Woman sentenced for tampering with evidence

A 55-year-old Kalispell woman was given an eight-year suspended sentence Feb. 14 in Flathead District Court after pleading guilty to a felony charge of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.

Lynn Harmon helped hide and dispose of evidence related to charges against her 51-year-old brother David Carr, who broke into a woman’s apartment on June 3, stabbed her in the neck and held her at knifepoint for more than an hour.

Carr then went to Harmon’s apartment. He had blood on his hands and clothes and asked her to “help me, sister,” and told her what had happened.

Harmon later told a detective that when Carr came to her apartment, she told him to go get cleaned up, and then took his bloody clothes when he returned and threw them in a trash container. At the time, Harmon said she did not have the knife but could find it, and later retrieved it for the detective.

Harmon cleaned the knife with alcohol and swabs before burying it somewhere in Evergreen.

Carr has been sentenced to five years in prison and 20 years of probation after pleading guilty to assault with a weapon and pleading guilty by way of Alford to felony tempering with or fabricating physical evidence.