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Isaac Scott Wardell was sentenced to time served and probation in state District Court in Havre, Monday, for a felony count of aggravated assault in a case that originally included incest, sexual intercourse without consent and sexual abuse of children charges. Wardell pleaded guilty to the reduced charge in plea agreement. District Judge Yvonne Laird sentenced Wardell to 10 years with the state Department of Corrections, all suspended, and credited him with 757 days served. She also ordered him to pay a $2,500 fine and...
Press release GREAT FALLS— A Fort Belknap man convicted of assaulting and strangling a woman in Lodge Pole, on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, last year was sentenced in Federal District Court Wednesday to 28 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. After a two day trial in January, a jury found Jordan Alexander Werk, 32, guilty of assault by striking, beating or wounding and of strangulation. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. The prosecution presented e...
Editor’s note: This version reports the first name of the defendant. A local woman was given in state District Court in Havre six months probation after she pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to reduced charges stemming from a stolen vehicle. Cali Brien was charged with a felony count of theft when she was found in the trunk of a stolen vehicle that had been spray-painted and had her license plates from another car. Brien said she was in the car in connection with Jaylen Jake Crazyboy, who is facing sentencing after p...
Kodi Cheyenne Barnes was sentenced in state District Court in Havre on a misdemeanor with another misdemeanor and two felonies dismissed in a plea agreement. Barnes was charged with two felony counts of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and misdemeanor counts of making false reports to law enforcement and criminal trespass to property after on Sept. 11, 2019, she told law enforcement a former boyfriend had beaten her up. Witnesses told investigating officers the event she was claiming occurred didn’t happen. U...
A local man was given in state District Court in Havre three years probation and a chance to have a felony charge struck from his record and ordered to pay restitution after he previously pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to two of several charges. Treyton Reed Sutherland was charged April 18, 2019, after fleeing from law enforcement officers after a store in Box Elder reported he had stolen a package of Twisted Tea, ending up crashing his vehicle in a field. He was charged with felony counts of criminal mischief and theft...
The trial of a former Hill County attorney accused of shooting her estranged husband in Abilene, Texas, has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson, who was appointed Hill County attorney in November 2018 and resigned in July 2018, was scheduled to go on trial in Taylor County District Court in Abilene today. A court representative said trials have been postponed due to restrictions put in place to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and when the trials will resume is not known. Cole-Hodgkinson was...
A man was resentenced to his previous suspended sentence with recommendations he be screened by the state parole board and placed in treatment. Donald J. HasEagle appeared in state District Couri in Havre Wednesday for disposition of a petition to revoke his suspended sentence in a 2013 aggravated assault charge stemming from allegations of a sex offense. HasEagle was sentenced by state District Judge Dan Boucher Nov. 24, 2014, to 17 years with 12 suspended and named a persistent felony offender. He had pleaded guilty in a...
A state district judge resentenced Erica Dion to six years with the last suspended a week-and-a-half after originally sentencing her to six years with none suspended for an assault with a weapon charge. Dion pleaded guilty in a plea agreement earlier this year after Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz declared a mistrial in trial last October on the charges when Dion did not show up on time one day during the trial. She was charged after a woman said Dion threatened her with a gun May 13, which turned out to be a realistic-looking BB...
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 in a plea agreement to threatening a woman with a realistic-looking BB gun after the woman refused, at the direction of her landlord, to let Dion into her residence, which belonged to Dion’s father. Snipes Ruiz sentenced Dion in state District Court in Havre Monday to the six y...
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 possession of dangerous drugs when a non-prescribed prescription pill was found on her. The prosecution later amended the charges to a misdemeanor count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and Converse pleaded guilty to that charge in a plea agreement. District Judge Kaydee...
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 served and ordered to pay $1,768.93 in jury costs and $592.29 in witness fees for a trial that Snipes Ruiz declared a mistrial in October when Dion did not appear for the ongoing trial. Snipes Ruiz waived other fees and surcharges. A court document said Dion was charged after a woman...
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 and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. A jury Nov. 6 found Jeremy Davis Wing, 40, guilty of domestic abuse by habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. During the three-day trial in November, the prosecution presented evidence t...
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 sexual exploitation of a child, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Christopher Brown of Box Elder, 31, pleaded not guilty to sexual exploitation of a child, transportation of child pornography and sexual abuse of a minor. If convicted of the most serious crime, Brown faces a mandatory min...
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 in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. James John Russell McConnell, 44, pleaded guilty in September to domestic assault by habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided and ordered the 54-month sentence be served con...
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 found Jordan Alexander Werk, 32, guilty of assault by striking, beating or wounding and of strangulation. The jury acquitted Werk of assault of a dating partner resulting in substantial bodily injury. Werk faces a maximum 10 years, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised relea...
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 said. Jerel Edgar Johnson, 35, of Harlem, pleaded guilty in June to domestic abuse by a habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. The prosecution said in court records that Johnson assaulted the victim twice in June 2018 near Snake Butte on the Fort Belknap I...
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 assault after a person reported he walked into a house and punched a person. He was scheduled to plead guilty in the plea agreement April 22, but District Judge John Parker said his statements implied his use of force was justified and did not accept the plea. Walker pleaded guilty...
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 bad checks by common scheme after multiple Havre businesses reported he had written checks on the account. The initial investigation said he had written at least 53 checks totaling $1,975.74. He pleaded guilty to the charge in a plea agreement April 29. District Judge Kaydee Snipes...
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 assault Dec. 23, 2015, after he was reported to have gotten into an argument and ended up pushing a television onto a man, injuring him. He pleaded guilty to the felony Feb. 11, 2016, but failed to show up for his sentencing hearing in April 2016. He was arrested on a charge of bail...
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 count of driving under the influence of drugs after people reported a blue Chevrolet pickup truck Oct. 24, 2017, crashed into a tree on the 500 Block of 14th Street, uprooting the tree, then crashed into a black pickup truck, pushing that truck into a residence and damaging the re...
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 ended up throwing a ceramic figurine at him, hitting him in the head. She said he then hit her, strangled her and broke the figurine over her head. Favel pleaded guilty to a felony charge of partner or family member assault in October 2014 in a plea agreement. He was sentenced No...
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. Judge David Cybulski sentenced The Boy May 21 to four years with the state Department of Corrections, all suspended, and ordered her to pay fees and surcharges. Cybulski ordered that The Boy would be allowed to enter bars and casinos for dining and employment. The Boy was charged...
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 enforcement to say people who had paid for a room with a credit card that was declined refused to leave. Law enforcement searched the room rented by Kelm and Nault, who was on probation from sentences of previous offenses, and found 11.7 grams of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and...
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 charged with bail jumping in October 2018 for failing to appear at his originally scheduled sentencing hearing in June of 2018. Gillian pleaded guilty to the bail jumping charge March 18 in a plea agreement. District Judge Yvonne Laird sentenced Gillian May 13 in state District court...
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 charge of negligent endangerment, reduced from a felony charge of criminal endangerment, and a misdemeanor charge of failure to give notice of an accident. District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz imposed a one-year deferred imposition of sentence on the endangerment charge and fined Billy...
