Judge imposes Brockway sentence

Tracy Brockway, the sole woman prosecuted for her involvement with the local paramilitary group Project 7, was back in District Court on Thursday.

District Judge Ted Lympus found Brockway, 35, to be in violation of a suspended sentence.

He reimposed the 10-year sentence, with no credit for the three years she spent on probation or time she spent in federal prison.

On July 23, 2002, District Judge Stewart Stadler sentenced Brockway to a 10-year suspended prison term for felony obstruction of justice.

She admitted she helped hide Project 7 leader David Burgert when police were looking for him for bail jumping.

Burgert faked his own death and went into hiding in January 2002.

He was discovered at Brockway's house west of Kalispell. Officers chased the pair, arresting Brockway and eventually Burgert after an armed standoff in the woods.

She was allowed to move to Georgia, where she was arrested in May 2004 on federal charges of conspiring to possess illegal firearms along with other members of Project 7.

For that charge, she served a 16-month term in federal prison that ended Aug. 2.

Brockway admits she failed to report to a probation officer in Georgia as a required condition of her suspended sentence in Montana.

On Thursday, she denied failing to tell her probation officer in Georgia that she had moved.

"I remember telling him I had moved out of my residence," she testified.

"I guess he obviously doesn't remember me telling him."

Brockway said she intends to move back to Georgia.