Articles with the Tag: Lake County Sheriff's Office
POLSON — With temperatures in the 90s, a ban on fireworks and worries about no moisture, fire is on everybody’s mind. The Polson Rural Fire District special meeting on July 1 was blazing, too, from the stifling temperature of the Fairgrounds Fire Station to the opinions of people attending. ...
LAKE COUNTY — The National Weather Service’s heat advisory issued for Saturday and Sunday warned those living in Western Montana to be prepared for some of the hottest weather ever recorded in the month of June, and they were right. Across the state on Sunday, Helena set an all-time reco...
POLSON — A fire first reported as a “controlled burn that got out of control” destroyed two mobile homes in a remote area of Rocky Point Road the evening of May 18, taking firefighters about four hours to extinguish and mop up, according to Karen Sargeant, public information officer for Pol...
RONAN — It was a crime of opportunity, and the “criminals” were dressed in black. The back door on Dave Robbins’ stock trailer sprung open just as he stopped at the traffic signal on Main Street and Terrace Lake Road in Ronan, and the six black angus bulls Robbins was hauling...
HELENA – The Montana Supreme Court has granted permission for a Missoula man convicted of stalking a Lake County woman in 2014 to appeal his sentence. The high court granted the out-of-time appeal for Brandon Bagnell, 46, because confusion in the public defender’s office led to a timely ...
ARLEE — Spending the day learning to run, hide, or fight isn’t usually what happens in Arlee schools, but Lake County Sheriff Deputies Levi Read and School Resource Officer Clay Shoemaker and Detective Rick Lenz were on hand to train educators on procedures to deal with an armed intruder on Jan. ...
It had been a whirlwind between when Lake County Sheriff Don Bell and Undersheriff Jim Atkins took office at one minute after midnight on Jan. 1 and when they came to speak to the Pachyderm Club on Jan. 9. During the last nine days, Bell and Atkins have put in more than 110 hours each, going to work...
PABLO — Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a 911 call at 8:12 a.m. Friday. The call reported a man with a shotgun outside Salish Kootenai College housing on Hewankorn Loop. Dispatchers used emergency tones so deputies responding were the only ones who could talk; everyone else just li...
News from Lake County Sheriff’s Department RONAN – A Ronan woman is in jail this weekend, after leading authorities on a high-speed chase Friday afternoon that ended in the Ronan Middle School parking lot. According to a press release from the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, Delicia...
CHARLO — Authorities are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at approximately 7:50 p.m. at Connie’s Countryside Cafe on Monday night. According to owner Connie Stevens, a woman entered the cafe’s back door just before closing time on Monday night, pressed a gun to on...
