Stidham back in jail on $50K bond

Cindy Roberts Stidham, charged with trying to shoot her husband, is back in jail this morning, charged with violating the terms of her release.

Police say she they caught her in a bar drinking with the husband she is charged with trying to shoot. They allege she had meth in her possession.

Stidham, born in 1966, is being held on $50,000 bond for violating conditions of release and $50,000 bond on pending charges of possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Havre police say an officer found a bindle in Stidham’s pocket that field-tested positive for methamphetamine.

This is the third set of charges alleging she violated conditions of her release on bond.

No hearing on the petition to revoke her release, filed Monday, had been scheduled as of this morning.

Stidham was charged June 28 with a felony count of assault with a weapon and two counts of partner or family member assault, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, all misdemeanors, after she was accused of forcing her way into her estranged husband’s residence and business and allegedly pointing a handgun at him. The charge was reduced from the arrest, which charged her with attempted murder.

Her husband, Randy Stidham, told investigating officers that she cocked a .22 caliber pistol that belonged to him and and pointed it at him. He knocked it out of her hands, he said.

After a struggle, Cindy Stidham left and later was located at her residence by Hill County deputy sheriffs, a charging document says.

Randy Stidham told officers that he noticed after Cindy Stidham left that his gun had jammed. He told officers he was glad she had not grabbed his 9 mm pistol because it does not jam and he would have been shot.

In November, state District Judge Dan Boucher found that she had violated conditions of her release on two occasions, including twice going out drinking with Randy Stidham, also violating an order prohibiting her contacting him.

In December, Boucher approved modifying the no contact order, allowing her to see Randy Stidham but only relative to seeing their children.

Friday, the petition to revoke release says, an officer saw Cindy Stidham in a local tavern. He also saw Randy Stidham leave the bar.

When he approached Cindy Stidham, she denied having been drinking, the document says, and said the reason a breath test measured alcohol in her system was because she had eaten three breath mints, the document says.

The officer found a bindle in Stidham’s pocket containing a substance that tested positive for meth, the document says.