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, was charged May 14, 2018, with felony counts of attempted deliberate homicide, partner or family member assault by strangulation and assault with a weapon and misdemeanor counts of unlawful restraint and resisting arrest after a former girlfriend said Blacktongue had attacked her April 28, 2018.

April 23 of this year, the charges were amended to felo...