39 year-old Patrick Studley is in the Missoula County Jail charged with multiple felonies, including forgery, deceptive practices,issuing bad checks and identity theft on $160,000 bond.
President-elect Donald Trump has asked Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke to be the new Secretary of the Interior. CNN and Fox News have reported that Zinke has accepted, but no official announcement has been made.
21 year-old Davis Nelson Gibson appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Monday charged with theft, forgery, deceptive practices and identity theft, as part of a wide-ranging investigation that has claimed at least 47 victims in the Missoula area.
The Missoula County Sheriff's office received a call earlier this week from a couple who discovered their identities had been stolen when they attempted to file their income tax returns.
Montana's Insurance Commissioner plans to sign on to a national investigation of Anthem Insurance after a data breach put millions of customers at risk, including up to 48,000 Montanans.