Hunched over in a wheelchair, clutching a blanket and mumbling answers to a public defender, 57 year-old Guy Culligan made his first Justice Court appearance via video from the Missoula County Jail on Friday afternoon.
The Missoula County Sheriff’s Department has been helping to investigate what caused the Nine Mile House near Huson to burn down last December and Detective Captain David Conway says the investigation is closed.
The cause of the Cabin Gulch Fire is still under investigation, but today, July 23, Broadwater County Attorney Corey Swanson Filed Arson charges in a case related to that fire.
At about 3 a.m. Sunday morning, September 29, the Missoula Fire Department was called out to a blaze that started in the first level of the city parking garage.
Elwood Friedrich, 23, appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Monday and was charged with arson, after allegedly setting two fires in the restroom at Barnes and Noble bookstore.
A Deer Lodge man, Birch Bergeson, 25, appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Monday, January 6, charged with starting a fire that damaged the Missoula Senior Citizen Center on April 12, 2013.