Woman accused of pulling out knife at hospital pleads not guilty to felony charge

The woman arrested after allegedly waving a knife around the lobby of Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell on New Year's Eve is facing an assault with a weapon charge.  

Amber Rose Wenzl, 44, pleaded not guilty to the felony before Judge Danni Coffman in Flathead County District Court on Jan. 16. She was released from the county jail the following day on her own recognizance. The date of her next scheduled appearance in court was not immediately available. 

Wenzl allegedly had spent most of the day drinking when she was dropped off at the hospital about 4:55 p.m., Dec. 31, according to court documents. Security personnel, alerted about a woman armed with a knife in the lobby, came face-to-face with Wenzl soon after, court documents alleged. They described her to investigators as “holding, waving and pointing a knife.”