Billings Crime

The Gazette reports that prosecutors have declined to press charges in the shooting death of a Billings man in 2015, saying a jury would likely find the suspect’s self-defense claim credible. The decision not to file charges was outlined in a letter from Senior Deputy County Attorney Julie Patten and Deputy Chief County Attorney Ed Zink to Captain Jeremy House of the Billings Police Department...

Two men were hospitalized on Tuesday morning after an as-yet unidentified assailant climbed through the back window of their home and stabbed both of them. The suspect, a 19-year-old man who is known to the victims, remains at large, according to Billings Police Sgt...

The man accused of stealing an ATM from the La Quinta Inn and Suites last year also stole an ATM from a different Billings hotel about a month earlier. Police say Anthony Felton recently confessed that someone helped him open and dispose of another ATM he stole on Halloween from the Red Lion Hotel in October 2017...

The murder rate in Billings decreased significantly in 2017 from 2015, but according to the annual Billings police report released Thursday, robberies, rapes and police shootings have increased dramatically over that same time period. Go to; KTVQ...

Q2 reports that an evidence technician for the Billings Police Department has been fired after she admitted to stealing close to 1,000 pills collected as evidence in 138 cases. Chief Rich St. John said, on Tuesday, that 38-year-old Rawlyn Strizich admitted to the theft days before a scheduled audit in January and was fired on February 6th...

25-year-old Colton Edwards of Billings was charged Tuesday with raping a teenage girl, to whom he allegedly gave money to remain quiet about it. Edwards was charged in Yellowstone County Justice Court with two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and one count of sexual assault...

The Gazette reports a jury in Billings on Wednesday convicted a Missoula man of trafficking women and minors for sex and other crimes following an investigation into interstate prostitution. The federal court panel in the court of U.S...

Billings police have arrested 35-year-old Antonio Gutierrez and 30-year-old Christopher Esry of Billing in connection to a casino robbery. Q2 reports that shortly before midnight Monday, a man entered Dotty’s Casino at 4010 Montana Sapphire Drive with a handgun and demanded money...

20-year-old Dylan Curtin of Billings was imprisoned Sunday for allegedly raping a teenage girl behind Hobby Lobby during her lunch break. Curtin is charged in Yellowstone County Justice Court with one count of sexual intercourse without consent...

The Gazette reports that a man was arrested Thursday night after leading law enforcement on a high-speed car chase through Billings’ Heights and crashing into a fence along Lake Elmo. The chase began earlier in the evening when Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Darvin Mees tried to pull over a pickup for not stopping at a stoplight in the Heights...