Articles with the Tag: Crime
POLSON — Judge James A. Manley has ordered a change of venue to a county outside western Montana to ensure Harry Lozeau gets a fair trial. Lozeau is accused of killing his brother, Terry Lozeau, on June 14, 2014. On June 25, 2014, Lozeau pleaded not guilty to felony charges of deliberate homic...
HELENA – A man has appealed two life sentences handed down in 2013 for a disturbing home invasion and murder in Dixon by saying his plea of “guilty, but mentally ill” should not have been permitted. Nathan Lee William Calvert, 35, was sentenced in 2013 to two life sentences, plus t...
MISSOULA – A Polson man has until Sept. 10 to reach a plea agreement with federal officials who say he used investors’ money for personal use instead of investing it in his fireworks business as promised. If an agreement is not reached he will go to trial on felony wire fraud and money laun...
POLSON – A man is set to be tried before a judge in Polson this September for allegedly killing his father-in-law in a vicious March 2014 attack with a claw hammer. The Montana Supreme Court on Aug. 7 denied a request for a judge substitution made by public defenders on behalf of Desmond Alan ...
RONAN — A Ronan man who took money for the sale of cattle and land but never delivered received a suspended sentence of 10 years and was ordered to pay $191,920 in restitution. In Lake County District Court on July 30, Andrew Jackson, 29, was sentenced to the Department of Corrections for felony dec...
Shooting under investigation RONAN — A juvenile was airlifted from St. Luke Community Hospital with serious injuries Saturday evening after being shot in the abdomen. Sheriff Don Bell couldn’t release further details pending an ongoing investigation, but he said that the Ro...
RONAN — A Ronan man was sentenced to 10 years in the Montana State Prison on July 29 for killing a toddler last year. Galen Hawk, 26, was also ordered to serve 13 months in the Montana Department of Corrections after the first punishment was complete, with an additional three-year suspended se...
POLSON – The Lake County Attorney’s Office has dropped felony distribution of dangerous drugs and sexual abuse of a child charges that were made against a Ronan High School wrestler. Authorities claimed Cole Snyder, 18, was selling Lortab to other students and manipulated an underage gir...
POLSON — Attorneys for a man facing homicide charges argued Thursday that the court did not have authority to reject his plea bargain after initially accepting it, nor authority to reinstate deliberate homicide charges. Adrian McElderry, 32, is accused of killing his wife, RaeLynn Charlo, 29, on Nov...
WILD HORSE ISLAND — An illegal campfire is the cause of a five-acre fire that burned on Wild Horse Island State Park last week. The fire started Wednesday, July 22, at about 4 p.m. on the west side of the island. Several agencies responded to fight the fire from both the water and air. No indi...
