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GRAND FORKS Police Chief John Packett told NBC’s Kevin Tibbles that police officers had two conversations with the suspect, Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 50, and planned to have more before his Thursday afternoon bond hearing.
“We do have a dialogue that is ongoing,” he said. “I think it’s positive that he’s continuing to talk to us.”
Packett also said that law enforcement officers would search for the 22-year-old Sjodin on Thursday, a day after an estimated 1,700 volunteers searched fields, ditches and outbuildings in Grand Forks County in North Dakota and Polk County, Minnesota, the area where Rodriguez was arrested on Monday.
He declined to say whether the more-focused search was the result of information provided by Rodriguez, a three-time convicted rapist accused of kidnapping Sjodin from the parking lot of a Grand Forks shopping mall on Nov. 22.

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