Sentence is deferred for felony stalker

A 25-year-old Kalispell man was given a three-year deferred sentence Jan. 3 in Flathead District Court after pleading guilty to a felony charge of stalking.

According to a court document, Thomas Lamarr was served with a protection order on June 6, 2012, prohibiting him from being within 1,500 feet of a particular woman, her place of employment or her home and prohibiting him from having any communication with her.

On June 12, 2012, he contacted her and asked to stay at her home, eventually gaining her permission by threatening to send nude photos of her to other people. The next day she asked him to leave. He refused, then stabbed himself in the leg.

Lamarr was then taken into custody and cited for violating the protective order.

Police obtained a search warrant to check Lamarr’s phone, which was seized as evidence when he was arrested. They discovered 30 text messages from Lamarr to the woman between the date he was served with the order and the date of his arrest.

After being released from jail, Lamarr obtained a new phone, and sent 65 texts to her over the span of one week. He also showed up at her place of employment at least three times and called her at least 22 times on her cellphone or at work.