Arrest Made in Perez Case

 

The Fargo Police Department says an arrest has been made in the homicide case of Gabriel Perez last weekend.

Miguel Jay Cooley, Sr., age 44, of Moorhead, Minn., was arrested on Monday evening at 7:40 p.m. at a private residence west of Rochester, Minn., by the Austin Police Department’s SWAT team, in conjunction with the U.S. Marshall’s High Plains Fugitive Task Force, North Star Fugitive Task Force, Mower County Sheriff’s Office, and the Austin Police Department.

Cooley was arrested without incidence, surrendering to the SWAT team after being ordered to come out of the residence.