Arson

Hunched over in a wheelchair, clutching a blanket and mumbling answers to a public defender, 57 year-old Guy Culligan made his first Justice Court appearance via video from the Missoula County Jail on Friday afternoon.

In addition to all the new cases this week, the County Attorney’s Office is still heavily involved with the Jonathan Bertsch case.

At around 7:00 Saturday morning, law enforcement was dispatched to a structure fire located in the Blue Mountain Trailer Park.

The Missoula County Sheriff’s Department has been helping to investigate what caused the Nine Mile House near Huson to burn down last December and Detective Captain David Conway says the investigation is closed.

The Missoula County Attorney’s Office is currently dealing with a case where multiple types of arson are involved.

A Sunday morning fire at an apartment complex on S.O.S. road near Seeley Lake has led to an arson investigation.

The cause of the Cabin Gulch Fire is still under investigation, but today, July 23, Broadwater County Attorney Corey Swanson Filed Arson charges in a case related to that fire.

The man accused of starting a fire in his room at the Motel 6 on East Broadway on Sunday appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Tuesday afternoon.

A fire that broke out at the Majestic Valley Arena near Kalispell last Saturday night, January 3, appears to have been no accident.

Flathead County officials are probing whether a fire that damaged the Majestic Valley Arena was caused by arson.