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.
A chicken head? She was only a little mad.
And they wonder why men are less inclined to get married these days.
Yeah thats what I thought of...
The boyfriend didnt own a champion race horse but he does have fighting cocks...
I assume this is some of that cultural enrichment we hear so much about.
From the title I at first suspected Santeria or some other attempt at an occult curse, but it turns out she’s just a crazy drunk. Time to look for a new girlfriend, I’d say.
Herbert von Karajan.
Could have been worse.....2 oversize thighs.....
I guess she didn’t own a horse.
‘Herbert von Karajan’
I must be missing the reference
When I hear that name I think about The Planets by Hoist, and Berlin philharmonic orchestra.
And that's the point you realize that her psychopathy you've been putting up with, overtakes the really wild sex you've been enjoying.
He found the horse’s head. Look at the picture.
I was thinking he had laying chickens that sometimes become like pets. Very wise to move out that night.
Be interesting to see her mug shot.
The larger issue is the damage to car and other property.
“The Godfather” on a budget
Threatening jail because she won’t change her lifestyle.
Population mind control.
Churchies also intimidated.
a severed chicken head?
Sounds like a Chinese dim sum lunch I was served in Hong Kong a few years ago.
Humans are weird.
And why is she not being prosecuted for destruction of property, terrorist threats and so forth?
Sounds like a Chinese dim sum lunch...
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Hilarious you say that... I was just looking for a Chinese sounding name in the story. Here’s a recipe for you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozxtZ0dStW8
Poor chickens!
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