Missoula Justice Court

Eight year-old Carli Miller was killed in a two-vehicle collision on Highway 12 in July of 2017 when then 21 year-old Aaron Pattan fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his Toyota pickup truck into the Miller family’s vehicle.

When a defendant appears in Missoula Justice Court, there is no court stenographer to capture every word that is said during the court appearance, so the Justice Courts have not been official ‘courts of record’.

Three men and a woman in their 20’s were all arrested in a major drug bust on Thursday.

60 year-old Darrell Davis appeared via video from the Missoula County Jail on Monday as the second defendant in a HIDTA Drug Task Force arrest that occurred last Tuesday at a home on Mullan Trail.

35 year-old Ryan Charlo was arrested on Thursday and charged with DUI, in addition to felony criminal child endangerment after being pulled over with an 11 year-old child in the back seat.

41 year-old Nathan Hardin was arrested on Sunday after allegedly driving drunk, and when being transported to the hospital for a blood draw, also allegedly made threats against the arresting officer’s family.

A Missoula man, 48 year-old Brett Baldassin was arrested over the weekend and charged with his fourth DUI, a felony.

36 year-old Aaron Beadle is in the Missoula County Jail on $10,000 bond after allegedly beating and strangling a woman and two boys.

25 year-old Michael Pirker is in the Missoula County Jail on $10,000 bond after allegedly threatening his former girlfriend with a knife.

24 year-old Brett Beierle is in the Missoula County Jail on $25,000 bond for allegedly raping an acquaintance in 2017.