Helena-area felony arrests reported Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020

A 30-year-old Helena woman was arrested for allegedly stealing a vehicle and a firearm.

Leslie Dillon is facing one felony count of theft and one misdemeanor count of driving a motor vehicle while her license was suspended or revoked.

Lewis and Clark County sheriff's deputies responded to the 5800 block of N. Montana Avenue on Oct. 4 for a report of a stolen vehicle and firearm. The value of the stolen items totaled approximately $2,100.

Deputies returned to the residence Oct. 26, after the victim reported the vehicle was back in his driveway. The firearm originally kept in the glove box was not there.

Deputies noticed the odometer had recorded about 1,200 additional miles and discovered a receipt from a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, business with a female's name on it.

Surveillance footage retrieved from the business showed Dillon arrive and depart in the stolen vehicle.

Dillon was arrested on a later date for an unrelated warrant and booked into Lewis and Clark County Detention Center. When deputies questioned Dillon, she admitted to stealing the vehicle and driving it to Seattle.

It is unclear what became of the stolen firearm.

All charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

A 33-year-old Helena woman was arrested Monday for possession of methamphetamine.

Helena police responded to a call of a suicidal woman on the 500 block of Last Chance Gulch just before 6 p.m.

An officer confronted the woman, Angela Bacon. While speaking with Bacon, the officer asked her to remove her hands from her pocket.

"When she refused, I pulled her hand out of her pocket," the arresting officer reported in his affidavit.

Bacon was holding a lighter and a syringe full of a clear liquid later determined to be methamphetamine.

She claimed to not know what was in the syringe or how it got in her pocket.

Detention officers searched Bacon upon her arrival and found three more syringes, one of which contained more meth.

Bacon was arrested and booked into Lewis and Clark County Detention Center.

All charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

A 40-year-old Helena woman was arrested Jan. 10 for allegedly possessing methamphetamine, heroin and Alprazolam.

Lisa McLeod is facing two felony counts of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and one felony count of possession of dangerous drugs with intent to distribute.

Parole officers and a detective with the Missouri River Drug Task Force conducted a search of McLeod's residence on the 800 block of E. Main Street in East Helena. The law enforcement agents discovered a black container holding a small bag with methamphetamine, multiple plastic bags containing "a brown tar like substance consistent with heroin," and three loose, oblong blue pills.

Field tests confirmed the substances found were meth, heroin and Alprazolam, a schedule IV drug used to treat anxiety disorders. According to the arresting officer's affidavit, no prescription bottle was located.

The black container also held a scale and unused plastic bags.

McLeod later told the officer she was selling the heroin and using the money to buy methamphetamine for her personal use.

McLeod was arrested and booked into Lewis and Clark County Detention Center.

All charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

A 25-year-old Helena man was arrested Jan. 9 after a probation officer discovered methamphetamine in his vehicle.

The probation officer found a "white paper bindle containing a white crystalline substance" along with a "hollowed out straw with a white residue" in the vehicle of Jason Rice, according to the arresting officer's report.

A field test of the substances returned a presumptive positive for methamphetamine.

Rice was arrested and booked into Lewis and Clark County Detention Center.

All charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

A 20-year-old Helena woman is alleged to have physically assaulted a Lewis and Clark County Detention Center officer Jan. 9.

Samantha Bowling is currently being detained at the facility on charges of strangulation of a partner or family member. She now faces an additional felony charge of assault on a peace officer after the Jan. 9 incident.

According to the arresting deputy's report, surveillance footage showed Bowling refused to return to her holding cell, pushing the detention officer into the hallway.

She then threw the officer to the ground and began "closed fist punching (the officer) multiple times," the report reads.

The detention officer was admitted to urgent care with a bruised left hand and "multiple bumps" on the right side of the head.

All charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty.