Woman charged with knife assault

A 37-year-old Evergreen woman has been charged with felony assault with a weapon after allegedly stabbing the father of her child with a steak knife.

Karrie Lynn Gibson was arrested Feb. 27 in a trailer court just off U.S. 2 East where Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies found a man with blood on his head and neck after someone reported a physical disturbance at the residence.

The victim, Steven Herriges, said he was sleeping with the couple’s 9-month-old boy when Gibson began yelling at him.

He told deputies he picked up the boy and began walking down a hallway when Gibson attacked him and cut him with a steak knife, which later was found with blood on its blade.

Gibson said that Herriges was trying to put the knife away when she struck him, inadvertently causing him to be cut by the knife.

He was treated for a laceration on his head.

Deputies found blood on the coffee table, carpet and in the kitchen of the trailer. They also located containing three grams of marijuana, according to court documents.

Gibson said she had been drinking and that she has problems controlling her anger and consumption of alcohol, according to court documents.

She was angry at Herriges for going to a bar, according to a report by the Sheriff’s Office.

The Flathead County Attorney’s Office also charged her with misdemeanor criminal possession of dangerous drugs and partner/family member assault.

There already are two pending partner-family member assault charges against Gibson. In both cases she allegedly attacked Herriges, according to court documents.

She’s being held in the Flathead County Detention Center awaiting an arraignment in District Court.

A conviction for assault with a weapon carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in Montana State Prison and a fine of $50,000. The two misdemeanors are punishable by a maximum of six months in jail.