Thompson St. Pierre sentenced to 10 years in Montana State Prison

A local man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges stemming from a police standoff in the Bear Paw Mountains that led to an armored vehicle being brought in from Great Falls to end the standoff.

Thompson St. Pierre was sentenced in Havre Wednesday by state District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz to 10 years in Montana State Prison, with no time suspended for assault with a weapon.

Snipes Ruiz designated St. Pierre as a persistent felony offender, and sentenced him to six months in the Hill County Detention Center for resisting arrest, which would have run concurrent to the assault with a wea...