billings police department

It's Sunday morning fights on the rims...Here's the backstory on the photos.

Now that was fast. A surveillance camera screenshot was put out to the public, and Billings Police very quickly found the kidnapping and stolen vehicle suspect...and the children unharmed.

Gunshots were reported when an adult male and a juvenile male allegedly attempted to steal cases of BuzzBallz from a business on Grand Avenue in Billings, MT.

Somewhere around 5 a.m. Monday morning I was prepping for my radio show in the Montana Talks studio at the top floor of the Doubletree when Mark Wilson of Cat Country pops in. "We just saw the Billings Police ram a vehicle across the street from the hotel," he told me.

An 18-year-old male and a 17-year-old juvenile male have been arrested in connection to a string of vehicle vandalism in Billings last weekend.

Funded by donations, Billings' Shop With a Cop children get an experience they'll remember forever, including a $350 shopping trip with a positive role model.

After 3 days, the child has been found.

Two residences were hit in total, and the cases appear to be connected.

After hearing our coverage on the youth violence taking place in Montana, one Billings mom decided to share her heartbreaking and frustrating story. Her open letter is below.

I've had enough with the FAKE NEWS out of our police departments. Education is key, after all.

Why are we seeing gang activity in a state like Montana? What role do the Mexican drug cartels play? We caught up with Stacy Zinn who recently retired as the head of the DEA here in Montana.

This week in Farmer Finishers, not much good news.