article_snippet.sent: The defendants came to the region looking for work in the booming Bakken oil patch.
article_snippet.sent: For Sidney residents, Sherry Arnold's death offered a horrifying illustration of the social upheaval caused by an energy boom that has turned the once-sleepy town into an oil patch hub.
article_snippet.sent: Crime has spiked in the Bakken region of Montana and North Dakota over the past several years as traffickers of methamphetamine and other drugs seek to profit off oil workers flush with cash, according to law enforcement officials.