Sheriff’s deputy arrests fugitive in Missoula
A fugitive who was sought by the U.S. Marshal Service Violent Offender Task Force was arrested Thursday in Missoula.
The 50-year-old Ortega was under supervision by the state Probation and Parole Division after an October 2006 conviction for assault with a weapon in Teton County. The warrant was signed Aug. 7, 2008, alleging Ortega violated conditions of his probation by absconding from supervision.
Ortega is also wanted in Cascade County where he faces a felony charge for failing to register when he changed his address. Ortega is required to register because he is a convicted violent offender and sex offender.
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UM College of Technology to hold student orientation
The University of Montana College of Technology will hold new student orientation Jan. 22 at its East Campus, 909 South Ave. W.
All incoming freshman and transfer students who still need to meet their math requirement are asked to take the ALEKS math placement assessment before registering for a math course at COT. For more information, call COT Admissions or visit www.umt.edu/mathplacement/
cotmath.aspx.
In addition, the Montana Board of Regents requires all students to satisfy a writing proficiency standard demonstrated with a score from ACT, SAT or Montana University System Writing Assessment exams. Students who do not have one of these scores should take the COMPASS E-Write writing placement assessment. Those who need to take the writing assessment should check in at the COT Administration Building at 7 a.m. The exam begins promptly at 7:30 a.m.
Students who already have taken the assessment should check in to the Administration Building by 8:30 a.m. A welcoming ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. in COT Health and Business Building, Room HB01.
To RSVP for the Jan. 22 orientation or for more information, call 243-7882 or 1-800-542-6882, visit www.cte.umt.edu or e-mail cotadmissions@umontana.edu.
Missoulian
Hamilton man wins $100,000 in lottery
HELENA (AP) - A Hamilton man, Robert Pfutzenreuter, has claimed a $100,000 prize from the Jan. 2 Montana Millionaire drawing.
Pfutzenreuter bought his winning ticket at a Town Pump in Hamilton.
Pfutzenreuter said he doesn’t usually play lottery games, except for an occasional Montana Cash ticket. But he liked the odds of winning in Montana Millionaire, and decided it was worth trying it.
Pfutzenreuter moved to Hamilton about a year and a half ago, after retiring as a research technician at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
Bus driver allegedly asked student to hide her alcohol
BILLINGS (AP) - A school bus driver who stopped at a liquor store while on her morning route in mid-December allegedly asked a middle school student to hide her purchase before police boarded the bus, district superintendent Jack Copps said.
Copps said someone spotted the bus at the liquor store on Dec. 12 and called authorities. No students were on the bus at the time, he said.
By the time officers caught up with the bus, the driver had picked up some middle school students and allegedly asked one student to hide a paper bag with bottles of alcohol near the back of the bus, Copps said.
“You can’t make things like this up,” Copps said. “If we were trying to think of something that could be one of the strangest things that could possibly happen in the school district, this is it.”
Copps said it does not appear the driver had been drinking. The incident is still being investigated and no charges had been filed Wednesday.
Copps said the school immediately notified its bus contractor, First Student, that the woman was not to transport any of the district’s students. She quit her job earlier this week.
School district policy prohibits alcohol on school property or in vehicles transporting students. Copps described the incident as “embarrassing to the district.”
Tooley formally introduced as chief of Highway Patrol
HELENA (AP) - Col. Michael Tooley was formally introduced Thursday as the 17th chief of the Montana Highway Patrol.
Tooley was born in Havre and graduated from Helena Capital High School. He attended Carroll College and was sworn into the Highway Patrol in 1984. He became District 7 commander in 2002 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 2004.
At a Helena ceremony, Attorney General Steve Bullock promoted Tooley to colonel and introduced him as patrol chief.
Tooley holds a bachelor’s degree in public safety administration from Grand Canyon University and was a member of the Harvard Senior Executives in State and Local Government Class of 2006. He’s a 2008 graduate of the FBI National Academy.
He succeeds Paul Grimstad who, after 25 years of service including four as chief, is leaving the Highway Patrol.
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