Man jailed for ramming wife, child with vehicle

A Kalispell man is accused of running his truck into his wife’s car on Friday, sending both the woman and her daughter to the hospital.

Michael Paul Noland, 47, is being held in Flathead County jail on an assault with a weapon charge. He is set for arraignment Oct. 8.

Prosecutors claim in court documents that Noland revved his truck, peeled out of Ridgewood Drive and hit his wife’s car as the woman was removing the couple’s 2-year-old daughter from her car seat.

Witnesses at the scene said they saw the woman on the ground and bleeding after the crash. The girl had a large lump on her forehead.

When officers interviewed the victims at the hospital, they found cuts on the woman’s head and bruises on the child’s head. The woman told officers that Noland kept driving and did not stop and render aid.

An order of protection was ordered for the woman and child in May after a number of instances where Noland became violent toward his family.

In April, Noland allegedly threw a brick through the back window of the family’s car. In May, the woman reported Noland threatened to hurt her and was throwing things at her. There is a misdemeanor partner/family member assault charge pending against Noland in Kalispell Municipal Court.

The order of protection was granted after the woman withdrew a previous application for a protection order in December 2014. The woman originally placed the application in November 2014, after an incident where Noland kicked in her door and threatened to kill her.

A few days later Noland was found by law enforcement officers after he called his wife and told her he had set fire to a house and was going to stay inside the building and die while it burned.   

Noland is a multistate felony offender with a long list of non-violent crimes in Flathead Valley over the past 15 years, ranging from theft to driving under the influence of alcohol.