Department of Justice Press Releases
Anti-drug task forces in Montana are on pace to triple last year’s record-shattering fentanyl seizures and have already taken 58 times more fentanyl off the streets this year than in all of 2019, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Fentanyl-linked [...]
HELENA – For the second year in a row, the Montana Department of Justice’s Forensic Science Division (FSD) has been recognized as a top-performing forensic laboratory, earning the FORESIGHT Maximus Award from the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD). [...]
HELENA – The Department of Justice Prosecution Services Bureau (PSB) won two homicide convictions and one felony intimidation conviction in court last week. Cavey Little Rossbach was convicted of homicide for the murder of William “Bill” Conko-Camel in Sanders County [...]
HELENA -- Lloyd Barrus was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences in Montana State Prison today for his role in the 2017 murder of Broadwater County Sheriff Deputy Mason Moore. Barrus was found guilty in September of three counts of [...]
Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) troopers interdicted large amounts of illegal drugs in 2021, and in the case of the dangerous opioid fentanyl, they’ve already blown past last year’s quantity in 2022, Colonel Steve Lavin announced today. Troopers found nearly 3,800 [...]
Lloyd Barrus will be sentenced to Montana State Prison, not the Montana State Hospital, following successful arguments from Montana Department of Justice attorneys. Barrus was found guilty in September of three counts of deliberate homicide by accountability and two counts [...]
BILLINGS – A New Mexico man who was convicted of aggravated promotion of prostitution last June was sentenced to 15 years at Montana State Prison with three suspended Friday in Yellowstone County District Court before District Judge Donald L. Harris. [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today that Montana will receive $80 million in the final approval of the multi-state settlement holding the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen – and Johnson & Johnson accountable [...]
HELENA – Citing the continued failure to enforce federal law and secure the southern border, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 14 state attorneys general in calling for President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas [...]
HELENA — In response to the alarming increase of drug overdose deaths around the country, Attorney General Austin Knudsen and attorneys general from 15 other states are calling on the Biden administration to take a tougher stance against the influx [...]