The three individuals convicted of carjacking and armed robbery last spring are being held in Ravalli County to face more charges, including aggravated kidnapping and robbery.
Since Talk Back is on vacation until after the first of the year, Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst was kind enough to deliver her weekly report to this reporter on the phone on Thursday morning.
33 year-old Carissa Lynn Kopp was arrested not long after Thomas Dempsey and Nick West in relation to the robbery and carjacking incident that occurred on Friday, May 27, as an accomplice in the incident.
The Washington State woman whose family was carjacked last Friday in Missoula and lived through a terrifying high speed chase, and kissed her children goodbye not knowing if she would ever see them again, spoke to KGVO news about her ordeal from her home.
Thomas Dempsey and Nicholas West appeared before U.S. District Judge Jeremiah Lynch yesterday to face five felonies in relation to a carjacking and armed robbery in Missoula last Friday.
The two men who allegedly robbed a casino, carjacked a family from Washington State and fired shots at pursuing law enforcement personnel last Friday morning appeared in U.S. Justice Court on Tuesday.
Late Friday night, Thomas Dempsey and Nick West were arrested for the robbery of a Missoula casino and for carjacking a Washington family at gunpoint almost 24 hours earlier. They will appear in justice court today.