Lake County District Court news for Dec. 2, 2010
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C.B. McNeil dealt with the following cases Nov. 24:
Jason Randall Eversole, 41, Bigfork, was sentenced to the Department of Corrections for three years with previous conditions of probation re-imposed for criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a felony. The court also recommended Eversole be considered for in-patient treatment.
According to court documents, charges stem from an August 2008 incident where Eversole got in an argument with his girlfriend and allegedly grabbed her by the hair and dragged her across their Wood’s Bay residence. When police and ambulance crews arrived, they observed Eversole highly intoxicated. Eversole had a small cut on his hand and became belligerent with medical personnel and the sheriff’s deputy. After being handcuffed and placed in a patrol car, he slipped the handcuffs under his feet, allowing him to smear blood on the backseat and windows of the patrol car. Upon arrival at the jail, detention officers discovered in Eversole’s possession an unidentified pill bottle with marijuana inside.
Robert Sivonen, 44, Pablo, was sentenced to the Department of Corrections for 15 years with 10 suspended for sexual assault, a felony.
Previous conditions of probations were re-imposed, and the court recommended Sivonen be considered for treatment in an appropriate facility. Sivonen is registered as a Level I sexual offender.
According to court documents, charges date back to 2004, when Sivonen’s victim was in sixth grade. Sivonen touched the victim’s private areas over and under clothing. This continued until September of 2007 when the victim threatened to shoot off a part of Sivonen’s anatomy.
In November of this year Sivonen admitted to violating terms of his probation including: admitting to consuming alcohol at a bar, and sporadically babysitting — for the past six months — three children between the ages of 6 months and five years old, without approval from his probation officer and sexual offender therapist.
William Hopkins Maus, 23, of Missoula, pleaded not guilty to charges of negligent homicide, a felony. Maus remains at liberty. An omnibus hearing is set for Wednesday, Dec. 22 at 9 a.m.
According to court records, the charge stems from a Feb. 6, 2009 incident when a Montana Highway Patrol trooper responded to a four-vehicle fatality crash on U.S. Highway 93 near mile marker 41. The trooper determined that a Ford Explorer, a Honda Civic and a Dodge Caravan had been traveling southbound on the highway and a Kenworth truck tractor had been traveling northbound.
The Ford had slowed and signaled to turn left. Following the Ford was the Honda, driven by Maus, who failed to notice and struck the right rear of the Ford causing it to rotate counter-clockwise and into the northbound lane, directly in front of the northbound Kenworth.
The driver of the Kenworth did not have time to brake and struck the passenger side of the Ford with extreme force, causing it to push back into and across the southbound lane, rotating an unknown number of times. The driver was pronounced dead from injuries sustained in the collision.
Although the MHP trooper who investigated the collision indicated that he had no suspicion that Maus was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, a blood sample provided by Maus after the crash revealed THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Maus has a medical marijuana card for treating intermittent pain from an injury and partially successful surgical procedure.
Court records indicate Maus used marijuana for pain management multiple times in January and February of 2009. A Montana state toxicologist was unable to say what the THC concentration in Maus’ blood was at the time of the collision, but levels after the crash indicate Maus could have ingested THC within six hours of the wreck.
