Articles with the Tag: Crime
POLSON — Desmond MacKay, 36, Polson, charged in March 2014 with deliberate homicide in the death of John Barrows, appeared before Judge Deborah Kim Christopher Thursday and pleaded guilty to mitigated deliberate homicide. The charge drew discussion due to the court’s “significant reserva...
POLSON — On April 22 District Court Judge James Manley heard arguments for a new trial for Makueeyapee Whitford, who was found guilty of deliberate homicide in the stabbing death of John Pierre, Jr., after a weeklong trial in December 2014. According to court records, Whitford stabbed the 26-year-ol...
HELENA – State prosecutors, public defenders and the Montana Supreme Court agree: a man convicted in 2008 of incest will need to be resentenced. The high court ruled April 14 that Douglas Guill, 63, needs to be awarded credit for time served in the case where he was sentenced to five concurren...
RONAN — A violent offender is behind bars again after a short pursuit that involved multiple county agencies. According to Lake County Sheriff Don Bell, Glen Parker, 45, of Ronan, was arrested on Haystack Mountain Lane around 9 p.m. April 14 after a brief pursuit. According to Bell, P...
HELENA – A Lake County man will continue serving a 25-year sentence, with 10 of those years suspended, for felony driving under the influence after the Montana Supreme Court refused to grant an appeal on April 7. Wayne TwoTeeth, 48, was sentenced to the Montana State Prison on Jan. 9, 2014 for...
A Ronan man who has served nine years of a 20-year sentence may be out on parole by late April, but will not be allowed within Lake County or the Flathead Indian Reservation. Edward Ness was convicted of felony tampering with evidence, a penalty in 2006 that was much more severe than the misdemeanor offen...
RONAN — A Ronan man accused of killing his brother and leading authorities on a manhunt in June 2014 is set to plead his case before a jury later this year, after rejecting a plea deal that would have sent him to prison for 40 years. Harry Lozeau, 54, had agreed to plead guilty to homicide cha...
POLSON – Authorities say Ronan state wrestling champion Cole Snyder was selling prescription drugs to other students and manipulated a 15-year-old girl into sending him nude photos before the teen was arrested in February for felony distribution of dangerous drugs and felony sexual abuse of children.&n...
MISSOULA – A federal district judge has found a Bigfork man guilty of illegally killing three grizzly bears in May 2014. On March 30, United States Magistrate Jeremiah Lynch found Dan Calvin Wallen, 54, guilty of three counts of unlawfully taking a threatened species. “The only ...
News from the Lake County Pachyderm Club POLSON — Anyone interested in learning what is currently happening in the office of the Lake County Attorney is invited to attend the Friday, April 10 meeting of the Lake County Pachyderm Club. Steve Eschenbacher, Lake County Attorney, will be reporting on...
