNN contributed to this report.

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