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Man charged in 2024 dispute over camper receives suspended jail sentences

by DERRICK PERKINS
Daily Inter Lake | January 25, 2026 12:00 AM

A man accused of injuring another person with a piece of wood during a dispute in Hungry Horse over a camper in 2024 later received a pair of suspended sentences.

Prosecutors brought Donald Lester Church, 42, up on a felony count of assault with a weapon and a misdemeanor count of criminal mischief in Flathead County District Court following the Oct. 29, 2024, confrontation on Hungry Horse Boulevard. Though he maintained his innocence at his arraignment in November of that year, Church took a plea deal in May 2025.

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