Suspect faces bail of $135,500 for series of alleged offenses

A felon accused of stabbing a man at a home on Silver Leaf Drive in Kalispell on Dec. 28 is going to have to stay in jail a while longer.

Court officials canceled a bail hearing on Thursday for a felony theft charge after the Flathead County Attorney’s Office filed an additional charge of felony assault with a weapon charge against Robert Wayne Snide Jr., 31.

Snide’s bail is currently set at $135,500 for a host of alleged offenses.

According to court documents, Kalispell Police responded to Kalispell Regional Medical Center on Dec. 28, where a 34-year-old man was being treated for a stabbing. He had injuries to his diaphragm, lung and liver. The man told investigators that “Bobby” stabbed him. He later identified “Bobby” as Snide from a lineup of photographs.

A witness told investigators that he had been in a building with Snide and the victim. The witness stepped outside briefly to make a phone call and heard a sound and then screams. The victim emerged and said that he had been stabbed. Snide allegedly emerged from the building, took the  phone from the witness and ran off.

Arraignment is set for Feb. 18.

In a separate case, Snide pleaded not guilty on Jan. 7 to a felony theft charge that resulted after a suspicious-person call on Dec. 1 led an officer to Snide, who was sitting in the driver’s seat of a Chevy Tahoe at a gas station in Whitefish. Snide allegedly told the officer that his friend was inside the store trying to steal doughnuts. Snide was taken into custody for driving without a license.

A search of the vehicle allegedly found acetylene tanks and other construction gear that had been stolen a day earlier.  

Snide’s total bail also includes several smaller amounts that resulted from lesser warrants, including one from Michigan.

He allegedly left supervision of probation and parole officers there without permission. He is serving a probationary sentence from 2011 for felony larceny of a building. He was also convicted of  felony assault in 2002, as well as a operating a methamphetamine lab in 2010.

A judge also granted a family an order of protection against Snide in November 2015 after Snide allegedly threatened to stab and kill his girlfriend’s child’s father.

Snide also has a number of lesser convictions from Michigan for driving without a license and other traffic infractions.

In at least two of those cases, he failed to show up in court, and in one case the court had to garnish his income tax refund to get the fines it had assessed.

Reporter Megan Strickland can be reached at 758-4459 or mstrickland@dailyinterlake.com.