Erickson ordered to pay $325K restitution

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown

Kenneth Erickson of Havre listens to testimony Wednesday during his sentencing hearing in state District Court in Havre. Judge Dan Boucher deferred imposition of sentence for six years and ordered Erickson to pay nearly $325,000 in restitution for striking Gene Johnson of Big Sandy April 23, 2011, which caused serious ongoing damage when Johnson struck his head on the pavement.

A Havre man was sentenced to six years under supervision of the state and ordered to pay almost $325,000 in restitution for a 2011 punch in the parking lot of a Havre bar that put the vict...