District Court, Oct. 19, 2016

Man sentenced for 5th DUI

A man was sentenced to five years to the Department of Corrections and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine Monday in District Court for a felony fifth offense of driving under the influence of intoxicants.

Brian K. Azure, born in 1970, was sentenced to a five year commitment to the DOC for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or Drugs, fourth or subsequent offense, and one year in the county jail with all but 14 days suspended for driving while a habitual traffic offender, a misdemeanor. The sentences are to be served at the same time.

The sentence was pursuant to a plea deal in which two other charges were dropped.

Azure was arrested July 19, 2015, after he was stopped for speeding and was found to be driving with a revoked driver’s license and under the influence of alcohol.

During the stop, Azure was having a hard time keeping his balance and had to be asked multiple times by an officer not to smoke.

Azure was asked to take a series of sobriety determining tests, which he mostly failed.

At the Hill County Detention Center — he was arrested for his fifth DUI — Azure refused to take a breath test and asked to speak to his attorney.

A warrant was granted and blood was taken from Azure.

Persistent felon gets 5 years prison time

A local woman received a five-year sentence to the Department of Corrections Monday in District Court for violating parole and also had a previously suspended sentence revoked.

Jaimie L. Windyboy, born in 1982, was sentenced to five years to the DOC, with credit for 99 days served, for the felony offense of criminal possession of dangerous drugs, as a persistent felony offender. The sentence was pursuant to a plea agreement.

The sentence is to run concurrently to any other sentence being served by Windyboy and District Court Judge Daniel Boucher recommended that Windyboy be placed in the Elkhorn Treatment Center in Boulder.

Windyboy will be serving that sentence alongside a revoked sentence for failing to register as a violent offender in 2013.

Boucher revoked Windyboy’s previously suspended sentence and committed her to the DOC for three years, with credit for 96 days served.

Windyboy was already on probation when drugs she didn’t have a prescription for — Alprazolam, Clonazepam and Ambien —  along with a snorting tube, were found at her home by officers June 13.

Windyboy was arrested Aug. 24, 2013, after it was discovered she had been staying at an address other than the one she had registered as a violent offender.

Woman

sentenced for ordering drugs through mail

A Havre woman received three years probation Monday in District Court for ordering meth and pills through the mail with the intention of selling them.

Jennadee Morsette, born in 1994, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for the offense of criminal possession with intent to distribute, a felony, and ordered to pay a $2,622 drug storage fine.

The sentence is pursuant to a plea deal that dropped an initial misdemeanor charge.

On June 26, 2105, a Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force agent received a call from a Havre apartment complex manager about a suspicious package that was delivered from Vallejo, California, to Morsette’s address.

The manager told officers he had received complaints from other tenants that there was traffic going in and out of the apartment all the time, day and night.

A judge issued a warrant to search the package and the agent found 29.1 grams of methamphetamine and 200 Hydrocodone pills in ot.

The manager and the supervisor at the Havre U.S. Post Office said Morsette had asked them numerous times if they knew about the package’s whereabouts.

After agents spoke to officials at the post office, a post office employee called Morsette and told her the package had arrived. Morsette came up to pick up the package at the post office, signing for the package under another name, the same name written on the package.

A judge issued a search warrant and agents then found baggies used to package illegal drugs and paraphernalia used to smoke marijuana in her apartment.