Articles with the Tag: Lake County Sheriffs Office
The vehicle involved in yesterday’s shooting/pursuit incident has been determined to have been stolen from Billings on Nov. 14. The driver of the vehicle has been identified as 34-year-old Alta Littlelight-Threefingers of Crow Agency, Montana. The passenger has been identified as 27-year-old Roishell S...
News from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office At about 4 p.m. on Sept. 26 Lake County Dispatch received a radio call from the captain of the jail that there was a male with a gun at the west side parking lot of the courthouse on First Street in a car. Deputies who responded from inside the court appr...
Death of Ronan woman under investigation The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to investigate a death that occurred on Sunday, Aug. 20, at about 5:45 p.m. on East Post Creek Road. Jessie Qualtier, 36, of Ronan, died due to injuries sustained after exiting a vehicle, which was travellin...
POLSON – The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has had a dive team for a number of years, but a group of search and rescue volunteers are trying to start a swiftwater rescue team. Steve Bowman, Gabe Ouellette and Rick Reeves completed two days of training in May on Swan Lake with Swan Mission...
The search continues for a 23-year-old Nebraska man who fell into the Flathead River below the spill way of Selis Ksanka Qlipse dam on Wednesday, May 31. According to Lake County Sheriff Don Bell, the man has been identified as Richard Mitchell of Minatare, Nebraska. Mitchell was with two other people from N...
POLSON – The Lake County Sheriff’s Office will host a no-cost citizens’ academy starting Thursday, April 20, and there are still some seats available. The program runs for seven weeks on Thursday evenings with an optional range-day on a Saturday. Citizens are exposed to all facets of sherif...
LAKE COUNTY ‑ Lake County law enforcement officers recently confiscated large amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana in two separate, unrelated cases, according to Lake County Sheriff Don Bell. On Sunday, Jan. 22, Mission Valley Drug Task Force and federal authorities arrested Michael Robi...
News from the Lake County Sheriff PABLO — At approximately 4:10 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Lake County Dispatch received multiple 911 calls from the Northwood Trailer Park in Pablo, reporting that a dark colored SUV had just run over a 3-year-old child, causing the child's death. The SUV fl...
POLSON — A Polson man with numerous felony convictions is back in jail for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman after breaking into a Polson residence in the early morning hours of Sept. 17. Vaughn David James, 44, Polson, is being held in Lake County Jail on a $250,000 bond, charged with aggravate...
The Lake County Sheriff's Office helped rescue a 22-year-old Polson female abducted for 11 days. “The female met Terrance Tyrell Edwards over the Internet,” Sheriff Don Bell stated in a press release. Edwards allegedly offered the victim a well-paying job and lured her to the Missoula area....
