Montana Morning State News Headlines for Tuesday, June 1
Missoula Police Public Information Officer Travis Welsh granted KGVO one last interview before he retired on Friday.
As part of the weekly crime report on Friday s Talk Back program, County Attorney Kirsten Pabst said one of the many felonies involved a 7 year-old child who said her father was hitting her mother.
Mostly sunny in western Montana today, with highs in the mid 80 s.
The Missoula County Attorney’s Office filed 29 new criminal complaints this week and that is the most they have reported so far this year. According to County Attorney Kirsten Pabst, all of those crimes didn’t necessarily occur this week, but she said most of them did. Nine of those cases involved some form of violence.
“One of those involved an assault with a weapon times two, criminal endangerment, and assault with a bodily fluid,” Pabst said. “In that case, the defendant was allegedly threatening people will brass knuckles. When law enforcement arrived, he allegedly drove 80 miles per hour through a residential neighborhood. There was another altercation that took place in a bar. In another case, the defendant allegedly assaulted their roommate because the dishes had not been done.”
Make it Stop! Montana Mom Charged with Child Endangerment and DUI
The media tends to focus on the growing epidemics like gun violence or police brutality. When statistically those epidemics are rather small numbers compared to even more deadly crimes taking place in our own communities. Child endangerment cases have seemed to be growing as of lately. Why? Is it because of the pandemic and parents forced to homeschool kids? Is it a substance abuse problem? Is it our own legislation failing to do what is right? Well, it is probably a combination of a lot of different things. But, it needs to STOP.