High-speed pursuit ends with five-year sentence

A persistent felony offender who led police on a high-speed chase through Havre and then fled - and who was wanted for crashing a stolen vehicle a month earlier - was sentenced to five years to the Department of Corrections Monday in District Court.

Samuel Lynn Latray, born in 1982, was sentenced as a persistent felony offender to five years for felony criminal endangerment, five years for obstructing justice, a felony, and to six months in the county jail for fleeing from or eluding a peace officer and improper registration or display of license plates.

The sentences are to run at the sa...