On Tuesday, April 5, the Red Lake County Sheriff’s Office received a report from Underdahl’s Hardware Hank, at the Mall in Red Lake Falls, that their store had been broken into sometime overnight. 
Red Lake County law enforcement responded to the business and conducted an initial investigation, which revealed that several handguns had been stolen. Later that morning, a suspect was identified and Pennington County deputies and Pine to Prairie Drug Task Force Officers located the suspect in Pennington County.
Around 1:30 pm, Daniel Murphy Saunders (31) of Red Lake Falls was arrested on Highway 59, approximately five miles south of Thief River Falls. Red Lake County authorities transported Saunders to the jail in Crookston and he was booked for felony burglary. The Red Lake County Sheriff’s Office also seized his vehicle.
Some of the items stolen from the hardware store have been recovered, and this investigation remains open and is ongoing. Involved agencies include; the Red Lake County Sheriff’s Office, the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office, the Thief River Falls Police Department, the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office, the Pine to Prairie Drug Task Force, the Minnesota State Patrol, Red Lake Tribal Police and the ATF.
