Trooper's family accuses of county commissioner of improper actions
County Commissioner Josh Letcher (D-3) at a health board meeting in 2021. (File photo)
The family of a Montana Highway Patrol trooper who was seriously injured in a high-speed chase last year is asserting that a Lincoln County commissioner attempted to use his position to seek leniency for the man convicted of attempted deliberate homicide in the incident.
Tpr. Lewis Johnson was struck by a pickup truck driven by 42-year-old Jason Allen Miller on Feb. 16, 2023, on a forest road in north Lincoln County near Koocanusa Dam. He suffered life-threatening injuries.
Miller was found guilty of the offense and other crimes in a jury trial on April 19, 2024. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 5 and remains in the Lincoln County Detention Center on a $1.5 million bond.
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