Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today announced an immigration enforcement agreement with President Donald J. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The agreement will authorize Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) troopers and Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) agents to [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen and Montana Department of Justice prosecutors and investigators testified in Senate Judiciary Committee today in support of Senate Bill 261, sponsored by Senator Greg Hertz, which will protect children from dangerous drugs, like fentanyl. [...]
HELENA – A Montana man was sentenced Monday to 100 years at the Montana State Prison with 50 years suspended and will not be eligible for parole for 25 years for possessing child sex abuse material, Attorney General Austin Knudsen [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today an updated Sexual and Violent Offender Registry (SVOR) that will provide Montanans with additional information on the whereabouts of offenders in their area. In addition to an offender’s home address which was [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today Montana is likely to receive over $16 million dollars from a settlement in principle with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, Purdue’s owners, for the role they played in creating the opioid [...]
HELENA – The Montana Attorney General’s Office today charged an attorney in Lake County with one count of solicitation to commit criminal distribution of dangerous drugs and two counts of attempted criminal possession of dangerous drugs following a months-long investigation. [...]
SUPERIOR – Montana Highway Patrol troopers in Superior conducted an interdiction operation from December 2 – 6 to get illicit drugs, firearms used in drug trafficking crimes, and fugitives off the streets. The operations are conducted at various times across [...]
HELENA – A Kila man was sentenced to 100 years at the Montana State Prison for murdering a woman during an argument at a Martin City bar in 2022, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Del Orrin Crawford, 42, was [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today that Montana will receive nearly $4 million in a multi-state settlement with Kroger – a national grocery chain which operates subsidiaries in Montana, including Smiths and Loaf ‘N Jug – to resolve [...]
HELENA – A Red Lodge man was sentenced to 20 years at the Montana State Prison for assaulting a 9-month-old baby in 2019, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. The man fractured the baby’s skull and left the baby, who [...]