crime

We happened to get an e-mail this morning telling us about crimemapping.com. I highly recommend that you visit this website and punch in your zip code.

While estimates show only 1 of every 23.5 cases are reported, a new study suggests elder fraud is costing American seniors more than $27.4 Billion a year.

Using 2018 FBI data from more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies in cities with populations over 2,500, SafeHome.org has ranked the 25 Safest Cities in Montana.

Using annual data released by the FBI, SafeHome.org released a study of the states with the most break-in's and ranked Montana #34 with 344.1 per 100,000 people.

Q2 reports that Montana U.S. Sen. Jon Tester has introduced a bill he believes will help cut down on illegal drug use and crime in Montana. He is sponsoring the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting Drugs Act also known as the ANTI-Drugs Act...

Missoula Pita Pit Co-owner Chris Butz has seen a lot of things during the night shift and as an owner of a downtown establishment, but he says he never experienced anything like the aftermath of what happened when a store employee was filmed spitting into a pita during a late-night spat with custome…

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 i…

Now that the Billings police department has added some new officers, city manager Tina Volek wants them to crack down on people driving and using their cell phones. That should not be the priority of the police. Billings has more important issues than a woman or man talking to each other...

Billings continues to be a very safe place to live, but a couple of stats stood out for me from the Billings Police Department's 2015 Annual Report.

I don't know when the state Legislature is going to do something to prevent these people from ever driving again, but it's certainly past time for it.

Throwing elbows and tripping people over reduced priced Playstation 4's is an honored annual American tradition. Which states are going to attempt to keep that dream alive this year?
 
According to Estately, these are the states in which you are more than likely going to end up getting into …

Within minutes of the Billings Morning News reporting that a Billings Boy Scout Troop had been robbed, individuals and businesses opened their wallets for an impromptu fundraising effort for Boy Scout Troop 10.
The outpouring of support helped raise at least $1,200 to help replenish some of the troop…