Man gets 5 years for raping sleeping woman

A Plentywood man who raped a woman while she was asleep when he was visiting her in Havre in 2013 received five years with the Department of Corrections Monday afternoon in District Court.

Kevin J. Kavon, born in 1979, received 10 years with five suspended with the Department of Corrections for the offense of sexual intercourse without consent.

Kavon was charged after emergency room personnel from Northern Montana Hospital contacted law enforcement Nov. 16, 2013, to report a possible rape.

The woman who said she had been raped told officers Kavon had come from Plentywood to visit her in...