Glendive Chief of Police facing three felonies for illegal deer hunting, tampering with witnesses

Jeremy L. Swisher, the Glendive chief of police, is facing three felony charges for hunting on Montana tribal lands without a license and tampering with witnesses, after the Montana Attorney General’s Office say he made up a story about hunting, then changed it, urging other law enforcement officers to lie to investigators.

The case stems from before Swisher arrived in Glendive as police chief. Previously, he was a law enforcement agent in Louisiana who said he was interested in the job because of the hunting and fishing he’d done here. But a search of state databases shows he had not obtained any licenses, according to court documents filed in Dawson County Court.

Requests for comment from Swisher from the Daily Montanan went unanswered.