SANDPOINT — Another man has been implicated in a plot to upend a battery case pending against a Bonner County man awaiting trial for vehicular manslaughter.

Russell Hagerty Spade was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of aiding and abetting Peter Franklin Goullette’s efforts to violate a court’s no-contact order that prohibits him from communicating with his girlfriend, whom Goullette is accused of pushing to the ground during a home-invasion confrontation on Sagle Road on March 18.

Spade made an initial appearance in Bonner County Magistrate Court on Thursday via video link with the county jail. Judge Tera Harden set bond at $10,000 and appointed a public defender to represent him.

Spade, 27, conducted a video visit with Goullette at the Bonner County Jail on March 26. Goullette allegedly dictated a poem he wrote, which was recorded by Spade’s phone and then sent to Goullette’s girlfriend electronically, according to a probable cause affidavit. The poem professed Goullette’s love for the woman and included a marriage proposal, the affidavit said.

Spade allegedly read Goullette the woman’s response after sending the message, court documents indicate.

The contact between Spade and Goullette was recorded via the jail’s Telmate telecommunications system, according to court documents.

Spade is the second person to be charged with aiding and abetting the no-contact order violation in Goullette’s case. Fellow inmate Steven Ronald Ennis Jr. is accused of using Telmate to contact Goullette’s girlfriend on March 21 and counseling her to deny the battery allegation in an attempt to sabotage his prosecution. Ennis, who’s awaiting trial on a lewd conduct charge, is also charged with witness tampering.

Goullette, 24, is charged with aggravated battery and assault for allegedly bursting into a Sagle man’s home and attacking one man with a baseball bat and threatening another.

He’s also accused of witness tampering for threatening witnesses during the incident. In addition, Goulette is accused of violating the no-contact order.

The alleged attack and steady flow of charges came as Goullette was awaiting trial for accidentally killing one woman and seriously injuring another with his pickup truck on McGhee Road in June 2016. Katherine K. Stelzer, a 61-year-old from Mead, Wash., was killed and Zualita Updike was injured when Goullette crashed into them as they walked along the road.

Keith Kinnaird can be reached by email at kkinnaird@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow him on Twitter @KeithDailyBee.