Articles with the Tag: Lake County Sheriff's Office

News from Lake County Sheriff’s Office  POLSON — The man who was arrested for shooting at a Polson Police Officer on February 14, 49-year-old, Cameron Francis of Gridley, California, has been charged with deliberate homicide. Following the attempted homicide of the officer, Francis&rsqu...

News from Lake County Sheriff, Coroner Don Bell LAKE COUNTY — The identity of the human remains located at Buffalo Bridge on Feb. 4, has been determined by the Montana State Medical Examiner’s Office to be 54-year-old Danette Tenas, of Ronan.  Ms. Tenas was reported missing from the Buf...

News from Lake County Sheriff Don Bell LAKE COUNTY — On Oct. 14, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office took a report that 54-year-old Dnette Tenas, of Ronan, had not been heard from by friends or family since Oct. 8. Lake County Sheriff’s Office personnel and Tribal Police officers were abl...

News from Lake County Sheriff Don Bell RONAN — On Oct. 30, at 6:30 a.m., the Lake County 911 Center took a report of a missing person. Patricia Clary, 62, of Ronan, was last seen on Oct. 29 at about noon in a store in Ronan.  It is believed she went south on Hwy. 93 after being seen in Ronan....

LAKE COUNTY — A 70-year-old Polson man, James Lawrence, has been arrested and is being held in the Lake County Jail in connection with the death of 67-year-old Ed Loder of Ronan. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office took a report of Loder as a missing person on Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 12:30 p.m. Upo...

News from Sheriff Donald R. Bell POLSON — On April 5, 2024, at around 7 p.m., two inmates in the Lake County Jail assaulted a Lake County detention officer and attempted escape after gaining control of the officer’s keys. The escape was prevented by another detention officer who was able to ...

Officials in Lake County have said there are more questions than answers after they informed the state that they were pulling out of a decades-old agreement because it can no longer afford to pay for law enforcement on the Flathead Indian Reservation.  In November, the Lake County Commission sent a l...

News from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office PABLO — The identity of the man who died in a camper-trailer fire on Friday, Oct. 13, in Pablo, is 63-year-old, Steven L. Rosenbaum of Pablo.  The deceased was sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office and his cause of death is still un...

POLSON — In 1911 a group of Polson residents petitioned the Montana Legislature to create a new county out of portions of Flathead County to the north and Missoula County to the south. Their request was granted in April of 1923 when voters within the new county’s proposed boundaries approved its ...

News from the Jeremy Bullock Safe Schools Summit HELENA — The second annual School Safety Recognition Awards ceremony was held on Aug. 9 during the fourth annual Jeremy Bullock Safe Schools Summit. The School Safety Recognition Awards are part of the Summit’s effort to help promote school sa...