Garland, tribal officials discuss crime, drugs and missing people in Indian Country
United States Attorney General Merrick Garland stands with marchers before they walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
On the day that the U.S. Departments of Justice and Interior released their response to violence and missing persons in Indian Country, the Attorney General of the United States visited the Crow reservation and met with law enforcement officials in Billings to announce more resources for tribal justice as well as to talk about drug trafficking.
Merrick B. Garland, U.S. Attorney General, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana Jesse Laslovich made brief remarks at the opening of a law enforcement roundtable meant to better coordinate law enforcement response to crime on the state’s reservations.
Garland spent much of the day in southcentral Montana talking with Crow tribal leaders and law enforcement. He also announced additional staffing being added to help prosecute crimes on tribal reservations, and spoke about the scourge of drug trafficking there.
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