Bagnell convicted at trial of second stalking offense
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Brandon Bagnell
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POLSON – An Arlee man was convicted of stalking for the second time against the same woman following a one-and-a-half -day trial last week. Brandon Bagnell, 48, was unanimously convicted by a jury on Tuesday, June 6. Sentencing is scheduled for July 26. County Attorney Steve Eschenbacher asked for a persistent felony offender status that could add 5-100 years to Bagnell’s sentence. During the trial three witnesses testified and an audio recording of Bagnell talking to his former step-granddaughter was played, Eschenbacher said. Bagnell wrote a woman letters from the Yellowstone County Detention Facility in Billings on the back of a protection order a court document states. Bagnell is serving five years on the first stalking conviction from 2014. In that case he called a woman’s cell phone 135 times and her home 248 times from the Lake County Jail when an order of protection was in place, according to a court document. Bagnell is appealing the first conviction to the state Supreme Court and is representing himself.
