From the Courts - Man resentenced to two years on 2014 assault charge

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 Nov. 24, 2014, to five years with two suspended to run consecutively with a federal sentence he was serving on a 2011 charge of theft from an Indian gaming establishment by an employee.

He pleaded guilty to the federal charge in July 2011 and was sentenced in October 2011 to three years probation, which was revoked in 2012 and he was resentenced to five months with 28 months of supervised release.

His supervised release was revoked in the federal case in 2014 and he was sentenced to six months in custody, 180 days at a prerelease center followed by 180 days supervised release.

That was revoked in 2016 and he was resentenced to four months in prison followed by 14 months supervised release.

That was revoked in 2017 and he was resentenced to six months in prison with no supervised release.

His release on the Hill County 2014 sentence was revoked in 2018 and he was resentenced in District Court in Havre to two years suspended with credit for 48 days served.

He was sentenced in District Court in Great Falls in 2018 to 36 months, suspended, on a felony charge of failure to register as a violent offender.

Hill County Attorney’s Office filed a petition to revoke his release on the Hill County charge in March of this year on an allegation he had changed his residence without notifying authorities.

He admitted in a hearing May 21 that he had violated the conditions of his release and District Judge David Cybulski revoked his suspended sentence and resentenced him to two years with credit for 32 days served, to run at the same time as the Cascade County sentence.