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BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Terrance Tyrell Edwards was sentenced to 360 months in prison, lifetime supervised release, and a $1,000 special assessment. Edwards was also ordered to pay $3,370 in restitution to one of his victims. U.S. District Judge Susan P. Watters presided over the hearing. A jury convicted Edwards in February of three counts of Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion; three counts of Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Prostitution; one count of Obstruction of a Sex Trafficking Investigation; one count of Transportation of a Person with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity; one coun...
A Pablo man was sentenced to 10 years with the Montana Department of Corrections with seven years suspended on a criminal endangerment charge at District Court in Polson on Thursday. District Judge Kim Christopher sentenced David Boyed Vanbouchaute, 32, to an additional year in the Lake County jail ...
BOZEMAN – Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte announced that a member of his staff will conduct mobile office hours in Polson on Tuesday, June 26, at 4 p.m. in the Lake County Courthouse, third floor conference room, 106 Fourth Ave. E.
Ronald Jason Beavers, 45, was initially charged with strangulation of a partner or family member. He entered a plea of guilty at District Court in Polson on Wednesday to the amended charge of felony criminal endangerment. On the evening of October 29th, 2017, the victim returned from a basketball tourname...
A Ronan man admitted on Thursday at District Court in Polson to stealing a 2006 Kia in Ronan. On December 29, 2017, a woman reported leaving her 2006 Kia running while she went into her sister's residence to pick up her children, according to court records. The Kia was gone when she went to leave wi...
Marriages Laura Be Mahon and Kevin Thomas O’Shea Robert Lewis St. Clair and Lisa Ann Stover Wanda Elizabeth Koso and Melvin Patrick Rostad Billy J. Crow and Geraldine M. Alex Timothy Michael Dehne and Rachel Arleen Hardy Brian Eugene Raines and Bobbie Jane Sculley Divorces Rocky Lee Licano...
A former employee of Ace Hardware in Ronan will have six years to pay back his former employer after he admitted to embezzling more than $5,000. Benjamin M. Meafua, 23, admitted during an April 26 court appearance to using a manager’s pass code on a computer to return sold merchandise onto his...
Justice of the Peace Randal L. Owens dealt with the following cases from March 30-April 26: The following individuals were found guilty of speeding: James David Beresovoy , 37, fined $85; Michael John Kalagian , 30, fined $20; Grant Pierson Myhre , 40, fined $20; Ronald Colton Phillipson , 22, fined $...
A Ronan man was committed to the State Department of Corrections for five years with all that time suspended at District Court in Polson on May 23 following a criminal endangerment conviction. According to court records, on Nov. 12, 2017 a Flathead Tribal Police Officer was on routine patrol when he obser...
A former Lake County social worker, who was charged with raping a Polson woman, has pleaded guilty to the amended charge of criminal endangerment. According to court records on Sept. 26, 2017, Chase Joseph Ripley, 34, in his capacity as Child Protective Services agent for Lake County’s Department of...
