Olney man gets three-year sentence

A 43-year-old Olney man was sentenced June 7 in Flathead District Court to three years in jail and two years of probation.

Steven Boyd previously had pleaded guilty to felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs and misdemeanor partner or family member assault.

The charges came after he sneaked into a Patrick Creek Road home and surprised a woman and her boyfriend, who were in bed.

Boyd took the woman’s cellphone and the cord for the landline so she could not call law enforcement and convinced her to leave with him. They eventually were stopped by law officers down the road.

In exchange for pleading guilty to the two charges, further felony charges of burglary and kidnapping were dropped. According to Boyd’s attorney, Sean Hinchey, it was determined that the kidnapping charge was unfounded.

Boyd was sentenced to three years in jail and two years suspended on the drug charge and a concurrent six months in the Flathead County Detention Center for the assault charge.

A prior three-year sentence for a 2008 felony conviction for issuing a bad check was reinstated, to run concurrent with his new sentences.

He also was ordered to pay a $1,250 fine, an $800 public defender fee, a $235 surcharge and a $100 prosecution fee.