Havre woman enters not guilty pleas in Oxford stabbing

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

A 22-year-old woman pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of attempted murder and assault with a weapon for allegedly stabbing two men outside of a downtown Missoula bar last month.
Lacey Jade Tollefson, of Havre, appeared for the arraignment hearing in 4th Judicial District Court in Missoula. She remains jailed in lieu of $500,000 bail [...]

Sex offender arrested near tanning salon

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Missoula police officers have arrested a 35-year-old sex offender who sneaked into a Missoula tanning booth Monday and spied on a woman while she tanned, then followed her outside into the parking lot.
Jesse William Kirk, who was wanted on a felony burglary warrant out of Helena, was spotted Wednesday near another tanning salon on South [...]

Florence murder suspects arraigned on new charges

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Lincoln C. Benavides
The two men accused of a drug-related triple homicide at a Florence hair salon in 2001 pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a revised indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Missoula.
The 15-count indictment was filed Monday and is the third revision that federal prosecutors have made. In its most recent construction, the indictment [...]

Hit-and-run victim dies; investigation ongoing

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Beverly Joyce Felton/Photograph courtesy of Felton family
The victim of a hit-and-run accident on Reserve Street died Tuesday night and police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the fatal crash.
Beverly Joyce Felton, 67, was flown to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center in critical condition Monday afternoon after she was struck by a pickup truck. She was [...]

67-year-old Missoula woman in critical condition after hit-and-run

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

A 67-year-old Missoula woman is in critical condition after she was struck by a pickup truck in a hit-and-run accident on Reserve Street Monday afternoon.
Beverly Joyce Felton, who was walking her bicycle through a crosswalk at the time of the collision, is being treated at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Family members say they are [...]

Voyeuristic sex offender targets Missoula tanning salon; wanted on similar charges out of Helena

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Authorities in western Montana are looking for a 35-year-old sex offender who snuck into a Missoula tanning booth Monday and spied on a woman, then followed her outside into the parking lot.
Jesse William Kirk was last registered as a sexual offender in Hayden, Idaho, and also is wanted on a felony burglary warrant out of [...]

UM Christian law students to appeal decision on recognition

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

A group of Christian law students seeking to exclude homosexuals from its ranks at the University of Montana is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that upholds UM’s decision not to recognize the group as a registered student organization.
The First Amendment case was brought in December 2007 when the local chapter of the Christian Legal Society [...]

Man leads police on 100 mph chase

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Update: The driver is 23-year-old Brandon Joshua Illig. He’s charged with theft, reckless driving, criminal endangerment, drunken driving, assault on a peace officer, driving without a license and . . . seat belt violation.
A man allegedly stole an Oldsmobile in Missoula on Wednesday and led police on a high-speed chase for 50 miles on Interstate [...]

Judge rejects plea bargain in hammer assault case; sentencing rescheduled

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

A Missoula judge rejected a plea agreement Tuesday in the assault case of Thomas Wesley Allen, a Hamilton man who admitted beating a woman with a hammer after arranging a date through her escort service.
Fourth Judicial District Judge Robert L. “Dusty” Deschamps III said at a scheduled sentencing hearing that he intended to impose a [...]

Former Missoula police officer sentenced to a year in prison for child pornography

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Former Missoula police officer Jason Huntsinger was sentenced to one year in prison on Friday for receiving obscene material over the Internet, including images of child pornography.
In addition to the prison term, Huntsinger, 38, must also complete three years of supervised release. He faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine [...]