Department of Justice Press Releases
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 [...]
HELENA – A Montana man linked to a previously missing Arizona teenager pleaded guilty Monday in Hill County District Court to one count of sexual abuse of children after authorities found child sexual abuse material on his cell phone last [...]
BUTTE – Montana Highway Patrol troopers in Butte recently conducted an interdiction operation from September 9 – 12 to get illicit drugs, firearms used in drug trafficking crimes, and fugitives off the streets. The operations are conducted at various times [...]
BILLINGS – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today a Montana Department of Justice program to put life-saving opioid reversal kits in middle and high schools across Montana. The program builds on Attorney General Knudsen’s mission to combat the fentanyl crisis [...]
VALLEY COUNTY – The Montana Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating an officer-involved critical incident that occurred late Saturday night in Valley County. At approximately 9:19 p.m., deputies from Valley and McCone County Sheriff’s Offices were responding to a disturbance call occurring [...]
HELENA – A Three Forks man was sentenced in Gallatin County District Court Monday to 110 years in Montana State Prison for murdering a man in 2022, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced. Zachary Eugene Norman, 26, was found guilty in [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today anti-drug task forces in Montana seized 150 percent more fentanyl in the first quarter of 2024 than during the first quarter of 2023. Through the first quarter of 2024, Rocky Mountain [...]