Jerry LambeJun 2nd, 2021, 4:10 pm
John Russell Howald
A federal grand jury in Billings, Montana returned an indictment charging a Basin man with a hate crime and a firearm offense for allegedly firing a gun into another individual’s home because of their perceived sexual orientation and threatening them with “violent homophobic slurs,” the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
According to documents unsealed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Montana,
John Russell Howald fired at least one shot into the unidentified person’s house on March 22, 2020, then yelled that he wanted to “get rid of the lesbians [and] gays.” The offense also included an attempt to kill the person, per the indictment.
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Cascade County District Judge John Parker on Thursday sentenced a former Malmstrom Air Force Base airman for fatally shooting another airman.
Parker sentenced Contardo to six years with the Montana Department of Corrections, all suspended.
Contardo must spend 150 days in the Great Falls Pre-Release Center and do 80 community service hours per year with an approved veterans group.
Parker also stipulated that Contardo must purchase a $100 savings bond for Carlson s juvenile daughter each year until his sentence is discharged.
The maximum sentence for negligent homicide is 20 years in the Montana State Prison.
At his change of plea hearing, Contardo admitted that he and Carlson had been drinking when Contardo began messing around with a 9mm handgun, which discharged.
Lander, Wyoming, United States: A woman was given a prison sentence for falsely accusing a man of sexual assault and trying to extort money from him.
36-year-old Rachael Myla Stagner was given 21 months behind bars for falsely accusing a white man of sexually assaulting her on the Wind River Indian Reservation. She was indicted in September 2020 but pleaded guilty in this year to making false statements to authorities.
Stagnerâs lies ignited an investigation by the FBI due to the alleged crime taking place on an Indian reservation. The U.S. Attorneyâs Office said that even as her story started to fall apart, she kept on insisting she had been sexually assaulted in an attempt to extort money from the falsely accused man.
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