On this date in 1985, a Fargo man received a suspended jail sentence and a year of supervised probation after being convicted of disorderly conduct for making a threatening, incoherent statement to the director of the Fargo Women’s Health Organization.

Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day:

A 31-year-old man found guilty of threatening last month to kidnap Fargo Women’s Health Organization director Jane Bovard was placed on probation in Cass County Court Friday.

County Court Judge Donald Cooke last week found Kevin Scott Johnson, Donaldson Hotel, Fargo, guilty of disorderly conduct. Johnson was accused of approaching Bovard at the Women’s Health Organization, where abortions are performed, and making a disjointed statement naming her and mentioning kidnapping,

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