Box Elder woman admits stabbing man

From the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Distritc of Montana

GREAT FALLS — A Box Elder woman admitted Wednesday she stabbed a man in the hand and chest with a butterfly knife on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation last year, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.

Katie Lynn Big Bow, 44, pleaded guilty to assault of a dating partner. Big Bow faces a maximum five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release.

U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided and set sentencing for May 7. Big Bow was detained pending further proceedings.

The prosecution said in court records that th...