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Cops and Courts Quote of the Day – Yellowstone suicide by bear?

“He had planned to go up in the mountains and shoot a gram of heroin and be bear food. He wanted to overdose and let the bears eat him.”

Mohave (Ariz.) County sheriff’s Detective Larry Matthews, about an alleged plan by convicted killer Tracy Province (in AP photo at right) to be eaten [...]

Cops and Courts Catch-up – Suicide suit verdict. Bank robbery hearing. Execution date pending. Horsehair thievery.

Whew. One day out of Missoula (to cover closing arguments, and the eventual verdict, in a lawsuit stemming from the 2004 suicide of a 16-year-old at Spring Creek Lodge Academy for troubled youth near Thompson Falls) and all heck breaks loose on the cops and courts beat.

Frightened Horse (Eugene Delacroix)

While [...]