sexual assault

The Missoula County Sheriff's Office is searching for a suspect in an unsolved sexual assault case involving a 27-year-old woman and a male in his mid to late 20s who offered to take the woman home from Boomers bar in Missoula on October 23rd.

29 year-old Jared Fruend, the man accused of sexually assaulting two young girls, ages 4 and 5 on September 29th, has been sent to the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs for a psychological evaluation.

A Lake county man, 22 year-old Lawrence Mays, was arrested and charged Wednesday with two counts of sexual abuse of children.

A Missoula woman, 32 year-old Carolynn Nina Roberts, has been taken into custody and is being charged with felony incest and misdemeanor unlawful restraint.

29 year-old Jared Fruend was arrested on Saturday, September 29th for allegedly having sexual contact with two young girls, ages 4 and 5, while the parents were out of the house for a short time.

No community is immune to the threat of sexual assault, and the first step toward protecting ourselves and our neighbors is having an open conversation about what's really going on.