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Matthew J. Brix was sentenced to spend two years in custody after he pleaded guilty to selling methamphetamine. Brix was charged Sept. 26, 2018, with a felony count of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs after the Tri-Agency Task Force performed a controlled purchase from him Jan 19, 2017. He pleaded guilty Jan. 16. District Judge Jon Oldenburg sentenced Brix in state Disrtrict Court in Havre April 15 to five years with the state Department of Corrections with three years suspended and ordered him to pay fees and...
Jacob Wayne Russette was sentenced to three years probation on a possession of methamphetamine charge. Russette was charged with a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and a misdemeanor count of theft after Hill County Sheriff’s deputies responded to assist Rocky Boy police on a call that they were pursuing a vehicle reported stolen in Havre traveling at speeds up to 100 mph. A deputy stopped the vehicle and upon searching it discovered a bindle of meth. March 6, Russette pleaded guilty to the drug charge bu...
Chad. J. Woundedface was sentenced to serve out the remaining portion of a sentence that had been suspended for drug charges in a 2014 case. He was charged Sept. 25, 2014, with felony counts of distribution of morphine and distribution of imitation drugs and accountability for the distribution of methamphetamine from incidents in 2013. In December 2014, he pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to the first two counts, criminal distribution of dangerous drugs and criminal distribution of imitation dangerous drugs. March 12,...
A Havre woman was in jail this morning after she admitted to hitting a pedestrian with her Chevrolet Trail Blazer and fleeing the scene. Margaret Marie Bear, born in 1979, was in the Hill County Detention Center this morning being held on $50,000 bond on suspicion of negligent vehicular assault, failure to remain at an injury accident, failure to remain at an accident, failure to carry proof of insurance, driving under the influence and driving with an open alcohol container in the vehicle. Police dispatch received a call...
Lance J. Young was given three years of probation after pleading guilty to a charge alleging he possessed methamphetamine. Young was charged Aug. 3 with a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia after police officers investigating an apparent fight at a car found a syringe in his possession. Young refused to allow his vehicle to be searched. After obtaining a search warrant, officers found apparent meth under the seat of the vehicle. Young pleaded...
Elias J. Stump was sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty in a case in which he was accused of jumping up and down on a man’s chest. Stump was charged Aug. 13 after he was accused of assaulting a man who was watching trains go by near a 22nd Avenue rail crossing. The victim said he was approached and started sharing his liquor with the man who approached him, and the man eventually started attacking the vitim, including jumping in the air and landing with his knees on the victim’s chest. BNSF Railway emp...
Emmett L. Windy Boy was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to time served after multiple charges of sexual abuse of a child were reduced to a misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child. Windy Boy was charged July 12, 2016, with four felony counts of sexual abuse of children after investigators said he had conversed with hundreds of women and children via texts and Facebook and attempted to solicit them to send photographs or engage in sexual acts, with allegations including sexual actions with some...
Julia Larita-Jo Snow was sentenced to probation by a District Court judge in Havre after pleading guilty to drug charges. Snow, who was on probation, was charged Nov. 27 with felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs and a misdemeanor count of criminal possession of drug paraphernalia after law enforcement officers were checking on another probationer in a house in which Snow also was present found methamphetamine and syringes, spoons and baggies commonly used with drugs. Snow pleaded guilty Jan. 6 under a plea agreement...
From the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — Tristen Jace Gone of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, who admitted hitting his domestic partner, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison and two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Gone, 19, pleaded guilty in November to domestic abuse by a habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. Prosecutors said evidence showed that Gone punched the victim in the face and arm and threw her down a...
PRESS RELEASE GREAT FALLS — Geneva Nadeau of Hays, convicted of sexually abusing and photographing a child, was sentenced Wednesday to 22 years in federal prison and to 15 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Nadeau, 38, pleaded guilty earlier to aggravated sexual abuse. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. Prosecutors said that in October 2015 in Hays on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Nadeau sexually abused a child who was younger than 12 and photographed the abuse. Nadeau was indicted a...
Press release GREAT FALLS — Havre resident Charly McLain Rosette was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison and three years of supervised for conspiring to distribute prescription pain pills on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said in a press release Thursday. Rosette, 26, pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute Oxycodone. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. Prosecutors presented evidence that Rosette, and two co-defendants, Isaiah Sta...
Press release GREAT FALLS — Box Elder resident Larry Ray Denny Jr., admitted a domestic assault charge Tuesday in federal court, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today. Denny, 46, pleaded guilty to domestic assault by a habitual offender. Denny faces a maximum five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. Judge Morris set sentencing for June 6. Denny was released pending sentencing. Prosecutors said evidence would show that law enforcement arrived at t...
A man was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to five years probation and was ordered to forfeit $535 and a 2008 Saab SUV after he previously pleaded guilty to reduced drug charges in a plea agreement. Aaron Michael Bishop pleaded guilty Oct. 29 to felony charges of criminal possession of dangerous drugs, amended from a charge of criminal possession of dangerous drugs with intent to distribute, use or possession of property subject to forfeiture, and a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of intoxicants,...
A man who led police on a high-speed chase in Havre in November 2017 was given probation in two separate cases and ordered property including two pistols and $1,695 cash. Tyrell Nault pleaded guilty in plea agreements Oct. 23 to felony charges of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and possession of property subject to forfeiture. District Judge Jon Oldenburg of Lewistown imposed a three-year deferred imposition of sentence on Nault Dec. 10 on one case and sentenced him to three years, all suspended, in the second. Oldenbu...
A state district judge recommended Casey O. Mummey be placed in a treatment program when he sentenced Mummey to three years for violating conditions of his release for failing to register as a violent offender in 2015. Judge Jon Oldenburg of Lewistown said Mummey has been in the system for 16 years, with all offenses likely drug-related, and while he wanted to put Mummey in a treatment program community-based treatment has not worked previously. Mummey also had convictions in 2002 on a charge of assault with a weapon in Hill...
Havre Daily News Staff A state District Judge revoked a deferred imposition of sentence and resentenced a man who pleaded guilty to embezzling thousands of dollars from a local store to three years probation. James Christopher Dahl Jr. pleaded guilty in 2017 to stealing $9,000 from the Havre Kmart while working as a supervisor. A company representative said he had been taking money from the safe while working as a night-time supervisor, with the total amount stolen estimated to be as high as $16,000. Judge Dan Boucher...
Press release GREAT FALLS – A Box Elder resident admitted in federal court on Dec. 10 to domestic abuse charges for repeatedly assaulting the victim, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said. Cole Young Bad Hawk, 24, pleaded guilty to domestic abuse by an habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided at the hearing. Judge Morris set sentencing for March 21. Bad Hawk is detained. Bad Hawk faces a maximum 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. If the case had gone to trial, the gover...
A woman was sentenced to 18 months on probation after pleading guilty to distributing drugs to prisoners in the Hill County jail. Judge Jon Oldenburg imposed 18-month deferred impositions of sentence, to run at the same time, on Alysha Dawn Rodriguez Dec. 4 on each of felony counts of transfer of illegal material and use or possession of property subject to forfeiture. A felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs with intent to distribute and a misdemeanor count of criminal possession of drug paraphernalia were...
A woman was placed on probation after she pleaded guilty to drug offenses stemming from a search of a vehicle in which she was sleeping on a bitterly cold night. District Judge Jon Oldenburg imposed an 18-month deferred imposition of sentence on Mercedes McDowell Dec. 4 for a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs. She pleaded guilty to the charge Oct. 29 in a plea agreement which dismissed another felony count of possession of drugs and misdemeanor counts of drug and drug paraphernalia possession. If she...
A woman who was found to possess drugs while she was in the Hill County Detention Center following being kicked off Amtrak will spend a year-and-a-half under state supervision. District Judge Jon Oldenberg of Lewistown, sitting in for the 12th Judicial District in Hill County while a replacement for retired Judge Dan Boucher is selected, sentenced Angelica Cartagena to 18 months, all suspended, for a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs, all suspended. Detention center staff members found methamphetamine on...
A Kremlin resident was in the Hill County Detention Center on $50,000 bond awaiting charges to be filed stemming from reports he had sex with a middle school-aged girl. Jaden Peet, born in 2000, was being held on pending charges of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and endangering the welfare of a child. According to court documents, parents of a girl contacted law enforcement Oct. 30 to report they had found text messages that implied the girl had snuck out to spend the night with Peet. The alleged victim...
Dakota Houle was sentenced in state District Court in Havre Monday to probation on two separate charges to which he pleaded guilty. Judge Dan Boucher sentenced Houle, born in 1996, to five years, all suspended, on charges stemming from allegations he threatened a man with a pistol March 31, 2017, and stole an assault rifle from him. Boucher also imposed a three-year deferred imposition of sentence on a charge Houle led Rocky Boy police on a high-speed chase in a sports utility...
Nancy Leeann Cline was sentenced Monday in state District Court in Havre to eight years with the state Department of Corrections with all but 18 months suspended for theft from an employer and theft from a person for whom she was giving care. Cline pleaded guilty in October 2017 to theft by common scheme for from AT&T while she was working for the company. She attempted to withdraw from the plea agreement when the Hill County Attorney's Office said it would withdraw from its...
A man charged with aggravated assault in 2016 who was convicted after a two-day trial in state District Court in Havre was sentenced to seven years under state supervision. Curtis W. Stanley was accused of on Oct. 2, 2016, grabbing a woman who, along with another man, was watching football with him. She said he threw her down, kicked her and strangled her until the other man pulled him off. Then he grabbed a pot of boiling water in which they were cooking some meat and threw it on her, causing second-degree burns on her arm a...
Havre Daily News staff Keiffert T. Nordgulen was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to time served on a reduced charge under a plea agreement. Nordgulen was arrested after officers responded to a rollover crash Oct. 24, 2015. He told investigating officers he was a passenger in the car. Others in the vehicle said he was the driver. One of the passengers who was transported to the local hospital was flown to Great Falls for treatment. Officers arrested Nordgulen on a felony charge of criminal endangerment and...
