A 9-year-old child with special medical needs from Billings is being held at the Havre Border Patrol Station after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol made an unlawful arrest earlier this month, according to a petition filed in the U.S. District Court of Montana. Federal agents detained parent Adrián Espinoza De La Cruz and the child […]
Sigal Chattah, who has remained atop Nevada’s U.S. Attorney’s office even though her appointment expired a year ago, is illegally holding on to the post, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Monday. The three-judge panel upheld U.S. District Judge David Campbell’s disqualification of Chattah’s participation in prosecutions, The case, Judge Eric Miller wrote, […]
JESSE SLAUGHTER, BRIAN HEINO, DAN SPRINGER, STEVE HOLTON and KENT O'DONNELL
As Montana sheriffs with decades of experience protecting our communities, we know what real support for law enforcement looks like. We have worked alongside federal prosecutors, coordinated task forces against drug trafficking, violent crime, and internet crimes against children. We have seen firsthand which leaders deliver real results.
The announcements from the U.S. Attorney’s Office came just days after a federal judge sentenced a man to prison and ordered him to pay back $181,000 to a Joliet resident.Â
A CNN report this week sheds new light on the brutal tactics and alleged deceptions of immigration agents during Operation Metro Surge, when some 3,000 feds were sent to Minnesota in what the Department of Homeland Security called its biggest enforcement operation ever. “The prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office, who had previously as a […]
