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1. Man Who Killed Teacher Pleads
Guilty to Drug Charges
A Kalispell man convicted of negli- gent homicide after killing a Somers Mid- dle School teacher in a car crash in 2006 pleaded guilty last week to a drug charge in Lake County.
Jason DeShazer pleaded guilty to criminal possession of dangerous drugs in Lake County District Court on Jan. 6. The change of plea hearing came a day before the 32-year-old man appeared in Flathead County District Court for a revocation hearing.
DeShazer was arrested in Lake County last September and charged with criminal possession of dangerous drugs and criminal possession of drug paraphernalia. The second charge was dropped in the plea deal and DeShazer will be sentenced next month.
On Oct. 26, 2006, DeShazer was drunk behind the wheel of a vehicle when he crossed the centerline on Montana Highway 82 near the Flathead Water- fowl Production Area and crashed head on into a Subaru driven by Dawn Bowker, according to court documents. Bowker, a sixth grade teacher at Somers Middle School, died in the crash.
DeShazer pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in 2007 and was sentenced to 20 years at Montana State Prison with 10 years suspended. DeShazer was released on parole after 3 and a half years.
In November 2015, Flathead County Attorney Ed Corrigan led a petition for revocation of a suspended sentence argu- ing that DeShazer had violated the terms of his parole. During the Jan. 7 revocation hearing, DeShazer entered general deni- als and he is expected to be back in court next month.
ST. IGNATIUS
2. Authorities Identify Victim in Crash
Authorities have identi ed the victim of a crash in Lake County.
Lake County Sheri Don Bell said Lance Albert Rishel, 30, was killed in a vehicle accident in St. Ignatius around
3:30 a.m. on Jan. 3. A passerby discov- ered Rishel’s sedan crashed o the road against a tree on Dublin Gulch Road o U.S. Highway 93. He was the lone person in the vehicle, Bell said.
The crash is under investigation.
DEER LODGE
3. Not Guilty Pleas Entered in
Montana Silver Bar Killings
A Montana judge entered not guilty pleas on Jan. 5 on behalf of a handyman charged with killing a Deer Lodge man and his mother during a confrontation over the theft of 1,700 ounces of silver, Powell County o cials said.
David Wayne Nelson was arraigned before District Judge Ray Dayton in Deer Lodge, County Attorney Lewis Smith said. Nelson remains jailed without bail. A trial date has not been set.
Nelson, 53, is charged with two counts of deliberate homicide in the Oct. 24 deathsofGregoryGiannonattiandBev- erly Giannonatti. Nelson confessed to the killings on Nov. 29 and told authori- ties where they could nd the bodies and other evidence, court records said.
Nelson confessed to attacking them in the bathroom of Beverly Giannonatti’s deceased ex-husband’s house during an argument over 17 missing 100-ounce bars of silver, prosecutors said. Nelson also is charged with stealing the silver and dis- posing of evidence, including the ham- mer he used to strike Greg Giannonatti.
Nelson sold the stolen silver for about $26,000 at a gold and silver shop in Mis- soula, prosecutors charged.
Public defenders Sherri Petro- vich-Staedler and Walter Hennessey of Butte asked that Dayton enter the pleas to theft, deliberate homicide and obstructing justice on Nelson’s behalf because they hadn’t decided whether to request a mental health evaluation. The attorneys reserved the right to ask the judge to set bail.
In Ravalli County, prosecutors peti- tioned to revoke the suspended portion of Nelson’s sentence for a 1998 kidnapping and accountability to robbery.
On Dec. 23, Nelson denied violating
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