Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – A man in the United States illegally faces up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to mitigated deliberate homicide for stabbing a man to death in July 2022, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Francisco [...]
HELENA – A Butte man was sentenced to 50 years in the Montana State Prison after he shot at law enforcement who arrived at the scene where he was breaking windows and setting his apartment on fire, Attorney General Austin [...]
HELENA – A Forsyth man was sentenced in Rosebud County District Court Monday to 60 years in the Montana State Prison with 20 years suspended after admitting to sexually assaulting a minor girl multiple times between 2015 and 2021, Attorney [...]
HELENA – A Wibaux man who previously pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two children under the age of 16 was sentenced Tuesday to a 100-year sentence in the Montana State Prison with 80 years suspended with no parole for 20 [...]
HELENA – Montana’s anti-drug task forces are continuing to shatter fentanyl seizure records as nearly two times more fentanyl has already been taken off the streets so far this year compared to all of 2022 which had obliterated previous records, [...]
HELENA — A Deer Lodge man has been sentenced to three consecutive 100-year sentences in the Montana State Prison following a jury found him guilty in May of three counts of sexual intercourse without consent with a minor, Attorney General [...]
HELENA – A Belgrade man pleaded guilty in Gallatin County District Court to shooting at a sergeant from the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office several times while fleeing from law enforcement in a high-speed chase, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. [...]
HELENA – The Montana Attorney General's Office is charging a Montana man linked to a previously missing Arizona teenager with two felony counts of sexual abuse of children resulting from child sexual abuse material found on his cell phone, Attorney [...]
HELENA – An inmate who was nearing release was sentenced Friday to life in prison for an attack that left a correctional officer in Shelby with a traumatic brain injury, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Landin John Gwynn of [...]
CUT BANK – Cut Bank Police Chief Michael Schultz today identified the officer and decedent in the officer-involved shooting on Friday, October 6 in Cut Bank. Cut Bank Police were dispatched to the home of Jeffrey Severn, 54, Friday afternoon [...]