Articles with the Tag: Courts
POLSON — A Columbia Falls woman has been ordered to pay restitution totaling $78,824.21 for her participation in possessing items she knew were stolen from storage units in the Condon Area. Sierra Kay Fischer, 28, was convicted for crimes involving co-defendants Eugene Thomas Germain, 27; Bran...
POLSON — A Great Falls man who led law enforcement from two counties on a high-speed chase on U.S. Highway 93 after he escaped from a Montana Department of Corrections program admitted to the charges related to the incident. Joseph Patrick Thomas Brown, 36, pled guilty at District Court in Polson on...
POLSON — A Polson man is getting four separate drug cases dismissed for pleading guilty to a fifth. Matthew George Manyhides, 33, entered a guilty plea to felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs and a reduced charge of misdemeanor assault. The pleas were entered during a change of plea hearing at...
POLSON — The Lake County Attorney’s office dismissed child abuse charges against Homer Lyle Colman, of Arlee, on Feb. 16, 2021. Colman, 68, had pled not guilty to the crimes during an arraignment hearing at District Court in Polson on Dec. 10, 2020. Charges stem from an April 2019 report ma...
POLSON — A Big Arm man is accused of threatening two people with a machete in Pablo this past July. Junior Gardipe, 33, entered a plea of not guilty at District Court in Polson Sept. 15 to two counts of assault with a weapon and attempted robbery, all felonies. According to court records, on July 29...
AURORA, COLORADO — A 20-year-old man from Polson is being charged with first degree murder in the death of his girlfriend. Dakota Chinnock was arrested Sept. 5, for allegedly beating his girlfriend, Amanda Farley, 20, of Polson, to death between the evening of Sept. 4 and the morning of Sept. 5. He ...
POLSON — A Ronan man has admitted to dealing heroin in Lake County. Jose Anders Gonzalez, 30, entered a plea of guilty at District Court in Polson on Sept. 9 to one felony count of criminal possession with intent to distribute. The guilty plea came as part of an agreement that will dismiss at sentencin...
POLSON — A Ronan man was committed to the Montana Department of Corrections for a total of 15 years with all but five years suspended during a sentencing hearing at District Court in Polson on Sept. 9. Bojai Dominick Grant-Schmidt, 20, pled guilty at District Court in Polson on June 17, to strangulatio...
POLSON — A Ronan woman is accused of being high on drugs and passed out in a vehicle with a child in the car on a hot day. Miesha Skye Barnett, 24, entered a plea of not guilty at District Court in Polson on Sept. 1 to felony criminal endangerment. According to charging documents, on Aug. 12, law en...
POLSON — District Judge James Manley set a trial date of Feb. 14, 2022, for a Polson woman accused of driving while impaired with a child under the age of 14 in her car. Savanah Yvonne Kenmille, 35, entered a plea of not guilty at District Court in Polson to felony criminal child endangerment on Sep...
