Project Safe Neighborhoods marks a successful 1st year
by Parker H. Jimison Just over one year ago, in an effort to combat the rise in rates of violent crime in Montana, Project Safe Neighborhoods began an effort to combat the causes of those crimes in and around Yellowstone County. Project Safe Neighborhoods is a revitalized US Department of Justice initiative that seeks to […]
U.S. Attorney: Arrests, drug seizures show Project Safe Neighborhoods is working
Originally published in the 10/19/18 print edition of Yellowstone County News. BILLINGS — In the past six months, law enforcement officers have charged 105 persons in federal and state court, seized 160 pounds of methamphetamine and confiscated 52 firearms from the Yellowstone County community as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federal program to […]