A Parshall woman has been sentenced to serve 48 days after pleading guilty to felony assault charges stemming from an incident at the emergency room of a Minot hospital in March 2024.

Mardee Cheyenne Heart, 22, Parshall, entered a change of plea in North Central District Court on Friday, pleading guilty to one count of attempted aggravated assault on a peace officer, a Class B felony; and simple assault-fire or emergency personnel, a Class C felony.

According to court documents, Minot Police responded to the hospital emergency room in the early morning on March 25, 2024, for a report of a female patient fighting a corrections officer. The patient was identified as Heart, who was an inmate at the Ward County Jail. The corrections officer relayed that Heart had been brought to the ER for treatment of alleged seizures.

Heart requested to use the bathroom after refusing to use a bedpan, and told the victim she wouldn’t try to run or fight. The corrections officer escorted Heart to the bathroom and took one of her hands out of handcuffs to facilitate her using the bathroom.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Heart grabbed an IV stand in the bathroom and began striking the correctional officer with it, pushed her against a wall and grabbed her by her hair. ER nurses intervened and assisted the officer with handcuffed Heart. Heart then lunged at an ER doctor and struck his chest with her head before she became compliant.

Judge Todd Cresap sentenced Heart to a concurrent sentence of 10 years for the B felony and 5 years for the B felony, to first serve 48 days with credit for 48 days served. This sentence was also concurrent with prior dispositions from two other cases.

Heart was ordered to complete three years of supervised probation, an anger management course and a chemical dependency evaluation.

She was assessed $775 in court fines and fees.