Montana State Crime Lab

Lake County Sheriff Don Bell released details on Thursday afternoon of a suspected homicide that occurred near Ronan on October 8.

The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the discovery of a body near the old Smurfitt-Stone Mill near Frenchtown at about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday.

35 year-old Aaron Thiel of Ronan was struck by a vehicle late Friday night after standing in the middle of the road and allegedly waving a rifle at a person in traffic.

Last Thursday, a gathering of law enforcement officials in Missoula laid out the goals and successes of a program called the ‘Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative’ to fight crime in Missoula County.

On February 23, KGVO reported that Derek Thrush, a former chemist at the Montana State Crime Lab in Missoula, had allegedly stolen samples of methamphetamine for his own use.

The bones recovered form a shed in Missoula that were being investigated as possibly belong to three missing children from Michigan, have now been confirmed as ‘historical’.

Missoula County Sheriff and Coroner T.J. McDermott has released the names of the two victims of gunshot wounds on Monday afternoon in a residence behind Roper's Lounge west of Lolo.

Missoula man Charged With Deliberate Homicide for Allegedly Smothering five month old infant

Lake County Sheriff Don Bell issued the following press release from Polson: "On the afternoon of June 2,, the Lake County Sheriff's Office was notified of a deceased human body discovered in a camper on Coombs Lane in Arlee.

An unidentified body is currently being recovered from the Clark Fork River not far from the Reserve Street Bridge.