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ARTICLES BY DERRICK PERKINS

Suspected murderer testifies in double homicide trial

A distraught Derrick James Jackson told jurors Friday that he killed Stanley Grotberg after the 65-year-old shot dead Jackson’s mother in the trio’s Bigfork home in October 2022.
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Double homicide investigation focused on Jackson early on, detective says

Investigators nearly from the start considered Derrick James Jackson the main suspect in the October 2022 murders of his 62-year-old mother and her 65-year-old partner, a detective who worked the case testified Thursday.
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Defense attorneys in double homicide trial question investigation

Defense attorneys began working in earnest on Wednesday to cast doubt on the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office’s investigation into a 2022 double homicide in Bigfork.
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Jurors view body cam footage in Jackson double homicide trial

Jurors in the Derrick James Jackson double homicide trial watched video footage Tuesday of deputies discovering the bodies of Stanley Grotberg and Tricia DeMotts inside their Bigfork home in October 2022.
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Trial underway in Bigfork double homicide

Prosecutors on Monday told jurors that they could link accused killer Derrick James Jackson to the gun used in the shooting death of his mother and her partner in Bigfork in 2022.
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Trial underway in Bigfork double homicide

Prosecutors on Monday told jurors that they could link accused killer Derrick James Jackson to the gun used in the shooting death of his mother and her partner in Bigfork in 2022.
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Flathead man sentenced for 2023 killing of homeless man in Kalispell

The Flathead Valley man charged in the murder of a homeless man in the parking lot of a Kalispell gas station in 2023 was sentenced Monday to serve time at the Montana State Prison.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 DAYS, 17 HOURS AGO

Suspected burglar caught on remote camera feed

Levi Thomas Hiebert, 36, is expected to be arraigned on a felony charge of burglary and a misdemeanor count of theft before Judge Paul Sullivan on April 3.
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Suspect arrested in Aspen Court standoff given suspended sentences

Judge Heidi Ulbricht handed down concurrent five-year sentences for aggravated burglary and criminal possession of dangerous drugs, both suspended, on Jan. 9 to Benjamin Kulina
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Arrested for public urination, man allegedly threatens Whitefish Police officer

A man arrested for allegedly peeing behind a Whitefish bus stop earlier this month is accused of threatening the police officer who took him to county jail.
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Arrested for public urination, man allegedly threatens Whitefish Police officer

A man arrested for allegedly peeing behind a Whitefish bus stop earlier this month is accused of threatening the police officer who took him to county jail.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 2 WEEKS, 2 DAYS AGO

Husband brought up on felony charge after allegedly assaulting and strangling his wife

Malakai Steven Long, 20, pleaded not guilty before Judge Paul Sullivan at his March 13 arraignment.
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Mother faces felony charge for allegedly driving under the influence with child in the car

A Kalispell woman was allegedly under the influence of multiple substances when she crashed the vehicle that she and her young child were in last fall.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 2 WEEKS, 3 DAYS AGO

Flathead Valley contractor to pay $200K to customers he allegedly defrauded

Nathaniel Gevern Lewis, through his construction businesses NGL Construction and From the Ground Up Construction, took customers' payment and then failed to complete the work, said Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen on March 12.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 2 WEEKS, 4 DAYS AGO

Flathead Valley contractor to pay $200K to customers he allegedly defrauded

Nathaniel Gevern Lewis, through his construction businesses NGL Construction and From the Ground Up Construction, took customers' payment and then failed to complete the work, said Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen on March 12.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 WEEKS AGO

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