County Attorney says Crime Last Week was Busiest of the Year

Last week was the busiest week of the year for law enforcement responding to crime, with a total of 26 criminal charges, Missoula County prosecutor Kirsten Pabst said on Friday’s talk back show.

“We have accused a strangulation and a PFMA (Partner or Family Member Assault),” said Pabst. “Five of them participated in violence among people who are not related. In one case, we charged a minor with assault, grievous bodily harm, which involved an altercation between a child, a woman, and a father and their neighbors over a barking dog that deteriorated fairly quickly. We charged another attack with a weapon, a heavy attack and then two more attacks with a gun case. “

Pabst said there was also a troubling case of a man who was on his way to establishing relationships with what he believed to be a 13-year-old minor.

“We have been charged with a sex crime and the allegation is child sexual abuse,” she said. “There was no actual sacrifice. The defendant allegedly went to a place to meet a fictional 13-year-old girl for sexual activity. “

Pabst said there are also many nonviolent crimes.

“There have been five new property offenses,” she said. “Three of them involved a group of people, a family, who allegedly walked around town and broke into mailboxes that were both locked and unlocked, using checks, cash and sensitive identification information taken from those mailboxes.”

She said there were also a number of drug offenses.

“We calculated nine in the drug category,” she said. “There was one heroin case, two methamphetamine cases, and two involving both meth and heroin. And finally, last but not least, we charged the failure to change address by a sexual or violent offender. In this case, the defendant was allegedly a non-law sex offender convicted of soliciting a child from the state of Colorado. “

Pabst acknowledged that the vast majority of the crimes her law firm prosecuted were related in some way to illegal drugs, mostly methamphetamine.

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