Rocky Boy police investigating torched pickup

A pickup truck burned entirely Thursday on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and tribal police are digging into the cause and looking for possible suspects.

A woman reported early Thursday around 3 a.m. that a pickup was on fire on Laredo Road, tribal Police Chief Larry Bernard said this morning. By the time the Rocky Boy volunteer fire department arrived on the scene, the vehicle was completely engulfed, Bernard added.

The woman first called the Havre Police Department, Bernard said, before being transferred to tribal police.

Criminal investigator Ed Longknife is investigating the cause and looking for possible suspects. Tribal police do not have any suspects and the cause of the fire is undetermined.

No one was injured and an estimated damage of the large pickup, Bernard said, may be around $15,000.