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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,...
From the Courts: Federal Distrct Court - Box Elder man sentenced in domestic assault
From U.S. Attorney for District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A judge on Wednesday sentenced a Box Elder man to eight months in prison and three years of supervised release in the assault of his domestic partner on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation,...
From the Courts: State District Court - Peck sentenced to probation on drug charge
Natasha Lynn Peck was sentenced in state District Court to three years of probation on a drug charge. Peck was charged Oct. 24, 2018, with felony counts of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and endangering the welfare of a child when officers...
From the Courts: State District Court - Brix sentenced to two years on drug charge
Matthew J. Brix was sentenced to spend two years in custody after he pleaded guilty to selling methamphetamine. Brix was charged Sept. 26, 2018, with a felony count of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs after the Tri-Agency Task Force...
From the Courts: State District Court - Woundedface again resentenced on probation violations
Chad. J. Woundedface was sentenced to serve out the remaining portion of a sentence that had been suspended for drug charges in a 2014 case. He was charged Sept. 25, 2014, with felony counts of distribution of morphine and distribution of imitation...
From the Courts: State District Court - Russette sentenced to probation on drug charge
Jacob Wayne Russette was sentenced to three years probation on a possession of methamphetamine charge. Russette was charged with a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and a misdemeanor count of theft after Hill County Sheriff’s d...
Havre woman jailed in vehicle-versus-pedestrian crash
A Havre woman was in jail this morning after she admitted to hitting a pedestrian with her Chevrolet Trail Blazer and fleeing the scene. Margaret Marie Bear, born in 1979, was in the Hill County Detention Center this morning being held on $50,000...
From the Courts: District Court - Young receives probation on drug charge
Lance J. Young was given three years of probation after pleading guilty to a charge alleging he possessed methamphetamine. Young was charged Aug. 3 with a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and a misdemeanor count of possession...
From the Courts: State District Court - Snow given probation on drug charges
Julia Larita-Jo Snow was sentenced to probation by a District Court judge in Havre after pleading guilty to drug charges. Snow, who was on probation, was charged Nov. 27 with felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs and a misdemeanor count of...
From the Courts: State District Court - Windy Boy sentenced to time served on sentence reduced from sexual abuse of a child
Emmett L. Windy Boy was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to time served after multiple charges of sexual abuse of a child were reduced to a misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child. Windy Boy was charged July 12, 2016, with...
From the Courts: State District Court - Stump sentenced to probation in chest-jumping assault
Elias J. Stump was sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty in a case in which he was accused of jumping up and down on a man’s chest. Stump was charged Aug. 13 after he was accused of assaulting a man who was watching trains go by...
From the Courts: U.S. District Court - Harlem man sentenced for domestic abuse
From the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — Tristen Jace Gone of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, who admitted hitting his domestic partner, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison and two years...
Federal District Court - Hays woman gets 22 years for sexually abusing child
PRESS RELEASE GREAT FALLS — Geneva Nadeau of Hays, convicted of sexually abusing and photographing a child, was sentenced Wednesday to 22 years in federal prison and to 15 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Nadeau, 38,...
From the Courts: Federal District Court - Box Elder man admits domestic assault
Press release GREAT FALLS — Box Elder resident Larry Ray Denny Jr., admitted a domestic assault charge Tuesday in federal court, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today. Denny, 46, pleaded guilty to domestic assault by a habitual offender. Denny faces...
From the Courts: Federal District Court - Havre woman sentenced for trafficking Oxycodone
Press release GREAT FALLS — Havre resident Charly McLain Rosette was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison and three years of supervised for conspiring to distribute prescription pain pills on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney...
From the Courts: State District Court - Man ordered to forfeit property, given probation on drug charges
A man who led police on a high-speed chase in Havre in November 2017 was given probation in two separate cases and ordered property including two pistols and $1,695 cash. Tyrell Nault pleaded guilty in plea agreements Oct. 23 to felony charges of cri...
From the Courts: State District Court - Man sentenced to five years probation, and forfeits cash and vehicle on drug charges
A man was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to five years probation and was ordered to forfeit $535 and a 2008 Saab SUV after he previously pleaded guilty to reduced drug charges in a plea agreement. Aaron Michael Bishop pleaded guilty Oct....
