Prosecutors have reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Raymond Hitchcock for the misdemeanor charge of theft of property by embezzlement. Hitchcock was employed at the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office for 27 years, becoming the captain of operations before retiring in June 2017, according to court documents. He is accused of taking a weapon with him after retiring that had been

By Jenn Rowell, The Electric, and Margaret Demarco, KRTV Cascade County is making changes to financial and equipment purchasing policies after a series of criminal investigations exposed shortcomings in the system. The Electric and KRTV have teamed up to look into the investigations and issues at the county level that lead to these situations and how they’re being corrected. Since

The kitchen at the Adult Detention Center is scheduled for repairs later this month and will be unusable for food preparation during that time. On Friday, the County Commission approved a $14,855 contract with Yellowstone Kelly’s Catering Company of Billings to lease their mobile kitchen Mat 18-27, plus additional fees for fuel, propane and usage of the generator and refrigerator

A federal judge sentenced Michele Levesey Woods, also known as Michele Levesey Saubak, to three months in prison on a count of theft from a program receiving federal funds. Woods plead guilty in January to taking $31,614.37 in cash over a period of about two years while she was employed as an accountant at the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office. Former

Raymond Hitchcock made an initial appearance in Justice Court on April 29 and entered a not guilty plea. Hitchcock is a former Cascade County Sheriff’s Office deputy and in late March was charged with a single count of misdemeanor theft by embezzlement. Hitchcock requested a jury trial for his case and Justice of the Peace Mary Jolley told him that it

Prosecutors in the Montana Attorney General’s Office requested that a new judge be substituted for Judge Elizabeth Best in the criminal case against former undersheriff John Stevens. Stevens has been charged with a count of felony theft in district court for taking firearms that had been purchased with county funds with him when he retired from the Cascade County Sheriff’s

Steven Wayne Keefe was 88 days shy of his 18th birthday when he murdered three people in 1985 in Great Falls. In 1986, he was convicted and sentenced to a life sentence for each count of deliberate homicide and 10 years for a count of burglary. He was sentenced to additional 10 years per count since the crime was committed