Woman sentenced for three felonies

A woman has been placed with the Montana Department of Corrections for five years for a handful of crimes in Flathead Valley.

Felicia Mae Wilkins, 27, was sentenced last week in Flathead District Court to 13 years with the Montana Department of Corrections, with eight of those years suspended.

The sentence came after Wilkins agreed to plead guilty to one count each of felony theft, burglary and criminal possession of dangerous drugs as part of a plea agreement in which other felony counts of criminal possession of dangerous drugs, theft, and assault with a weapon were dropped.

According to court documents the plea agreement encompasses four separate cases.

In the first case Wilkins was caught on April 19, 2015, at the Super 8 motel with sunglasses, drug paraphernalia and heroin residue inside the bag.

In the second case Wilkins was accused of taking firearms, ammunition, sunglasses, clothing and electronics from a home on First Avenue West on Sept. 13, 2015. Wilkins admitted to an officer that she broke into the home in the middle of the day and took the guns, a duffel bag full of clothing and some electronics. She was found in possession of one of the firearms that was reported stolen.

In the third incident Wilkins was accused of driving a stolen pickup truck on Aug. 15, 2015, in Evergreen.

Charges from the fourth case were dismissed in their entirety. That case had included allegations that Wilkins had threatened a man with a folding knife.

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