From the Courts - District Court: Dion to be resentenced on assault charge

One day after she sentenced Erica Ann Dion to six years with the state Department of Corrections for assault with a weapon, state District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz ordered a new sentencing for Dion, scheduled for next Wednesday.

Dion pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to threatening a woman with a realistic-looking BB gun after the woman refused, at the direction of her landlord, to let Dion into her residence, which belonged to Dion’s father.

Snipes Ruiz sentenced Dion in state District Court in Havre Monday to the six years with none suspended, recommending she be screened and placed in a dr...