Arson

Missoula Police Officers were called to assist with a fire at a residence in the 1300 block of Defoe Street.

The Missoula County Attorney’s Office filed 19 new felony criminal complaints this week.

The fire that killed three people in a Corvallis apartment building early Monday morning has been ruled by fire marshals and investigators as arson, and a homicide investigation is underway

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.