Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
University of Montana football player Jimmy Wilson pleaded not guilty Tuesday to allegations that he bit a woman’s leg, responding to the misdemeanor charge one year after jurors in Southern California acquitted him on murder charges.
The allegations prompted UM officials to suspend the standout cornerback indefinitely from football practice.
Wilson, 24, was cleared by the NCAA [...]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The city/county online public report has a new look.
Ginny Schuler, senior criminal justice programmer/analyst, has added a some cool new features to the website, including a map that shows where incidents occurred.
The map is also color coded depending on the agency. The Missoula Police Department incidents will appear as blue. The Missoula County Sheriff’s Department [...]
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
A New Jersey truck driver has been arrested and charged with two felonies, including negligent homicide, for the 2008 death of volunteer fireman Jerry James Parrick in a horrific wintertime crash on Interstate 90.
Parrick, 59, was warning traffic of a single-vehicle wreck on Dec. 17, 2008, near his Haugan home when a FedEx semi with [...]
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
Check it out here.
The following is from the Missoula Police Department’s senior criminal justice programmer:
After some diligent work with my co-worker Ken Marshall, we have now put the Daily Public Media Report on the web (http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/911center/dailypublicreport/).
As you will see the report will automatically pre-fill with the last 24 hour period on the web [...]
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
After reporting this story about a homeless man who was shot in the cheek with a blowgun dart fired from a passing Lexus early Monday morning, I received word from a local blogger who recalled a similar incident 10 years ago, or so she remembered.
Here’s the August 1995 article written by former Missoulian reporter Mick [...]
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Check out this link to real-time Montana Highway Patrol crash and incident reports. The Web page maps the locations and is updated pretty frequently.
It’s a good resource for anyone trying to figure out what’s happening on Montana’s roadways, be it a four-car collision tying up traffic or a report of road kill.
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
After a hiatus from the blogosphere that I assure you, dear readers, was only temporary, I’d like to introduce a new weekly installment here at copsandcourts.com. It’s called Legalese.
That’s right, Legalese, as in that impossible-to-understand brand of jargon-y gobbledygook that lawyers use to obfuscate the clear and simple truth from us laypersons.
Actually, legalese is born [...]
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Police on Tuesday arrested a 28-year-old Missoula man on charges that he was growing and selling marijuana, and seized an estimated 120 plants from his Northside home.
Owen Lee Smith is charged with three felonies in the case – criminal production of dangerous drugs, possession of dangerous drugs with the intent to distribute, and criminal possession [...]
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
House Bill 228, also known as the “castle doctrine,” has played a significant role in the case of Allen Metzger.
Metzger maintained he acted in self-defense in the Aug. 16, 2009, slaying of James Finch in the men’s room of a Ronan bar. He was originally charged with deliberate homicide, but changed his plea Monday from [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
A Missoula city councilwoman arrested last week for driving under the influence of alcohol pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of DUI per se, then apologized for her actions during a Missoula City Council meeting.
“I made a human error in judgment,” Pam Walzer, 54, said during the evening council meeting. “I was wrong and [...]
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