A Polson woman with two separate convictions received her sentence in Polson District Court Oct. 14.

Talyn Shiloh Bird, 25, entered a plea of guilty Aug. 12 to felony charges of assault with a weapon and criminal mischief. In a separate case, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor partner or family member assault (PFMA).

Judge Molly Owen sentenced Bird to the Montana Department of Corrections for three years with all that time suspended for assault with a weapon. Bird also was given six months in jail, all suspended, for criminal mischief.

She was also given a one-year suspended jail sentence for misdemeanor PFMA, to run consecutive to the three-year term.

According to court records, in the first case, on July 7, 2025, Polson Police responded to a report that a person hit another person and a car with a baseball bat at Sacajawea Park. 

The victim told the responding officer that Bird struck her son’s car with a bat, shattering the windshield. Then Bird hit her on her arm with the bat multiple times. A witness had video of the alleged assault on a mobile phone.

The charge of PFMA stems from an incident at Cherry Hill Apartments in Polson Dec. 10, 2025, when Bird fought with her mother and sister.

Judge Owen gave Bird credit for having already served 308 days in jail.