Articles with the Tag: Lake County Sheriff's Office
On Wednesday, Dec. 6, after 12 noon, Missoula PD attempted to initiate a stop on a vehicle, a black Ford Taurus, driving recklessly in a residential neighborhood in Missoula. The vehicle fled and ended up northbound into Lake County on U.S. Hwy. 93 at speeds of up to 85 or 90 mph. Missoula County r...
News from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a registered sex offender for three counts of felony sexual assault on a person under 16 years of age. A report was made to the Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 15 regarding allegations of sexual assault b...
News from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office The Lake County Sheriff’s Office was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from a local family foundation to supply each sworn deputy with an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). Additionally, the grant supplied an AED to be installed in the main Lake...
POLSON — A charge of possession with intent to distribute illegal drugs was dismissed last month against a Ronan man while another charge remains. The Lake County Attorney’s Office filed two separate charges against Brian Francis Charette, 44, stemming from Dec. 30, 2016, and June 2.&nbs...
POLSON – A 61-year-old murder convict was convicted of sexual assault at a jury trial last week. Donald Dean Grant of Arlee was found guilty of one of two sexual assault charges against two girls dating to 2006 or 2007. The girls were 4 and 7 or 8 at the time of the incident and alleged inc...
POLSON – A 22-year-old Ronan man has been charged with robbery, assault with a weapon and two counts of criminal endangerment after bullets allegedly whizzed by two children last month. A woman has also been charged in the incident. Nathan Joseph Mahseelah was arrested following an incident in...
PABLO – A 34-year-old Pablo man was shot and killed by a 28-year-old Pablo man early Saturday morning, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. A 911 call came in at 4:23 a.m. on Sept. 16 and deputies responded to a residence south of Pablo on U.S. Highway 93. Deputies determined t...
POLSON — A 63-year-old Polson man pleaded guilty to sexual assault and indecent exposure with a minor younger than 16 on Sept. 13. Robert Walter Bertsch is to be sentenced on Nov. 8. According to a court document, Bertsch took off an 8-year-old’s clothing, touched the child inappropri...
Gibson Brooks of Ronan, 19, died as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on Sloan Road late Thursday night, July 20. According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, alcohol is suspected as a factor in the crash that was called in to dispatch around 11 p.m. A 19-year-old female pass...
Lake County Sheriff’s Office reported that the body of a man was recovered from the Flathead River on June 27. LCSO believes the man is Richard Mitchell, 23, of Minatare, Nebraska. The body was recovered 10 miles downstream of Buffalo Bridge, or 17 miles from the SQK Dam, after it was spotted by a f...
