Yellowstone County Justice Court

Q2 reports that the technician fired by the Billings Police Department for stealing drugs from evidence in February was charged Tuesday in Yellowstone County Justice Court with tampering with public records or information. 38-year-old Rawlyn Strizich admitted to stealing close to 1,000 pills collected as evidence in over 130 criminal cases...

The Billings Gazette reports that a local immigrant rights group claimed on Monday that a Montana judge acted illegally when he asked a deputy to take away from his court a Mexican-born man who was later detained by federal immigration authorities...

A man with four prior convictions for felony domestic violence was charged with partner or family member assault Monday.  49-year-old Dondi Woodrow Whittaker was arrested and charged with his fifth domestic violence-related offense in Yellowstone County Justice Court, where he appeared before a judge...

34-year-old Marlon Daunte Thomas appeared in Yellowstone County Justice Court this week on charges of aggravated promotion of prostitution and promoting prostitution.   In Billings, a 17-year-old girl was reportedly being prostituted, and Thomas, who is believed by prosecutors to be the girl’s pimp, was arrested on Friday, November 4th...

Jeffrey Alan Merritt-Angst, the man charged in the serious head trauma to a 9-week old baby, has admitted during police interrogation to throwing the infant four-to-five feet, causing the child’s head to strike the floor.  He said he’d thrown his girlfriend’s 9-week-old infant toward a bed...

A 27-year-old man is accused of sending sexually explicit photographs to a 14-year-old girl.  Stephan Gregory Burress, was charged Monday in Yellowstone County Justice Court with sexual abuse of children.  Justice of the Peace David Carter ordered Burress held in lieu of $100,000 bond and had him placed on GPS monitoring should he be released...

Garrett Lee Crandell of Laurel has been charged as one of the two men suspected in the death of Clinton Old Bull last fall.  The 28-year old Crandell appeared Tuesday in Yellowstone County Justice Court, charged with one count of deliberate homicide...

A woman has been charged with whipping her 14-year-old son during a domestic altercation with her ex-husband.  42 year old Karen Janice Boucher appeared in Yellowstone County Justice Court on two counts of assault with a weapon and two counts of partner family member assault...

The accused purse-snatcher who crushed a Good Samaritan with his van was in Yellowstone County Justice Court on Thursday.  32-year-old Zachary Martin faces felony charges of robbery, assault with a weapon and criminal mischief, as well as two misdemeanor charges of theft...