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Of anti-government types, in the pen and on the run

The things you learn covering this beat. For instance, an “AB agent in the federal pen” apparently refers to a high-ranking member of the Aryan Nations group within the federal prison system.

We gleaned that nugget from this story by the Missoulian’s Keila Szpaller, about an arrest on drunk driving charges that quickly [...]

See Missoula County Sheriff’s Office featured on America’s Most Wanted this Saturday!

The Missoula County Sheriff’s Department has been getting a lot of national exposure lately. First, they were featured on National Geographic’s Frontier Force: Montana.

Now, as the Missoulian’s Tristan Scott reports:

The Fox television show “America’s Most Wanted” is joining the manhunt for David Burgert (in photo), an ex-militia leader from Flathead [...]

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 [...]

Quote of the Day – Creepy journey on the information highway

“If you lived next door to a six-lane highway, you’d be worried about (your kids playing in) traffic. Yet the information highway goes right through your house.”

Missoula police Detective Guy Baker, one of three members of Missoula’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force. (Read the Missoulian story on their efforts.)

In [...]