Possession of methamphetamine, heroin, morphine, oxycodone, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and over $2,000 cash have landed 35 year-old Darrin Reber in the Missoula County Jail on $50,000 bail.
Early Friday morning, 61 year-old Steven Spanbauer was driving from Spokane on his way to Coon Rapids, Minnesota, when he rolled his pickup truck at mile marker 89 and nearly 35 pounds of marijuana, packaged in dozens of plastic bags, spilled out onto the highway.
Judge Karen Orzech took the unusual step of increasing, and even doubling bail amounts requested by the state on three defendants who appeared via video from the Missoula County Jail on Monday.
25 year-old Anthony Bessette is in the Missoula County Jail on $80,000 bail, after appearing before Judge Karen Orzech in Justice Court to hear his fourth open felony drug charge.
Court records indicate that Bessette was arrested while in possession of methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana...
A female University of Montana student, 18 year-old Virginia Marie Ervin, appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Monday to face felony drug and tampering with evidence charges, along with a misdemeanor child endangerment charge, after a drug explosion that occurred on October 12.
Patrick Wayne Austin appeared in Missoula Justice Court via video from the Missoula County Jail before Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech on Tuesday afternoon, charged with numerous felonies.
An effort to create hash oil by heating marijuana with butane was the cause of Sunday's explosion at the University apartments on Yreka Court, near the University of Montana Golf Course Clubhouse.