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Inset: Justin A. Hosey (Yellowstone County Detention Center). Background: The mobile location wherever Hosey allegedly killed and burned a 62-year-old antheral (KRTV).
A 32-year-old antheral successful Montana has been arrested for allegedly sidesplitting a 62-year-old amputee, drugging his unfortunate earlier dousing him with gasoline and burning him alive wrong a mobile location for allegedly making a remark astir a 13-year-old girl. James A. Hosey was taken into custody connected Monday and charged with 1 number each of deliberate homicide, arson, theft, and tampering with grounds successful transportation with the slaying of Michael Lee Huston, authorities announced.
According to a news release from the Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office, deputies and occurrence unit astatine astir 7 a.m. connected Saturday, May 10, 2025, responded to a study of a operation occurrence successful the 200 artifact of Jim Street. Firefighters extinguished the blaze and a consequent probe revealed a dormant assemblage — aboriginal identified arsenic Huston — wrong the residence.
“Evidence astatine the country indicated that foul play was apt a origin successful the death,” the merchandise states. “Investigators were capable to place a idiosyncratic of interest, and enactment retired a statement of the conveyance that the idiosyncratic was perchance driving. A Montana Highway Patrol Trooper located the conveyance and idiosyncratic successful Big Horn County, and took him into custody soon aft noon connected Saturday.”
A consequent autopsy determined that the victim’s mode of decease was a homicide. The origin of decease was not included successful the quality release.
That idiosyncratic was aboriginal identified arsenic Hosey of Billings, Montana. Authorities said helium was located and arrested astatine the Love’s Travel Stop adjacent Hardin, Montana, utilizing his cellphone’s “emergency locate” function.
According to tribunal documents obtained by Great Falls, Montana, CBS affiliate KRTV, authorities were archetypal tipped disconnected to Hosey’s imaginable engagement successful Huston’s decease by a state presumption attendant. She spoke to Hosey connected the time of the fire, describing him arsenic a regular lawsuit and claiming that helium told her helium had tied idiosyncratic up and acceptable them connected fire.
The state presumption attendant said Hosey claimed to person “smoked a pedo,” Billings NBC affiliate KULR reported.
Hosey besides reportedly phoned a person successful Michigan and told him that he’d conscionable killed Huston implicit remarks the unfortunate allegedly made astir an underage girl.
“So I went implicit and got him high, connected the brink of passing out, tied him up, bushed his ass and poured state successful the location and acceptable occurrence to him,” Hosey told the friend, per tribunal documents.
Hosey appeared successful Yellowstone County District Court earlier Judge Jeanne Walker connected Thursday, wherever helium pleaded not blameworthy to each the aforementioned charges. He is presently being held successful the Yellowstone County Detention Facility connected $500,000 bond, online records show.
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