Department of Justice Press Releases
PHILIPSBURG - The Montana Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating an officer-involved critical incident that occurred this afternoon near Philipsburg on Montana Highway 1. At approximately 4:00 p.m., the suspect walked into the Sunshine Station in Philipsburg and threatened [...]
HELENA – A Livingston man was sentenced to life at the Montana State Prison for murdering a man in 2022, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Skyler Griebel, 33, was found guilty in October 2025 of deliberate homicide. In February [...]
BOULDER- Montana Highway Patrol troopers conducted an interdiction operation in St. Regis from December 7-11 to combat crime and remove illicit drugs from the community. During the operation, MHP's Criminal Interdiction Team (CIT) and Strategic Enforcement Traffic Team (SETT) worked [...]
BILLINGS – The Montana Department of Justice (MTDOJ) and Billings Police Department (BPD) are warning citizens of the increased presence of the synthetic opioid carfentanil in Yellowstone County. The Eastern Montana High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force recently seized [...]
BOULDER - Montana Highway Patrol troopers conducted an interdiction operation in Butte from October 7-14 to combat crime and remove illicit drugs from the community. During the operation, troopers worked alongside United States Border Patrol and Air National Guard [...]
HELENA – A Flathead County man was found guilty Friday on six counts of sexual intercourse without consent for sexually abusing three minor children from 2019 to 2021. Three survivors came forward alleging that Jami Leslie James, 50, sexually abused [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is warning Montanans of the dangers of 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), a widely available over-the-counter opioid. 7-OH is a concentrated byproduct of the kratom plant that has a high potential of misuse and can even cause [...]
HELENA – Prosecutors in the Montana Attorney General’s Office Thursday charged a Carter County man with three felony counts of sexual abuse of children (CSAM) for possession of explicit images and videos that depict a child under the age of [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement on National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day, warning Montanans of the dangers of illicit fentanyl: “So far this year, fentanyl seizures in Montana are down and that’s great news. We [...]
ANACONDA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen received a briefing and updated the public today in Anaconda regarding the Friday shooting and ongoing search for the suspect. On Friday around 10:30 a.m., 45-year-old Michael Brown walked into The Owl Bar [...]