MISSOULA ? A federal judge today sentenced a Belgrade man to two years and nine months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking investigation, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said?

GREAT FALLS ? An East Helena man who trafficked thousands of fentanyl pills and pounds of methamphetamine while also possessing firearms was sentenced on Oct. 29 to 11 years and four months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today?

HELENA ? A federal judge recently sentenced two Montana men to prison for trafficking about a pound of methamphetamine in the community, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today?

Tax Fraud

Pau Kim Ly, 52, of Jackson, Wyoming, was sentenced to four months? imprisonment and four months of home confinement with one year of supervised release for filing a false tax return. The court also ordered Ly to pay a total of $371?

The U.S. Attorney?s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until?