Cut Bank man admits pointing a rifle at and threatening three people
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and last updated 2021-07-22 19:15:09-04
GREAT FALLS â Harrison Garrett Alvarez of Cut Bank, an off-duty federal law enforcement officer accused of pointing a rifle at three Blackfeet tribal employees who were testing water on his property, admitted to assault charges in federal court in Great Falls on Thursday, according to a news release from Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson.
Alvarez, 30 years old, who is a Customs & Border Protection officer, pleaded guilty to three counts of simple assault.
Prosecutors allege that on July 24, 2019, three employees of the Blackfeet Tribeâs Environmental Office went to Alvarezâs property outside of Cut Bank, and within the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, to field test water in Cut Bank Creek. The victims traveled by truck past Alvarezâs house to the creek. The trip was the victimsâ fourth time to that testing site that season, having requested
An off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer admitted to threatening 3 tribal employees with a rifle, telling them he shoots first, asks questions later
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Browning man sentenced for murder and kidnapping
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and last updated 2021-07-21 19:08:14-04
GREAT FALLS â Jason Avery Mattson of Browning, who admitted murdering a man and then holding a woman hostage at knife-point, was sentenced in federal court in Great Falls on Wednesday.
Mattson, 30 years old,
pleaded guilty on March 30 to second degree murder and to kidnapping as charged in an indictment.
Prosecutors said that on March 3, 2020, law enforcement officers were called to a clearing near Cut Bank Creek, near the Boarding School community on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, after a body was found.
The body was identified as John Doe and family was notified of his death. An autopsy confirmed the manner of death as homicide and determined that Doe sustained blunt force injury to his back and extremities and that there was evidence on the neck consistent with strangulation or blunt force injury.