Sheriff's Deputy

MTN News reports a deputy with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office came under fire on Tuesday afternoon during an attempted traffic stop. According to the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office, the incident occurred at 3:30 p.m., where the deputy was fired at by the as-yet-unidentified suspect, but was not injured...

CNN reports that a 5-month-old baby was left partially buried in the Montana mountains for at least nine hours before being discovered by a Missoula County Sheriff’s deputy, who heard the “faint cry of a baby” and followed the sound, only to find the child alive, buried face down under a pile of sticks and debris...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man's desire for a souvenir of his ride in a sheriff's car got him another ride — to jail. Two Missoula County deputies gave 23-year-old Dexter Frey a ride from a Bonner gas station, where he had a drunken fight with his girlfriend, to a Missoula grocery store on Wednesday so Frey could walk home...