U.S. President Donald Trump is going toe to toe with Montana Senior Senator Jon Tester after Admiral Ronny Johnson withdrew from being the nominee to head up the VA.
The Billings Gazette reports that two inmates at the Montana Women’s Prison are facing charges after prosecutors say they worked with a “low-level” California drug dealer to get narcotics into the prison. 31-year-old Angelene Tropp and 43-year-old Heather Byerly both face one felony count each of transferring illegal articles...
Q2 reports that a man implicated in a Billings man’s murder was arrested on drug charges Monday.
28-year-old Tyler Crawford made his initial appearance in court Wednesday on felony and misdemeanor drug charges. Billings police found Crawford slumped over in his vehicle Monday...
The Gazette reports that a Billings couple admitted Thursday that they had several pounds of methamphetamine in their home, as well as a storage unit, for the purpose of distribution. During yesterday’s hearings in U.S. District Court in Billings, 35-year-old Raymond Thomas Tetzlaff and his 36-year-old wife, Crystal Busby-Tetzlaff, each pleaded guilty to charges of possession with intent to distr
This case now involves a total of 15 generic drugs, and these drugs really kind of run the gamut: some of them treat glaucoma, some of them are antibiotics, there's high blood pressure medication, diabetes medication, and on and on.
The opioid abuse epidemic, now officially a public health crisis, has not spared Montana, with powerful, deadly drugs now hitting the region. Fentanyl is a synthetic opiod between 50 and 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...