Allen sentenced to eight years in assault case

A Havre man was sentenced to eight years in prison after previously entering a special plea on three charges in a case that had been sent back to Havre by the state Supreme Court.

Judge David M. Ortley in state District Court in Havre sentenced Brian H. Allen, who was born in 1972, to 30 years with all but eight suspended on each of two felony counts of assault with a weapon and a felony count of criminal endangerment. Ortley ordered the sentences to run at the same time with each other and with a federal sentence stemming from the same events.

After Allen was convicted of the three counts...