CHALLIS — A man accused of causing a police standoff with the Custer County sheriff was exonerated by a jury in April. Now, he’s telling his story to the public.

In September 2024, Curtis Caton, 49, was arrested and then held in jail for nearly a year on a $1 million bond for multiple charges, including felony unlawful discharge of a firearm, felony assault with the intent to commit murder, felony malicious injury to property and misdemeanor resisting or obstructing officers.

Caton ended up pleading guilty to the misdemeanor, but after a four-day trial where his lawyers claimed that he was ambushed by a group of teenagers and their parents, the jury found him not guilty on the other charges.

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