Butte, MT: Montana man held on $1M bail

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BUTTE, Mont. -- A 34-year-old Thompson Falls man has waived extradition to Washington state to face charges that he killed his common-law wife last July on Interstate 82.

Stephen Harwood waived extradition Tuesday during a hearing before District Judge Brad Newman in Butte, who set Harwood's bail at $1 million.

Harwood is accused of shooting Sheryl Huntley in the head. He told investigators that a hitchhiker they had picked up at a rest stop shot Huntley and shot him in the hand before running off.

Harwood was arrested Monday in Butte where he had been at a court-ordered drug treatment program on a misdemeanor intimidation charge. Investigators in Yakima, Wash., say DNA tests on a gun found near the rest stop during a separate investigation found that blood from inside the gun barrel matched DNA recovered from the car Harwood and Huntley were in.