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Hotel guest accused of ransacking room ordered to pay restitution

by DERRICK PERKINS
Daily Inter Lake | May 22, 2025 12:00 AM

A man arrested last year after allegedly trashing his Columbia Falls hotel room in a drug-fueled blackout was later ordered to pay more than $1,000 in restitution. 

Donald Robert Hamilton, 61, was initially brought up on felony counts of criminal mischief and criminal possession of dangerous drugs following his March 15, 2024 run-in with Columbia Falls Police officers. Though he maintained his innocence at his arraignment in Flathead County District Court, Hamilton took a deal with prosecutors in August of that year that saw him plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor charges.  

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