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From Red (Sox) to purple staplers, the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office is one colorful place

Most of the time, the stories on the Cops and Courts beat involve crime.

But not always.

Every so often, we look at the people behind the stories, as we did this week with this feature about some of the more unusual features of the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office. Tom Bauer’s photo gives [...]

President Obama’s shout-out to Missoula County Sheriff’s top cops!

Missoula County Sheriff’s Capt. Rich Maricelli and Detective T.J. McDermott say they were just doing their jobs when they helped crack an 18-year-old cold case involving the murder of a young Navy sailor.

But yesterday, they got a much-deserved shout-out from President Obama in a ceremony at the Rose Garden. It comes [...]

Missoula County Sheriff’s detectives not just good cops – they’re Top Cops!

Here’s a really good result to a really awful case. The person or people who murdered sailor James Alan Horton have walked free for nearly two decades.

Now, thanks largely to the work of Missoula County Sheriff’s Detectives Rich Maricelli (left in Michael Gallacher photo above) T.J. McDermott (right), four people are [...]