Beltrami County resident faces new DWI charges after arrest
Joseph Gonzalez-Rivera was booked in Beltrami County on May 31, one of two records that day, as the county’s DWI and court process moved forward.
Joseph Gonzalez-Rivera was booked in Beltrami County on May 31, 2026, after a DWI arrest that now sits in the county’s public criminal process. The booking report for that day listed two records, putting the case into the same system that handles impaired-driving arrests, citations and court filings across Beltrami County.
Beltrami County District Court has original jurisdiction over criminal and traffic cases filed in the county, which means DWI matters tied to local arrests are routed through the same court that handles other criminal and traffic filings. County records staff also maintain the initial, investigative and criminal files, along with arrest records, traffic accident reports, citations and related documents for the sheriff’s office, Bemidji Police Department, Blackduck Police Department and the court system.
The arrest listing does not establish guilt or a conviction. Beltrami County’s inmate and custody resources provide public-facing booking information, but those listings are part of the arrest process and are not proof that a defendant has been found guilty in court. Minnesota Judicial Branch court-search results are also unofficial and are not the official record of a case.
The case comes as state officials continue to track impaired driving through the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s DWI Dashboard, which compiles statewide crash and arrest data for trend analysis. That dashboard is designed to help show where enforcement and prevention efforts are concentrated, and it gives local agencies a way to compare their work in Beltrami County against broader Minnesota patterns.
For Beltrami County, the institutions most directly involved are familiar ones: the sheriff’s office, local police in Bemidji and Blackduck, the county records division and Beltrami County District Court. Together, those agencies document arrests, preserve the paper trail and move DWI cases from the roadside into the courtroom, where charges are tested against the evidence and the law.
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