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The actions of a Crow Nation police officer were in question at the Supreme Court. Crow NationThe Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the sovereign power of American Indian tribes on June 1, 2021, ruling that tribal police officers have the power to temporarily detain and search non-Indians on public rights-of-way through American Indian lands. In most communities in the United States, the local government has the authority to investigate and prosecute both misdemeanor and felony crimes. And loca

U.S. Highway 550 runs from Montrose, Colo., to Bernailillo, N.M. If you drive all 300 miles of it, you'll weave in and out of tribal land more than a...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed Native American tribal police powers, backing the authority of a tribal officer in Montana to stop and search a non-Native American motorist on a public road on reservation land. The justices ruled 9-0 against Joshua James Cooley in his effort to contest drug and weapons charges brought against him after a Crow tribal police officer found methamphetamine and firearms in his vehicle on a roadside on reservation land in 2016. The ruling means tribal police have at least some powers to conduct initial investigatory traffic stops involving non-tribe mem...

Officer Saylor noted that Cooley’s eyes were bloodshot and he had firearms in the vehicle. The officer called for backup, including an officer from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. They later found methamphetamine in the truck. A federal grand jury indicted Cooley on gun and drug offenses in 2016, but he moved to suppress the evidence, arguing that the Crow Police Department lacked authority to investigate him as a non-Indian on a public right-of-way through the reservation. The lower courts ruled in favor of Cooley, but the government took the case to the Supreme Court and overturned ...

U.S. Highway 550 runs from Montrose, Colo., to Bernailillo, N.M. If you drive all 300 miles of it, you'll weave in and out of tribal land more than a dozen