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Deal reached for Packers Roost cop impersonator

Hungry Horse News | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 4 months AGO
by Hungry Horse News
| January 10, 2015 8:25 AM

The Flathead County Attorney’s Office gave deferred prosecution agreements to two Columbia Falls men involved in a strange altercation at the Packers Roost parking lot in Coram in 2013.

According to court records, Flathead County sheriff’s deputies responded to Packers Roost for a report of someone pointing a gun at people in a vehicle following an altercation inside the saloon.

The victims reported they were trying to leave in their vehicle when Robert Konya III, 25, approached the driver’s-side window and identified himself as a police officer. When asked to show his identification, he reportedly flashed his wallet and put it away.

Konya’s accomplice, Skylar Nelson, 29, of Columbia Falls, allegedly approached the passenger’s-side window and pointed a pistol at the people in the vehicle. The victims then drove away, but Nelson was reportedly still holding the pistol in his hand as they passed him.

The deputies located Nelson and Konya and allegedly found a black BB gun in plain view on the passenger’s-side floorboard in Konya’s vehicle. When the deputies interviewed Konya, he allegedly said he was not a police officer but had tried to become one.

The deferred prosecution agreements were made in February 2014. Nelson got a three-year deferment, and Konya got a four-year deferment.

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