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 – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a 22-state coalition urging the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to expand its ongoing investigation into the improper influence of federal proceedings to include The Federal Judicial Center, which recently published a biased [...]
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 [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is reminding Montanans to stay vigilant and on the lookout for bad actors trying take advantage of them as the Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) fielded 599 scam complaints, 1,395 complaints [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in a letter supporting the Trump Administration’s revision of a Biden-era Health and Human Services (“HHS”) rule that unlawfully promulgated a woke agenda over federal funding [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today issued the following statement regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed decision to cancel the American Prairie Reserve’s bison grazing leases:“I’m pleased to see this proposed decision from the Trump Administration’s Bureau of Land [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a Montana Supreme Court decision today that law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant if there is reason to [...]
BOULDER – The Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) announced today troopers will begin accepting Montana Mobile IDs and other mobile IDs from across the country during routine traffic stops. This provides motorists with more choice, offering them another easy, secure, and [...]
HELENA – The Montana Department of Justice is seeking applications to fill one spot on the Tow Truck Complaint Resolution Committee. The positions available are representative of the tow truck industry from Montana Highway Patrol. The Committee reviews and resolves [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen, along with Governor Greg Gianforte, today recognized Human Trafficking Prevention Month by reminding Montanans to learn the signs of human trafficking and report it if they see it to help stop the heinous crime.Human [...]