Hardin News

Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Billings, on October 21, 2009, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, VICKIE DIANE BECKER, a 49-year-old resident of Hardin, appeared for sentencing.

A Ravenhood mercenary from the CBS television show "Jericho" "Ravenwood" Comes To America An infowars.com article Chuck Baldwin October 10, 2009 Fans of the CBS-terminated TV series JERICHO will recognize the name "Ravenwood." This was the ruthless mercenary force used by the illegitimate federal government at Cheyenne to subjugate the citizens of ...

From The K-B-L-G News Center... 50-YEAR-OLD VICKIE D. BECKER OF HARDIN HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR STEALING MORE THAN 1.6-MILLION DOLLARS FROM FIRST INTERSTATE BANK IN HARDIN.

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Running out of money and with bills stacking up, officials in this struggling rural city are moving to mothball their empty 464-bed jail after a proposed takeover of the facility fizzled.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... HILTON CLAIMS HE HAS AN AGREEMENT TO LEASE 12-HUNDRED ACRES IN BIG HORN COUNTY FOR SUCH A FACILITY.

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An convicted con artist from California who roiled a southeastern Montana community with his unlikely bid to take over its empty jail says he intends to return to the state to pursue a military training center.

A number of parents and Crow Tribe members are demanding the resignation of Hardin School Superintendent Al Peterson.

Hardin, Mont., population 3,500, is just 15 miles northwest of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Memorial, a national monument honoring the hundreds of U.S. soldiers and Cheyenne and Lakota Indians who died in 1876 fighting over this now largely forgotten land.

TPMMuckraker investigates the sad story of Hardin, Mont., a town so desperate for jobs it fell for a private prison scheme that left it with a big empty jail and a load of debt.

October 12, 2009 With the unraveling of the deal for the shadowy American Private Police Force to take over and populate an empty jail in Hardin, Montana, it's pretty clear that the small city got played by an ex-con and his private security firm.

Xe, the company formerly known as Blackwater, says there is no connection between it and American Private Police Force , the secretive company that took over that jail in Hardin, MT.

Efforts to disband a law enforcement contract between the city of Hardin and the Big Horn County Sheriff's Department are still on track.

A former Secret Service agent named as the would-be operator of a Montana jail and law enforcement training center served 14 months in prison for stealing money from the government.Michael Cohen was a supervisor with the Secret Service before his 2004 conviction on charges of stealing $2,800 from the agency.

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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 From http://www.prisonplanet.com/apf-plan-to-boss-hardin-detention-facility-put-on-hold.html APF Plan To Boss Hardin Detention Facility Put On Hold Officials back away from deal following revelations of Hiltona s criminal history Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, October 6, 2009 The end looks to be drawing near ...

Plans for a California company to take over this city's empty jail were put on hold Monday, following last week's revelations that the company's lead figure has a criminal history.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. Associated Press Writwer BILLINGS, Mont. A California judge has ordered American Police Force figure Michael Hilton a felon with a history of fraud seeking to operate an empty Montana jail to appear in court on Oct.

The latest on what's happening in Hardin, Montana: State Attorney General Steve Bullock has launched a probe into the jail deal with American Police Force and its shady founder: Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock launched an investigation Thursday into American Police Force, the California company founded by a Serbian immigrant with a lengthy ...