Courts

The imposition of sentencing was deferred for a period of three years in a case involving a Polson woman who nearly bit her sister’s ear off. Ida Marla Rose Couture, 24, was initially charged with felony aggravated assault, but she pled guilty to the reduced charge of criminal endangerment as part of a plea agreement. According to court records, on April 12, 2020, Polson police responded to a report of a woman yelling and spitting at a man in the area of 11th Street E and 10th Ave. E. At the scene, officers located a man and a woman.  The woman was bleeding from her ear, and she told the responding officers that her sister, who was identified as Couture, had been fightin...

A Polson man was ordered to pay restitution of $501,067.49  to the victim of a wreck who ultimately had to have a foot amputated due to injuries.  The restitution was part of the sentence handed down at District Court in Polson, on March 10, by Judge James Manley in the case of Dillon S. Bindsch...