Articles with the Tag: Crime
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...
POLSON – Possible sentencing was delayed last week for a man accused of shooting his brother and leading authorities on a two-day manhunt in the Mission Mountains in June 2014. Harry Lozeau, 54, was absent from the courtroom on March 25, and Lake County District Judge James Manley said t...
HELENA – A man serving a 50-year sentence for the May 27, 2006 kidnapping of an 18-year old Whitefish woman at a Bigfork festival has again asked the Montana Supreme court to reconsider his case, this time saying that a 2013 ruling by the high court in another matter opens up a way to overturn his conv...
POLSON – A Ronan man accused of killing his brother in June 2014 spent last week mulling a 40-year sentence proposed by Lake County District Judge James Manley on March 18. Manley said Harry Lozeau, 54, has a chance to reject the sentence and go to trial after he agreed to a plea bargain...
POLSON — A Ronan man denied charges that he had swindled nearly $180,000 from two men while acting as a livestock broker in 2013. On Thursday, Andrew Jackson, 29, pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of deceptive practices in Judge Deborah Kim Christopher’s Lake County District Court. ...
POLSON — Corey Robert Franklin of Lakeside was charged with felony theft in district court Feb. 13 for his alleged part in the heist of an automated teller machine from Community Bank. Franklin’s record shows he has a previous conviction for burglary and was on probation in Kalispell. ...
