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From the Courts - District Court: Dion to be resentenced on assault charge
One day after she sentenced Erica Ann Dion to six years with the state Department of Corrections for assault with a weapon, state District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz ordered a new sentencing for Dion, scheduled for next Wednesday. Dion pleaded guilty...
From the Courts - District Court: Dion sentenced to six years in assault charge
A Havre woman was sentenced to six years with the state Department of Correction after she previously pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon. Erica Ann Dion was sentenced Monday by state District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz, credited with 89 days...
From the Courts - District Court: Converse given six months probation on reduced drug charge
A local woman was sentenced to six months in jail, all suspended, on a reduced drug charge stemming from a law enforcement search of a residence where she was present. Christina Mary Converse originally was charged with a felony count of criminal...
From the Courts - Federal District Court: Lodge Pole man sentenced for assaulting girlfriend
From the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana A Lodge Pole man convicted at trial for assaulting his girlfriend on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today in federal District Court in Great Falls to 21 months in prison...
From the Courts: More sex charges filed against former Stone Child basketball coach
From the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A former assistant basketball coach at Stone Child College on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation was arraigned Monday on an indictment accusing him of crimes involving...
From the Courts: Jury convicts Fort Belknap man of strangling woman
From U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A jury Friday convicted a Fort Belknap man accused of assaulting and strangling a woman in Lodge Pole on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation last year, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. The jury...
From the Courts: Havre man sentenced for domestic assault on Fort Belknap Reservation
From the Office of The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A Havre man convicted of domestic assault after breaking his girlfriend’s nose during an argument on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 54 months...
From the Courts: Harlem man sentenced to prison for domestic abuse
From the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A Harlem man was sentenced to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Oct. 10 for conviction on domestic abuse charges, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme...
From the Courts - State District Court: Man sentenced to probation for crashing while driving after huffing
Jordan Cole Hofland was sentenced to three years probation after he pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to crashing a vehicle after huffing Dust-Off. Hofland was charged with felony counts criminal endangerment and criminal mischief and a misdemeanor...
From the Courts - State District Court: Man sentenced on assault and for jumping bail on charge
Jaret J. Blackcrow was sentenced to three years on one charge and given a suspended sentence for jumping bail on that charge. Blackcrow was charged with a felony count of assault with a weapon and a misdemeanor charge of partner or family member...
From the Courts - State District Court: Man sentenced to probation, restitution in bad check case
Tevin James Barron was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay more than $3,000 in restitution after he pleaded guilty to writing a string of checks on a closed account. Barron was charged Oct. 30, 2018, with a felony count of issuing...
From the Courts - State District Court: Man sentenced on lesser charge in assault case
Tanner Joseph Walker was sentenced to six months probation after pleading guilty in a plea agreement that included dismissing a felony charge. Walker was charged May 14, 2018, with a felony count of aggravated burglary and a misdemeanor count of...
From the Courts - Woman sentenced to probation on drug charge
Jamie Dawn The Boy was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to four years probation on a charge alleging she was selling drugs. She pleaded guilty to the felony charge criminal distribution of dangerous drugs in a plea agreement March 27....
From the Courts - Man resentenced to two years on 2014 assault charge
Stephen J. Favel was resentenced in court in Havre to two years for violating conditions of his release to run at the same time as a sentence from court in Cascade County. Favel was charged in 2014 after a woman said they got into an argument and she...
From the Courts - Man given suspended sentence on bail jumping charge
Reuben Jesse Gillian was sentenced to five years probation on a charge of bail jumping. Gillian was sentenced in October 2018 to a five-year sentence, all suspended, after he pleaded guilty to a charge of strangulation of a family member. He was...
From the Courts - Pair sentenced on drug charges, man on probation violation
A man and a woman who both pleaded guilty to charges they were found with drugs in a Havre hotel in December have been sentenced in Havre District Court in separate cases. Hayley Kelm and Tyrell Nault both were charged after a hotel called law...
From the Courts: Woman sentenced to probation on reduced charge from crash
Birgin Lane Billy was sentenced to one year of probation on a reduced charge stemming from allegations she was driving at speeds up to 80 mph and crashed into a tree. Billy pleaded guilty in state District Court in Havre May 6 to a misdemeanor...
From the Courts: Woman sentenced to probation on drug charge
Lachelle Wadelle Doney received three years probation on a drug charge for methamphetamine being found on her while being booked on another charge. Court documents say law enforcement officers arrested Doney on a trespassing charge Nov. 13, 2018....
From the Courts: The Boy sentenced to 10 years, five suspended, on drug charge
Aliesha M. The Boy was sentenced in state district court in Havre to five years followed by five on probation on a drug charge, to run at the same time as a sentence of five years with two suspended imposed in 2017 in another case. The Boy was...
From the Courts - Woman sentenced to five years plus probation on drug charges
Lynn R. Werk was sentenced to five years plus five years probation after she pleaded guilty to drug charges. Werk pleaded guilty Feb. 28, 2019, to a felony count of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs alleging she gave away methamphetamine Nov....
From the Courts - Woman sentenced to probation on drug charge
Danielle Christine Wilson was sentenced to two years probation after pleading guilty to being found with drugs during a traffic stop. She was charged with a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs after a police officer found .01...
From the Courts - Man given probation on child endangerment charge
Jonah Colby Walker was given three years probation after he pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle with a 12-year-old inside after drinking. Walker was charged Oct. 31 2017, after a law enforcement officer pulled over at 5:25 p.m. the yellow Volkswagon...
From the Courts: Local man charged with rape
A local man has been charged with raping a teenage girl who said she had gone out on her first-ever night of drinking. JayR Caplette was charged June 11 with a felony count of sexual intercourse without consent. An arraignment, in which the...
From the Courts: Father charged with tampering in daughter's assault with weapon case
A daughter and her father are both facing charges in state District Court In Havre on separate but related charges to accusations she threatened a woman with a BB gun. Erica Ann Dion pleaded not guilty in the court in Havre Monday to a felony count...
By Woman sentenced on charges reduced from attempted deliberate homicide
A Havre woman was sentenced this week in District Court in Havre to seven-and-a-half years plus 10 years probation after pleading guilty to charges reduced from counts including attempted deliberate homicide. Brooke Ann Black Tongue, born in 1988,...
