A confrontation over the alleged abduction of a canine ended with the arrest of a Kalispell lady on a number of felony expenses earlier this month.
Ashley Nicole Smith, 37, faces felony counts of felony mischief and felony possession of harmful medication after allegedly ramming her ex-boyfriend’s car and threatening him with a gun on Kalispell’s west facet on Sept. 23. Held on the county jail with bail set at $20,000, Smith is predicted to seem earlier than Judge Dan Wilson in Flathead County District Court for her arraignment on Oct. 5.
Kalispell Police officers arrested Smith after responding to a report of a motorcar accident on the five hundred block of Ninth Avenue West about 9:21 a.m. that had became an armed confrontation, court docket paperwork stated. The sufferer instructed officers his ex-girlfriend, recognized as Smith, had rammed his automobile and threatened him with a gun.
Officials put the cost of injury to the sufferer’s car at about $1,500.
According to the sufferer, Smith had beforehand taken the canine of a mutual pal, who was within the hospital, to a home on Lore Lake Road. The Lore Lake Road resident phoned the sufferer that morning to report {that a} lady had come to the home and whisked the animal away. They suspected Smith of the kidnapping, court docket paperwork stated.
The sufferer reported driving to Smith’s 500 block Ninth Avenue West home and allegedly noticed her in her crimson Dodge pickup with the lacking canine. Smith allegedly grew indignant after the sufferer confronted her, ramming his car.
Subsequently taking Smith to the Flathead County Detention Center, authorities searched her individual and belongings, in response to court docket paperwork. Officers allegedly discovered a glass pipe with a white residue and a plastic bag containing a crystalline substance suspected as methamphetamine in her purse, court docket paperwork stated.
If convicted of felony mischief, Smith faces as much as 10 years in Montana State Prison and a $50,000 advantageous. Criminal possession of harmful medication carries a most sentence of 5 years imprisonment and $5,000 advantageous.
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