Crazyboy gets suspended sentence on car dragging

A Havre women who pleaded guilty to dragging a relative with a car, nearly running over her, after stealing the victim’s purse will spend most of three years on probation for her actions.

Leslie A. Crazyboy, born in 1979, pleaded guilty in April to a felony count of criminal endangerment.

Monday, state District Judge Dan Boucher followed the recommendation in the plea agreement Crazyboy signed and sentenced her to three years, all suspended, with credit for 131 days served. He ordered Crazyboy to pay $200 as a cost of assigned counsel and to pay $80 in fees and a surcharge.

Gloria Crazyboy, born in 1976, is scheduled to go on trial June 10 on charges of criminal endangerment, a felony, and assault, a misdemeanor, stemming from the incident.

The two were charged after a woman called the Hill County Sheriff’s Office April 27 to report she had been dragged by a vehicle.

The deputy who arrived found the caller dusty and checking scrapes near one of her elbows and the woman also had a scrape on her right shoulder, both of which appeared to be road rash. The woman’s small child and another adult also were at the scene.

The woman said she was in the area from out of state visiting relatives. She said she was visiting Leslie Crazyboy, a relative of hers, and Crazyboy asked her to follow her to a North Havre tavern. While there, she said, Crazyboy told her to give her some money. When the victim said no, Crazyboy then grabbed her by the hair and struck her several times while the victim sat in her own vehicle.

The woman said she and her passengers were able to get away, but Crazyboy pursued her in her own vehicle.

Once they stopped their car, the woman said, Crazyboy got out of her vehicle, reached inside the victim’s vehicle and grabbed her bag, which the woman said had very little cash in it.

When the woman followed Crazyboy back to her vehicle and tried to get her bag back, Crazyboy tried to assault her again. Leslie Crazyboy then threw the bag in the back seat, next to Gloria Crazyboy.

When the woman again tried to grab her bag, Gloria Crazyboy grabbed her arm and Leslie Crazyboy started driving the vehicle forward, then started backing up, the documents say.

The woman told the deputy Gloria Crazyboy was dragging her alongside the vehicle, and she thought she was going to be run over and had to push herself off a tire of the vehicle using her foot.

While this was going on, one of the people with her reached into Crazyboy’s vehicle and retrieved her bag, the woman said.