A Kalispell man with a violent previous is headed to the Montana State Jail after being sentenced just lately in district courtroom.
Timothy Shawn McCarroll, 45, acquired a complete of 17 years, with 5 suspended, for tampering with a witness and a revocation on a earlier sentence from a 2013 crime. The sentences will probably be served concurrently.
Flathead County District Courtroom Choose Dan Wilson delivered the sentences throughout a Sept. 9 listening to.
McCarroll acquired 10 years, 5 suspended, for a revocation on a 2013 assault case. The 2013 crime concerned McCarroll and one other man hitting and kicking a person. The sufferer suffered a damaged nostril and jaw within the assault, which left him unconscious.
In a case this yr during which McCarroll was accused of three felonies, he acquired seven years in state jail for witness tampering, plus fees of assault with a weapon and strangulation of a associate or member of the family.
McCarroll acquired credit score for 220 days in custody and 18 months for not committing a considerable violation whereas on probation.
In his sentencing order, Choose Wilson stated McCarroll’s imprisonment “serves to extend public security and defend the general public by imposing incarceration for defendant’s violent offense conduct and severe and repeated felony conduct.”
McCarroll was arrested and brought to the Flathead County Detention Middle on Feb. 1, 2021.
In line with charging paperwork, Kalispell Law enforcement officials went to a Two Mile Drive house after a 911 dispatcher acquired a hang-up name. The dispatcher known as again and heard voices, together with one asking “the place did the knife go” and one other saying “I’ll kill you.”
Officers spoke with McCarroll’s sons and a girlfriend of certainly one of them.
An grownup son stated he heard his brother arguing together with his father and when he tried to intervene, McCarroll yelled at him and allegedly choked him. The youthful brother broke it up, with the 2 boys and the girlfriend barricading themselves in a bed room.
They reported that when McCarroll couldn’t enter the bed room, he allegedly plunged a knife by means of the door and stated “I’ll kill you.”
After McCarroll was jailed, he allegedly known as certainly one of his sons and instructed him to “inform the District Legal professional that you just lied” and in addition stated “drop the costs and I received’t go to jail for 10 years.”
McCarroll’s felony file in Flathead County dates to August 2006 when he threatened a girl. He pleaded responsible and acquired a three-year suspended jail sentence.
Then, in 2011, McCarroll was arrested and charged with housebreaking, assault and felony mischief after getting into a girl’s house, grabbing her daughter, after which destroying a number of hundred {dollars}’ value of groceries.
McCarroll entered an Alford plea of responsible to felony endangerment. A plea deal concerned the state not pursuing a revocation of his probation within the 2006 case and a five-year suspended sentence in 2012.
Two years later, McCarroll’s probation was revoked following a 2013 assault and he acquired 5 years in jail.
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