Articles with the Tag: Crime
POLSON — A Great Falls man who led law enforcement on a high-speed chase along Highway 93 in Lake County will belong to the state for 18 years. On Thursday Judge Deborah Kim Christopher sentenced Marshall Duane Dubois, 32, to five years in DOC for felony criminal possession of dangerous dr...
POLSON – A St. Ignatius man recently lost a case in district court, had another dismissed, and yet another case is scheduled for trial on Feb. 21. Solomon Preston Bolen, 35, was convicted of criminal possession of dangerous drugs in a bench trial before Judge James A. Manley on Jan. 6. He was convic...
POLSON – A 22-year-old man is facing revocation of his two-year deferred sentence after some $10,000 in cash, firearms, ammunition and various illegal drugs were allegedly found in his Missoula residence on Jan. 4. Gage Daniel Stroop received the deferred sentence in Lake County on July 13, 2016 aft...
POLSON – Crisis management has been the norm at the Lake County courthouse since 1995, according to 20th District Court Judge Deborah Kim Christopher. She spoke at the Pachyderm Club meeting on Friday and talked about the challenges she and others in the judicial and law enforcement fields have f...
A woman who admitted to assaulting people in both Lake and Sanders counties was sentenced to Montana State Prison for 20 years on five separate felony charges that include theft and criminal possession of drugs. All sentences run concurrently. Court documents note that on July 5, 2015, Tammie Lee Fisher (...
POLSON – Bond was reduced last week for a man facing multiple charges of assault and intimidation. Judge James A. Manley reduced bond from $200,000 to $25,000 for Daniel James Kenmille, 53, for assault on a peace officer and intimidation charges stemming from an Oct. 18 incident in the La...
POLSON – A St. Ignatius man who robbed a German national and a Charlo man last year was sentenced to five years in the Department of Corrections on Jan. 3. District Judge James A. Manley departed from the recommended sentence in a plea agreement that called for a five-year deferred sent...
POLSON — A Big Arm man was convicted of criminal mischief, a felony, and two counts of trespassing, both misdemeanors, in a jury trial last week in district court. Kevin Brent Funk, 54, was found guilty after he plowed furrows on a 2.5-acre property along Flathead Lake and had some boulders placed o...
POLSON — Judge James A. Manley last week rejected a proposed plea agreement for a 26-year-old man charged with two counts of sexual intercourse without consent. Brandon Richmond Turner, 26, of Somers allegedly sexually assaulted two girls at a Bigfork- area cabin where he was staying temporarily in ...
POLSON – A man implicated in the beating death of his 18-year-old nephew in Arlee in February pleaded guilty and testified in district court Dec. 7. Stephen Seese, 23, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty as part of a plea agreement. Seese pleaded guilty to accountability to negligent homicide...
