“The nose knows. If anybody’s been drinking out there, you can leave right now because I can smell alcohol like you wouldn’t believe.”
Missoula County Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech, after jailing a woman who’d been drinking before she showed up in court in a case involving – you guessed it – [...]
Good grief. I take some time off and the Cops and Courts beat goes nuts. Here’s a quick summary:
A classic alcohol-was-involved case, from the Helena Independent Record:
Three intoxicated men. Two guns. A knife.
One man is airlifted at one point, reportedly shot. Another is taken to a hospital with significant facial
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Two words for this guy – no, not those two. Although they’d apply, too.
Flowers. Chocolate.
Alas, as the Associated Press reports, Conrad Joseph Old Horn Jr. never learned that the only acceptable behavior on Valentine’s Day involves those things.
Prosecutors say Old Horn was drunk on Feb. 14, when he [...]