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Editor’s Note: This version corrects the name of the Havre City Judge that was misreported in the original version. The following cases were resolved by Havre City Judge Jane Hedstrom in May. —— Ruth Lydia Reyes, born in 1968, was sentenced to 180 days in jail, 178 days suspended and two credited, for assault, purposely or knowingly causing bodily injury, amended from assault with a weapon. —— Joshua Glen Reid, born in 1979, had a charge of failure to register as a sexual or violent offender dismissed by the prosecuti...
Bernard George Bell was sentenced in state District Court in Havre on a misdemeanor charge reduced in a plea agreement from a felony criminal child endangerment charge. Bell was charged Jan. 4 after an officer investigated a vehicle parked crooked in a parking space and found Bell, who appeared drunk, in the car with the child. In the plea agreement, the charge was reduced to driving under the influence, first offense. Bell pleaded guilty July 6 and state District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced him to one year in jail,...
Celestine Rose Plante was sentenced to time served in a plea agreement that dismissed a felony assault with a weapon. Plante was charged with the felony and a misdemeanor partner or family member assault charge after a person said Feb. 8 that the person woke to find Plante holding a small knife to their throat making threats. The two were struggling when officers arrived, with the knife laying not far away. Under a plea agreement, Plante pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge July 6 and state District Court Judge Kaydee...
Adrian Roastingstick was given four years probation after he pleaded guilty to a felony assault charge. Roastingstick was charged with felony accounts of partner or family member assault and driving under the influence and a misdemeanor count of obstructing a peace officer for giving a false name to officers when they pulled him over. He was accused of assaulting a person, sitting on them and throwing items at them before driving away. May 18, he pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to the partner or family member assault...
Zachary Dale Jones was sentenced in a plea agreement to three years probation on check forging charges, to run after sentences on two other check convictions and another case from Blaine County. Jones was charged Dec. 19 with felony forgery by common scheme after a man reported he had been writing checks off the man’s account. He pleaded guilty May 18 in a plea agreement and state District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced him in state District Court in Havre July 6 to three years with the state Department of Corrections, a...
Jaden James Black Tongue was given probation and ordered to pay a fine and perform community service under a plea agreement that amended charges stemming from a car chase through Havre After Black Tongue attempted to flee officers who tried to pull him over for speeding Dec. 22, he was charged with three counts of criminal endangerment, all felonies, first offense driving under the influence, operation of a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol content .02 or greater by a person younger than 21 and fleeing from or eluding a...
The following cases were resolved by Judge Audrey Barger in Hill County Justice Court in May. —— Janell Rene Leo, born in 1976, had a charge of truancy misdemeanor dismissed by the prosecution. —— Steven Lee Strike, born in 1988, was sentenced to 180 days in jail, 138 days credited and 42 suspended, for violation of a no contact order; was sentenced to 180 days in jail, all days suspended for another 47 counts of violation of a no contact order; and two more counts had no sentence listed. —— Zachariah Lee Ambler, born in 199...
Steven Lee Strike Sr. was convicted including for a felony assault charge after a one-day trial in state District Court in Havre. After deliberating for 2 hours and 32 minutes Thursdsay, a jury convicted Strike of a felony count of partner or family member assault, felony aggravated burglary and a misdemeanor count of violating a no contact order. Strike originally was charged with felony partner or family member assault — he had two prior convictions on the offense — and burglary after a woman, for whom a no contact ord...
Teresa Angel Jiron was sentenced to five years probation after she previously pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to driving while intoxicated with a baby in the car. District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced Jiron in state District Court in Havre, Monday on a felony charge of endangering the welfare of a child to five years with the state Department of Corrections, all suspended, and ordered her to pay $130 in fees and surcharges, graduate from the Hill County treatment court and enter an anger management program. Jiron...
Dion L. Longknife was sentenced to the remainder of his previous sentence, to Dec. 16, 2021, for violating conditions of his release on a previous sentence. Longknife admitted in December to violating conditions of his suspended sentence for failing to register as a violent offender. District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz revoked his suspended sentence Monday in state District Court in Havre and resentenced him for the remainder of his sentence to the state Department of Corrections, giving him no credit for street time or time...
Darrell David Gardipee III was given in state District Court in Havre, Monday, a 10-year sentence, five suspended, for violating conditions of his release in a three-year-old case involving a high-speed chase in Havre. State District Judge Jon Oldenburg imposed the sentence, crediting Gardipee with 171 days served and recommending he be screened and placed in a treatment program. Gardipee was charged on accusations he fled from police who tried to pull him over for having illegal LED lights and not having matching license...
Milton E. Garcia was sentenced to three years with credit for most of that already served for violating conditions of his suspended sentence on a driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced Garcia in state District Court in Havre, Thursday, to the three years with the state Department of Corrections and credited him with 866 days street time and 26 days served. Garcia pleaded guilty in a plea agreement in June 2016 to his fourth DUI, which is a felony, and to a misdemeanor charge of...
Amanda Nicole Buck was re-sentenced in state District Court in Havre, for violating conditions of her release in a six-year-old drug case. State District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced Buck Thursday to five years with the state Department of Corrections, crediting her with three years, two months street time and 79 days served, and recommended she be screened and placed in a treatment facility. Buck was charged after a local store reported having her in custody for shoplifting. Investigating officers found prescription...
Zane Jay Pasma was sentenced in state District Court in Havre, Thursday, to a misdemeanor assault charge reduced in a plea agreement from a felony count of assault on an officer. State District Judge Olivia Reiger sentenced Pasma to six months all suspended on each of a charge of assault and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors, credited him with four days served and ordered him to pay $190 in fees and surcharges. Pasma was originally charged with the felony and misdemeanor counts of obstructing a peace officer and criminal...
Editor's note: This version corrects the length of the sentence. aden Peet was sentenced in state District Court in Havre Monday to probation and ordered to register as a Tier 1 sex offender after previously pleading guilty to a reduced charge in a case in which he was accused of forcing an underaged girl to have sex with him. District Judge Yvonne Laird sentenced Peet on a count of sexual assault to 10 years with the state Department of Corrections, all suspended, ordered him to spend 180 days in the county jail and to pay...
Isaac Scott Wardell was sentenced to time served and probation in state District Court in Havre, Monday, for a felony count of aggravated assault in a case that originally included incest, sexual intercourse without consent and sexual abuse of children charges. Wardell pleaded guilty to the reduced charge in plea agreement. District Judge Yvonne Laird sentenced Wardell to 10 years with the state Department of Corrections, all suspended, and credited him with 757 days served. She also ordered him to pay a $2,500 fine and...
Press release GREAT FALLS— A Fort Belknap man convicted of assaulting and strangling a woman in Lodge Pole, on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, last year was sentenced in Federal District Court Wednesday to 28 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. After a two day trial in January, a jury found Jordan Alexander Werk, 32, guilty of assault by striking, beating or wounding and of strangulation. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. The prosecution presented e...
Editor’s note: This version reports the first name of the defendant. A local woman was given in state District Court in Havre six months probation after she pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to reduced charges stemming from a stolen vehicle. Cali Brien was charged with a felony count of theft when she was found in the trunk of a stolen vehicle that had been spray-painted and had her license plates from another car. Brien said she was in the car in connection with Jaylen Jake Crazyboy, who is facing sentencing after p...
Kodi Cheyenne Barnes was sentenced in state District Court in Havre on a misdemeanor with another misdemeanor and two felonies dismissed in a plea agreement. Barnes was charged with two felony counts of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and misdemeanor counts of making false reports to law enforcement and criminal trespass to property after on Sept. 11, 2019, she told law enforcement a former boyfriend had beaten her up. Witnesses told investigating officers the event she was claiming occurred didn’t happen. U...
A local man was given in state District Court in Havre three years probation and a chance to have a felony charge struck from his record and ordered to pay restitution after he previously pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to two of several charges. Treyton Reed Sutherland was charged April 18, 2019, after fleeing from law enforcement officers after a store in Box Elder reported he had stolen a package of Twisted Tea, ending up crashing his vehicle in a field. He was charged with felony counts of criminal mischief and theft...
The trial of a former Hill County attorney accused of shooting her estranged husband in Abilene, Texas, has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson, who was appointed Hill County attorney in November 2018 and resigned in July 2018, was scheduled to go on trial in Taylor County District Court in Abilene today. A court representative said trials have been postponed due to restrictions put in place to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and when the trials will resume is not known. Cole-Hodgkinson was...
A man was resentenced to his previous suspended sentence with recommendations he be screened by the state parole board and placed in treatment. Donald J. HasEagle appeared in state District Couri in Havre Wednesday for disposition of a petition to revoke his suspended sentence in a 2013 aggravated assault charge stemming from allegations of a sex offense. HasEagle was sentenced by state District Judge Dan Boucher Nov. 24, 2014, to 17 years with 12 suspended and named a persistent felony offender. He had pleaded guilty in a...
A state district judge resentenced Erica Dion to six years with the last suspended a week-and-a-half after originally sentencing her to six years with none suspended for an assault with a weapon charge. Dion pleaded guilty in a plea agreement earlier this year after Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz declared a mistrial in trial last October on the charges when Dion did not show up on time one day during the trial. She was charged after a woman said Dion threatened her with a gun May 13, which turned out to be a realistic-looking BB...
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 y...
A Havre woman was sentenced to six years with the state Department of Correction after she previously pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon. Erica Ann Dion was sentenced Monday by state District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz, credited with 89 days served and ordered to pay $1,768.93 in jury costs and $592.29 in witness fees for a trial that Snipes Ruiz declared a mistrial in October when Dion did not appear for the ongoing trial. Snipes Ruiz waived other fees and surcharges. A court document said Dion was charged after a woman...
