HELENA - Attorney General Austin Knudsen and Stockman Bank announced Brooke Murphy, of Missoula, as the winner of the fifth annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Poster Contest, during National Police Week. Brooke is a fifth-grade student at Hellgate Intermediate in Missoula.In [...]

HELENA – Sixty-three new officers who will serve in 32 agencies across the state graduated today from the Montana Law Enforcement Academy (MLEA) within the Montana Department of Justice. MLEA provides basic and advanced training for state, county, city, and [...]

HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen and Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) Colonel Kurt Sager visited the MHP Communications Center today to recognize dispatchers during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, which is April 12-18. The dispatchers at MHP’s Communications Center are [...]

 HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen awarded Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) Sergeant Barry Kilpela and Trooper Justin Knapp with the Award of Valor, the Patrol’s highest award for locating a wanted Nebraska fugitive, with a no-bond warrant for his arrest [...]

HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today fentanyl and most other dangerous drug seizures in Montana decreased in 2025.Most notably, last year, fentanyl seizures decreased 70 percent from 2024 and nearly 80 percent from 2023 when there was an [...]

HELENA – Submissions are open for the 2026 Montana Law Enforcement Appreciation Poster Contest, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Elementary school students throughout Montana are encouraged to participate in the fifth annual poster contest by submitting artwork which displays [...]

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 – 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 [...]