Partner or Family Member Assault

An Arlee man, 47 year-old Stanley Oliver is in the Missoula County Jail on $25,000 after being charged with strangling and woman and kneeing her in the face which resulted in several stitches at a local hospital.

A concerned neighbor called Missoula Police after hearing screaming and doors being slammed.

A University of Montana student is in the Missoula County Jail on $100,000 bond after being accused of beating and threatening a woman, and allegedly forcing her to sign a document so that ‘he wouldn’t hit her’.

49 year-old transient Scott Lee Asbury was held on $10,000 bond on Monday in Missoula Justice Court after allegedly beating a woman at the Poverello Center.

47 year-old Brett Humphrey is in the Missoula County Jail on $75,000 after allegedly pointing a gun in his victim’s face, as well as beating and strangling his victim with a dog’s choke chain at the Lolo Creek Campground on Sunday.

38 year-old Brian Chamberlain has been accused of aggravated assault, strangulation and partner of family member assault after allegedly threatening the life of his girlfriend, not once, but twice.

42 year-old Mark Layne is has been charged with felony aggravated assault after allegedly strangling his girlfriend several times and trying to gouge her eyes out with his thumbs.

Missoula Police were called to a domestic dispute late Wednesday night.

The Montana House of Representatives has passed their version of the state budget by a partisan vote of 59 to 41. It now heads to the Senate for consideration.

A Missoula woman is in the Missoula County Jail after allegedly beating her boyfriend with the flat side of a machete and then with her fists.