Today’s trifecta of embarrassment for badges spans three counties, beginning with a wrong-way driver on I-90 that MISSOULA authorities had to deal with because no one was available from Mineral County.
On July 9, 2026, shortly before 3:30 AM, Mineral County 911 received multiple calls regarding a wrong-way driver traveling on Interstate 90. The calls indicated that the suspect vehicle was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-90. The Mineral County Sheriff’s Office did not have any deputies available, so the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office provided aid. The driver, later identified as 60-year-old Dirk Hinkle, was ultimately stopped within the boundary of Missoula County after his vehicle was pinned by deputies.
How often does the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office “not have any deputies available” for interstate highway emergencies? July is Montana’s primetime month for summer travel , when traffic on highways around the state get busier and more dangerous, so it’s kind of worrying that no one from Mineral County could respond to 60 year-old Dirk Hinkle, who had to be “pinned” by Missoula County deputies to stop him.
Moving on to Sanders County, a young woman with an accent became the center of a Facebook controversy after the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office attempted to educate their community about this woman’s presence, including making note of her accent. I guess this caused people to flip out.
On July 6, the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office in western Montana put up a rather odd post on Facebook.
It was a picture of a deputy standing with a smiling woman outside the sheriff’s office.
“Good afternoon, Sanders County residents,” the post read. “We have met and spoken with Sinija Loze. She works with Families for Education. She is a college student from Latvia doing her summer job selling educational products by Southwestern Advantage. We have verified her information, she does have a accent but is a very nice lady. Her vehicle is a Grey jeep. No need to be alarmed if you see her.”
The post got hundreds of reactions on Facebook, and many commenters were either confused or angry.
The cute young girl the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office was, I’m sure, eager to help out, actually provided the “script” for what to post about her, including the bit about her accent, and Sanders County obliged. Unfortunately, here’s how some people in Sanders County responded:
“I’m genuinely confused about the purpose of this post?” one of the top comments read. “Are people in Montana ‘alarmed’ by someone with an ‘accent’? Literally everybody has an accent.”
Someone else wondered if it was the “accent” part or the “selling educational products” that had everyone “on edge.”
Many comments were either xenophobic or assailing the sheriff’s office for implying that people with accents were to be feared unless told otherwise.
Moving on to Missoula, this KGVO article got my attention for a number of reasons, like the fact a “known drug house” exists in Missoula.
On July 12, 2026, at approximately 8:21 p.m., a Missoula Police Department Officer was on routine patrol when he observed a red Kia Sorento come to a stop directly in front of his vehicle at a known drug house. The officer determined that the registered owner of the vehicle, 42-year-old Melissa Brooks, had a suspended driver’s license.
Brooks exited her vehicle, at which time the officer activated his emergency lights. Brooks then walked to the front of the officer’s patrol vehicle. While communicating with Brooks, dispatch advised the officer that Brooks was on probation. The officer then contacted and advised Adult Probation and Patrol of the circumstances. Probation requested that a search of Brooks, her purse, and her vehicle be conducted.
Upon completing the search, the officer discovered drug paraphernalia, including multiple new hypodermic syringes, pre-cut folded pieces of tin foil, latex tourniquets, alcohol prep pads, pipes consistent with smoking controlled substances, butane fuel, single-use saline containers, and a multitude of small clear plastic baggies consistent with selling and buying small quantities of narcotics.
Do the cops know Melissa Brooks? Yes, they most certainly do, because Melissa Brooks once worked at Open Aid Alliance and was a panelist, along with a cop and another person back on drugs, April Seat, during an official city update of the 10 Year Plan To End Homelessness (emphasis mine):
When this article about Melissa Brooks being arrested near a “known drug house” first hit Facebook, people seemed confused about how a “known drug house” could exist. If the cops “know” about it, doesn’t logic lead one to assume they would be able to do something about it?
For being in possession of dangerous drugs (with intent to sell?), Melissa Brooks spent just one more day in jail than I did when I was arrested on June 19th in the parking lot of the Great Burn Brewery on a warrant alleging I was in technical violation of a restraining order on June 15th.
Before this 2026 arrest, Melissa Brooks was arrested in 2024 and had drugs stashed in her lady parts, including Fentanyl, the infamous drug killing thousands and thousands of addicts across the country.
Brooks was placed under arrest and taken to the Missoula County Detention Center. While the officer was filling out paperwork, court documents indicate he was informed by the jail that they had located drugs hidden in Brooks’ vaginal area and under her bra. The officer observed two clear baggies. One contained 12 fentanyl pills and the other contained a crystal-like substance that appeared to be methamphetamine but tested inconclusive.
The officer applied for and was granted a search warrant for Brooks’ car. Officers found a loaded hypodermic needle of meth, butane torches, a glass pipe, tooter straws, two pieces of burnt tinfoil, butane fluid, two containers filled with liquid methadone, and a black digital scale.
If I had to speculate about Melissa Brooks I’d say there’s a good chance she’s dealing drugs, and she could be one of the protected dealers doing it for the cops, like I suspect John Skinner had been doing, as an informant, for many years, which I wrote about in this post.
Since I know it’s hard to believe this kind of corruption could be happening in a nice liberal mountain town, like Missoula, here’s a 20 second clip from the latest episode of Sugar, a noir tv show about a PI who finds missing persons:
Here’s the dialogue written out for you non-viewers of video:
Tom Flyberg: “Fucking embarrassment, you know most Sheriffs are cool, good guys, good police, but there’s always been this group of ‘em, banger’s with badges.
John Sugar: “Starts in the jails, huh? Alameda Sheriff’s Department runs it?”
Tom Flyberg: “Uh-huh, it’s where they make the connections.”
Yep, this tracks, which reminds me…didn’t Missoula’s Sheriff, Jeremiah Petersen, run the jail before running unopposed to become TOP LAW DOG of Missoula County?
Yes he did.
If you appreciate this kind of context, which I guarantee you won’t find anywhere else, please consider donating to my new GoFundMe page. Any little bit helps as I try to get through another week of active lawfare preventing me from doing what I would normally do, like attend Brandon Bryant’s trial today for an alleged scenario involving a restraining order that sounds suspiciously like the lawfare targeting me.
And no, I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
Thanks for reading!