Public Record

A St. Ignatius man pleaded guilty at District Court in Polson on May 13 to issuing a bad check, which is theft-by-common-scheme and is a felony. Kane Olson, 20, was initially charged with two counts of issuing a bad check, but the charges were amended to theft-by-common-scheme as part of a plea agreement that allows for restitution to both victims and a time for reflecting on the fact that two bad checks were written. According to court records, Olson wrote a check on June 21, 2019, for the amount of $1,046.76 to purchase hay. Olson also wrote another check on Aug. 23, 2019, for $12,946.09 to a private citizen for undisclosed work. Both checks were written on an account in Olson&rsquo...

A Browning man, with ties to the Mission Valley, is accused of leading law enforcement on a vehicle pursuit with five children in his car. Raymond James Head, 34, entered a plea of not guilty at District Court in Polson on May 6 to five counts of felony criminal endangerment. According to charging docu...

A Lake County man has been committed to the Montana Department of Corrections for five years with two years suspended for attempting to strangle the mother of his children. District Judge Deborah “Kim” Christopher handed down the sentence to Matthew Tyler Miller, 31, in District Court at Polson o...