Fire Chief Charged With Felony Theft
Wolf Point Fire Chief Clint Bushman has been charged with felony theft in the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Tribal Court.
During the February city council meeting, Wolf Point Mayor Chris Dschaak informed council members that Bushman had been placed on administrative leave.
According to court documents, Dschaak informed a Roosevelt County Sheriff’s deputy in December 2025 that he recently discovered a large amount of money inexplicably missing from a bank account belonging to the Volunteer Ball Association. That bank account is a fund that is separate from the Wolf Point and Roosevelt County fire departments’ budgets.
“Neither the city of Wolf Point or Roosevelt County has anything to do specifically with the Volunteer Ball Association,” Dschaak said.
The mayor explains that the ball association has been in existence for more than 20 years and is a non-profit organization. Its goal is to benefit the Wolf Point and Roosevelt County fire departments to offset budget shortfalls pertaining to larger purchases. Examples include the purchasing of trucks, personal protection equipment or potentially proving matching funds for grants.
Dschaak is a former secretary/ treasurer and captain with the fire department. After Dschaak stepped down from a leadership position in 2019, the defendant was elected as fire chief and took over the Firemen’s Ball Association bank account.
On Dec. 2, 2025, Dschaak was alerted to the fact that he’s still on the account when a local bank updated its phone app, and Dschaak received a notification by phone.
When Dschaak reviewed the account, he saw that there was approximately $120,000 worth of suspicious transactions on the account including $40,000 in cash withdrawals and $20,000 in purchases from Amazon.
When Dschaak researched the matter, he found none of the suspicious purchases were approved by the association members. Dschaak and three other retired firefighters agreed to provide the information to the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The information was later shared with the Fort Peck Tribes Department of Law and Justice.
Bushman had solo access to the account’s debit card and many of the purchases appear to be connected to him, according to court documents.
The defendant recently traveled to Las Vegas, Nev., and the account shows a purchase made at a Cinnabons store in Las Vegas during the time that he was there, states the court documents.
Dschaak also informed a county deputy that there were several purchases made at a Wolf Point store that were apparently unrelated to the fire department. A security camera at the store showed that the defendant made the purchases using the debit card.
Bank statements showed that there was little activity in the bank account when Dschaak was chief compared to when Bushman took over.
In tribal court, felony theft has a maximum penalty of one year imprisonment, a fine of $5,000 or both.
