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A local woman was sentenced to six months in jail, all suspended, on a reduced drug charge stemming from a law enforcement search of a residence where she was present. Christina Mary Converse originally was charged with a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs when a non-prescribed prescription pill was found on her. The prosecution later amended the charges to a misdemeanor count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and Converse pleaded guilty to that charge in a plea agreement. District Judge Kaydee...
From the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana A Lodge Pole man convicted at trial for assaulting his girlfriend on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today in federal District Court in Great Falls to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. A jury Nov. 6 found Jeremy Davis Wing, 40, guilty of domestic abuse by habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. During the three-day trial in November, the prosecution presented evidence t...
From the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A former assistant basketball coach at Stone Child College on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation was arraigned Monday on an indictment accusing him of crimes involving sexual exploitation of a child, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Christopher Brown of Box Elder, 31, pleaded not guilty to sexual exploitation of a child, transportation of child pornography and sexual abuse of a minor. If convicted of the most serious crime, Brown faces a mandatory min...
From the Office of The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A Havre man convicted of domestic assault after breaking his girlfriend’s nose during an argument on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. James John Russell McConnell, 44, pleaded guilty in September to domestic assault by habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided and ordered the 54-month sentence be served con...
From U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A jury Friday convicted a Fort Belknap man accused of assaulting and strangling a woman in Lodge Pole on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation last year, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. The jury found Jordan Alexander Werk, 32, guilty of assault by striking, beating or wounding and of strangulation. The jury acquitted Werk of assault of a dating partner resulting in substantial bodily injury. Werk faces a maximum 10 years, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised relea...
From the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A Harlem man was sentenced to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Oct. 10 for conviction on domestic abuse charges, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Jerel Edgar Johnson, 35, of Harlem, pleaded guilty in June to domestic abuse by a habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. The prosecution said in court records that Johnson assaulted the victim twice in June 2018 near Snake Butte on the Fort Belknap I...
Tanner Joseph Walker was sentenced to six months probation after pleading guilty in a plea agreement that included dismissing a felony charge. Walker was charged May 14, 2018, with a felony count of aggravated burglary and a misdemeanor count of assault after a person reported he walked into a house and punched a person. He was scheduled to plead guilty in the plea agreement April 22, but District Judge John Parker said his statements implied his use of force was justified and did not accept the plea. Walker pleaded guilty...
Tevin James Barron was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay more than $3,000 in restitution after he pleaded guilty to writing a string of checks on a closed account. Barron was charged Oct. 30, 2018, with a felony count of issuing bad checks by common scheme after multiple Havre businesses reported he had written checks on the account. The initial investigation said he had written at least 53 checks totaling $1,975.74. He pleaded guilty to the charge in a plea agreement April 29. District Judge Kaydee Snipes...
Jaret J. Blackcrow was sentenced to three years on one charge and given a suspended sentence for jumping bail on that charge. Blackcrow was charged with a felony count of assault with a weapon and a misdemeanor charge of partner or family member assault Dec. 23, 2015, after he was reported to have gotten into an argument and ended up pushing a television onto a man, injuring him. He pleaded guilty to the felony Feb. 11, 2016, but failed to show up for his sentencing hearing in April 2016. He was arrested on a charge of bail...
Jordan Cole Hofland was sentenced to three years probation after he pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to crashing a vehicle after huffing Dust-Off. Hofland was charged with felony counts criminal endangerment and criminal mischief and a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of drugs after people reported a blue Chevrolet pickup truck Oct. 24, 2017, crashed into a tree on the 500 Block of 14th Street, uprooting the tree, then crashed into a black pickup truck, pushing that truck into a residence and damaging the re...
Stephen J. Favel was resentenced in court in Havre to two years for violating conditions of his release to run at the same time as a sentence from court in Cascade County. Favel was charged in 2014 after a woman said they got into an argument and she ended up throwing a ceramic figurine at him, hitting him in the head. She said he then hit her, strangled her and broke the figurine over her head. Favel pleaded guilty to a felony charge of partner or family member assault in October 2014 in a plea agreement. He was sentenced No...
Jamie Dawn The Boy was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to four years probation on a charge alleging she was selling drugs. She pleaded guilty to the felony charge criminal distribution of dangerous drugs in a plea agreement March 27. Judge David Cybulski sentenced The Boy May 21 to four years with the state Department of Corrections, all suspended, and ordered her to pay fees and surcharges. Cybulski ordered that The Boy would be allowed to enter bars and casinos for dining and employment. The Boy was charged...
A man and a woman who both pleaded guilty to charges they were found with drugs in a Havre hotel in December have been sentenced in Havre District Court in separate cases. Hayley Kelm and Tyrell Nault both were charged after a hotel called law enforcement to say people who had paid for a room with a credit card that was declined refused to leave. Law enforcement searched the room rented by Kelm and Nault, who was on probation from sentences of previous offenses, and found 11.7 grams of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and...
Reuben Jesse Gillian was sentenced to five years probation on a charge of bail jumping. Gillian was sentenced in October 2018 to a five-year sentence, all suspended, after he pleaded guilty to a charge of strangulation of a family member. He was charged with bail jumping in October 2018 for failing to appear at his originally scheduled sentencing hearing in June of 2018. Gillian pleaded guilty to the bail jumping charge March 18 in a plea agreement. District Judge Yvonne Laird sentenced Gillian May 13 in state District court...
Birgin Lane Billy was sentenced to one year of probation on a reduced charge stemming from allegations she was driving at speeds up to 80 mph and crashed into a tree. Billy pleaded guilty in state District Court in Havre May 6 to a misdemeanor charge of negligent endangerment, reduced from a felony charge of criminal endangerment, and a misdemeanor charge of failure to give notice of an accident. District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz imposed a one-year deferred imposition of sentence on the endangerment charge and fined Billy...
Lachelle Wadelle Doney received three years probation on a drug charge for methamphetamine being found on her while being booked on another charge. Court documents say law enforcement officers arrested Doney on a trespassing charge Nov. 13, 2018. While booking her at the Hill County Detention Center, officers found methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia on her person. She was charged Nov, 21, 2018, with a felony count of possession of dangerous drugs and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia. Doney pleaded...
Aliesha M. The Boy was sentenced in state district court in Havre to five years followed by five on probation on a drug charge, to run at the same time as a sentence of five years with two suspended imposed in 2017 in another case. The Boy was charged after law enforcement officers found her in a residence while they were looking for someone on probation who had not been going to work. She was charged with a felony count of criminal possession of 11.7 grams of methamphetamine and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug...
Jonah Colby Walker was given three years probation after he pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle with a 12-year-old inside after drinking. Walker was charged Oct. 31 2017, after a law enforcement officer pulled over at 5:25 p.m. the yellow Volkswagon beetle he was driving for driving 41 mph in a 25 zone. Walker was charged with a felony count of criminal child endangerment and misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of intoxicants and operating a motor vehicle without liability insurance in effect. March 18, Walker...
Danielle Christine Wilson was sentenced to two years probation after pleading guilty to being found with drugs during a traffic stop. She was charged with a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs after a police officer found .01 grams of methamphetamine in her possession. She pleaded guilty Feb. 24 under a plea agreement. May 3, Judge David Cybulski sentenced Wilson in state District Court in Havre to two years, all suspended and with credit for 19 days served, and modified conditions of her release to allow...
Lynn R. Werk was sentenced to five years plus five years probation after she pleaded guilty to drug charges. Werk pleaded guilty Feb. 28, 2019, to a felony count of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs alleging she gave away methamphetamine Nov. 19, 2018, and admitted violating conditions of her release on a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for 2014 charges she distributed hydrocodone. She was charged after officers trying to find a probationer who had not gone to work and was reported to have a company vehicle...
A daughter and her father are both facing charges in state District Court In Havre on separate but related charges to accusations she threatened a woman with a BB gun. Erica Ann Dion pleaded not guilty in the court in Havre Monday to a felony count of assault with a weapon and a misdemeanor count of disturbing the peace. Scott Edward Dion was charged Monday with felony counts of tampering with a witness and information and solicitation of compounding a felony. He is scheduled for an initial hearing July 1. According to court...
A local man has been charged with raping a teenage girl who said she had gone out on her first-ever night of drinking. JayR Caplette was charged June 11 with a felony count of sexual intercourse without consent. An arraignment, in which the defendant typically enters his or her initial plea, is scheduled for July 1. According to charging documents, a man approached Havre police July 5, 2016, to report a girl said she had been raped by Caplette. The man said the girl, who was 15 at the time, had been pressured by her peers to...
A Havre woman was sentenced this week in District Court in Havre to seven-and-a-half years plus 10 years probation after pleading guilty to charges reduced from counts including attempted deliberate homicide. Brooke Ann Black Tongue, born in 1988, was charged May 14, 2018, with felony counts of attempted deliberate homicide, partner or family member assault by strangulation and assault with a weapon and misdemeanor counts of unlawful restraint and resisting arrest after a former girlfriend said Blacktongue had attacked her...
Natasha Lynn Peck was sentenced in state District Court to three years of probation on a drug charge. Peck was charged Oct. 24, 2018, with felony counts of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and endangering the welfare of a child when officers investigating a report of drug use found her and several other people along with a 3-year-old child in a residence with marijuana and methamphetamine. Under a plea agreement, Peck pleaded guilty to the drug possession charge Feb. 15 and the prosecutors dropped the endangerment...
From U.S. Attorney for District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A judge on Wednesday sentenced a Box Elder man to eight months in prison and three years of supervised release in the assault of his domestic partner on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Larry Ray Denny Jr., 46, pleaded guilty in January to domestic assault by habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. The assault occurred on Oct. 15, 2017, the prosecution said in court records. The victim told law enforcement that Den...
