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Posted on 02/18/2024 12:18:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 34-year-old Billings woman accused of leaving chicken heads on her then-boyfriend’s bed, trashing his apartment, and vandalizing his car, faces potential jail time over allegations she failed to control her alcoholism.
The woman, Michelle Suzanne Niedge, was put on two years of probation in March 2022 after she pleaded guilty to felony criminal mischief and misdemeanor assault before Sixth District Judge Brenda Gilbert. Gilbert sentenced the woman to 31 days in the county jail and two years of probation.
Niedge also was fined $700 and ordered to pay $2,666.95 restitution to her victim. About five months of a county jail sentence was suspended provided she complete probation. Niedge also was given a chance to avoid a felony conviction.
Since then, a probation officer alleged Niedge tested positive for alcohol on Dec. 19, 2023, which would be a violation of probation. Niedge has a hearing set for 9 a.m. on Feb. 20 before Gilbert, at the City/County Complex in Livingston, to determine whether her probation should be revoked and whether she should be sent to jail and convicted of a felony.
Niedge’s charges stemmed from an investigation that began about 5:19 p.m. on July 9, 2021, when her boyfriend reported he’d returned home about midnight July 8, 2021, to find Niedge had “damaged his car, made a mess of his apartment,” and “left severed chicken heads on his bed,” according to an affidavit filed by the Park County Attorney’s Office.
“They began arguing about the damage to his car and apartment, as well as her drinking habits,” reads the affidavit. “[The boyfriend] stated she had been to treatment for her drinking multiple times but she was intoxicated that evening. [The boyfriend] was only at the home a short time before he left during the verbal argument as he was concerned it would escalate out of control, especially after the damage that was done to his property and the chicken heads left on his bed.”
The boyfriend reported feeling threatened by Niedge’s display and alleged she had pushed him about a month earlier during an argument. He went to a relative’s home for the night and didn’t report the incident right away because he had to work the next morning, according to the affidavit. He alleged she engaged in an act of self-harm days before, which resulted in treatment at a hospital, and that when she would drink, she could become violent, as “it’s like a switch gets flipped when she drinks,” the affidavit states.
A sheriff’s deputy responded to the home about two hours after the boyfriend’s report and observed smashed-up furniture in the yard and a car with its windshield smashed and at least two flat tires. Some of the furniture in the apartment also appeared to have been moved around, and there were chicken feathers throughout the house, according to the affidavit. The officer made contact with Niedge on site.
“Defendant stated that she had ‘a really bad drinking problem’ and she ‘does really crazy stuff when she drinks,’” reads the affidavit. “She stated she ‘trashed the house’ and slashed [her boyfriend’s] tires with a knife and threw a rock through his windshield while he was gone. She stated they had an argument the day before and he told her they were done because of her drinking. Defendant told [the deputy] that she killed two of their chickens that night, pulled the meat off of them, then placed their heads on [her boyfriend’s] pillow ‘to show him how much she was hurting.’”
Niedge was arrested and charged with felony criminal mischief, which related to the damage she was accused of causing, and was punishable by as much as 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. The misdemeanor assault charge was pursued because Niedge “purposely or knowingly caused reasonable apprehension of bodily injury to her boyfriend,” according to a charging document in the case. The misdemeanor carried a maximum penalty of a year in the county jail and a $1,000 fine.
One had to wonder what the cluck she was thinking.
Who is the Einstein boyfriend?
Well its Montana but if they were in TN or some other southern state then yes definitely fighting cocks...
“And why is she not being prosecuted for destruction of property, terrorist threats and so forth?”
Because the prosecutor does not want to waste the prison budget on someone who should be in a mental institute. The prison/industrial complex is about out of money. There is no political will to raise taxes to keep people in prison just to protect the public. We can afford to lose a few citizens who, probably don’t vote anyway, rather than lose an election because we raised taxes to increase the number of prisoners we can keep locked away for safety’s sake.
That was right after he told her “Johnny Fontaine never gets that part!”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-niedge-5bb8271ba
Your judgement needed.
But don’t pay your traffic tickets.......
The key to authentic fried chicken heads is the “Mystery Spice Packet” .18sec. Yummmmmmm-E
And don’t forget the “Water from Mississippi River”
Chicken head is the poor man’s horse for sending a message
When your drinking is causing self destructive behavior and it obvious even to you, it is time to stop.
Take up jogging for the runner’s high.
At least one fewer cock in the house.
Was she wild in bed?
My employer had a sales office in Hong Kong. 15 or so years ago on my first visit there, the office group took me out to dim sum lunch. It was in a huge dining hall.
We sat around a large round table and the various lunch items were brought out in stages which we shared.
One of my local sales assistants told me, as it was my first visit to HK, I was the honored person at lunch. A steamed, pale as a ghost, chicken head (with neck) was brought out and served to me.
I was served many “unusual” foods in China but this one was perhaps the most unusual.
Fixed it.
I think a photo of this nutcase would be very telling.
Say what..?
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