Man pleads innocent to bail jumping

The Daily Inter Lake

A Kalispell man suspected of holding up a couple at gunpoint pleaded innocent Thursday to jumping bail.

Rodney A. Silsbee is being held on $120,000 bond.

Flathead District Judge Ted O. Lympus set Silsbee's trial for the April 6 jury term.

Silsbee is accused of breaking into a house on Third Avenue East in June 2007 and threatening a couple with a revolver while demanding money.

The husband and Silsbee scuffled. Silsbee allegedly fired the revolver into the floor - accidentally hitting himself in the foot. He also allegedly hit the husband on the head with the gun, then ran away with nothing.

The husband's superficial wound did not require hospitalization.

Police arrested Silsbee a few hours later. He later allegedly jumped bail, but recently turned himself in to police.

In an earlier court appearance, Silsbee pleaded innocent to one count of robbery and one count of assault with a weapon.