The FBI is asking for the public’s help to find two women who are wanted for their alleged involvement in a home invasion and robbery that took place in Helena.
The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office and the Missoula Police Department, working with the FBI and the Montana Regional Violent Crimes Unit raided a house outside Missoula early Tuesday morning, detaining six individuals, charging two with federal drug offenses.
At a press conference in Missoula on Friday, U.S. Attorney for the State of Montana, Mike Cotter, announced that an operation in western Montana had been completed that convicted eight defendants for methamphetamine distribution and illegal firearms possession.
The FBI is keeping mum on details of the death of a Great Falls woman who told her family she had been kidnapped before being shot to death in the trunk of her car.
While the FBI is following up leads in the search for a suspect in the killing of Rita Maze, whose body was found Wednesday morning in the trunk of a car in Spokane after apparently being abducted in Montana, Spokane officials say they have not taken anyone into custody.
33 year-old Carissa Lynn Kopp was arrested not long after Thomas Dempsey and Nick West in relation to the robbery and carjacking incident that occurred on Friday, May 27, as an accomplice in the incident.