A Polson man was sentenced in district court in Polson on Dec. 4 to 10 years in the Montana State Prison with eight years suspended in connection with a bear spray attack.

Izayus Kai Jordan Prewett, 20, pleaded guilty Oct. 16 to felony charges of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted person, failure to register as a violent offender and misdemeanor assault. The plea was entered as part of an agreement that dismissed allegations of a parole violation.

According to court records, on Aug. 9, Polson Police officers responded to a report that three people were hit with bear spray at Sacajawea Park.

The three victims had noticed Prewett and another person in a green Subaru parked in a handicap-parking space. One of them recognized Prewett as someone who had allegedly assaulted a family member on an earlier date.

When they walked by, words were exchanged and Prewett allegedly threatened to fight them. Instead, he allegedly pulled out a can of bear spray and deployed it at all three of them, hitting two, and fled. The two who were hit with spray had to be treated at a hospital for skin and eye irritation.

One of them told police that he could see a firearm in Prewett’s waistband, according to court documents.

Authorities located Prewett at a later time and arrested him. A search of the green Subaru turned up a 9 mm handgun, a magazine containing 11 rounds of ammunition, and one can of bear spray.

At Prewett's sentencing, Judge John A. Mercer gave him credit for having already served 117 days in jail and ordered him to forfeit the handgun and magazine.

Prewett was sentenced in 2024 in district court in Polson by Flathead County Judge Amy Eddy to six years with the Montana Department of Corrections on each of three counts of assault with a weapon. Those sentences ran concurrently to each other.