A Fargo woman on Thursday admitted lying to a federal grand jury investigating the 1999 disappearance of elderly LaMoure County, N.D., farmer Norman Limesand.
Bonnie Rosland, 61, 2102 25th St. N., pleaded guilty to a perjury charge that could carry a five-year prison sentence.
Testifying before a grand jury on April 16, 2002, Rosland provided a bogus alibi for her son, Steve Thomas, who is a suspect in Limesand's disappearance, Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Reisenauer said.
Rosland told the grand jury she was giving her son a ride to Fargo on Nov. 12, 1999, the day Limesand disappeared. But telephone records and interviews show that Rosland and Thomas were at their former home, near the Limesand farmstead, when the elderly farmer was last seen, Reisenauer said.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Webb said he will schedule a hearing, likely in August, to determine Rosland's sentencing range.
