Woman avoids prison in shooting

A 47-year old Moyie Springs woman was spared possible prison time after being charged with shooting her husband in the leg with a .22-caliber rifle Aug. 14.

Casty M. Cain-Holquin was charged with felony aggravated battery by the Boundary County Sheriffs Office after a deputy responded to Boundary Community Hospital after a report was made that a man was being treated for a gunshot wound at about 11:01 p.m.

The victim, Jeremie C. Stanley, told the deputy his wife was angry at him for going out, and said he'd returned home to their Solomon Lake Road residence and was preparing something to eat when she began yelling at him, went out of the kitchen and returned with the rifle, pointed it at his chest and told him to get out before firing “a couple” of shots, with the last one hitting him in the left shin.

In her statement, she alleged suffering ongoing abuse during the two years they'd been married, particularly when he was allegedly drinking or using marijuana.

In a plea agreement, the felony charge was reduced to a misdemeanor count of domestic violence without traumatic injury

 She was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail, with 150 days suspended, .

Cain-Holquin also was fined $322.50 and $377.50 in court costs and placed on two years probation. She was also ordered to have no contact with her husband.