Cascade County Commissioners approved a three-year agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service for housing federal inmates in the Cascade County Adult Detention Center. The new contract increases the daily rate that federal agencies pay the county per inmate per day from $115 to $130. That’s less than the $160 daily rate that Sheriff Jesse Slaughter was seeking. The new contract
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Joshua Lively, 33, a Cascade County Sheriff’s Office detention officer, has been arrested and charged with a felony count of intimidation and misdemeanor counts of partner/family member assault, endangering the welfare of a child and surreptitious visual observation or recording. The arrest is the third Cascade County detention officer to be arrested for domestic violence incidents in the last year.
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Two of the six men arrested in a September prostitution sting appeared in court last week. Both were arraigned before Judge John Parker on Oct. 28 in district court. Kenneth Jacobs, 50, was charged with a felony count of sexual abuse of children after responding to a Craigslist ad on Sept. 11, believing he was chatting with a 15-year-old boy.
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Zaviyar Gilbreath, 21, was charged in late October with two felony counts of assault with a weapon after threatening people with a knife at an Elk Ridge Recovery location in downtown Great Falls. Around noon on Oct. 9, Great Falls Police officers were dispatched to 11 5th St. N., where Gilbreath was attending class with eight other people in a
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Updated Nov. 3 at 11 a.m. Malmstrom Air Force Base identified the name of the airman killed in a weekend shooting as Airman 1st Class Aldo Ortiz Perez. He was assigned to the 341st Missile Security Forces Squadron at Malmstrom. “The loss of Airman 1st Class Aldo Ortiz Perez is felt throughout the Malmstrom community,” Col. David Wyrick, 341st Missile
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Updated at 1:30 p.m. with information from a court hearing Jeremy Raskiewicz, 46, has been charged with deliberate homicide. According to the Great Falls Police Department, officers were dispatched around 1:30 a.m. Oct. 31 for a welfare check in the 2300 block of 11th Avenue South. Raskiewicz was booked into the Cascade County Adult Detention Center at 10:32 a.m. Oct.
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Local agencies have been working for two years to rebuild a local crisis intervention system. That effort is moving forward as abatement work is set to begin within the next few weeks on the second floor of the Indian Family Health Clinic at 1220 Central Ave. for a crisis center. The idea is to create an open space with recliners,
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More than two years after an assault in a downtown alley left a man with a severe brain injury, Ethanel Pherigo was sentenced on Oct. 29 to 40 years in Montana State Prison. As Judge John Parker announced the sentence, Pherigo’s mother stood up behind him and began to audibly sob. After Pherigo was led out of the courtroom by
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County Commissioners have scheduled a special meeting for Nov. 2 to consider awarding a construction contract for the repair of Evans-Riceville Road, which has been closed since a June slide. “The timeline for this contract is intended to complete the major subsurface work before winter weather sets in, making the road structurally sound enough to be plowed and maintained throughout
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City Commissioners approved a new two-year labor agreement with the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 8, which includes 64 sworn firefighters at Great Falls Fire Rescue. The new agreement is for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, with a six percent wage increase in each year. The next collective bargaining session is set to start again in April
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