Hearing delayed in stabbing case

SANDPOINT — A preliminary hearing is being rescheduled again for a Sandpoint man implicated in a stabbing and beating in Ponderay earlier this year.

Timothy “Bear” Grant Larson’s hearing was set for Wednesday, April 30, but it’s being moved to June because he is undergoing substance abuse treatment in southern Idaho.

The hearing to determine if Larson should be ordered to stand trial on a felony battery charge has been reset for June, court records indicate.

Larson, 29, was charged following a Feb. 29 attack in which a 48-year-old man was knifed and beaten during a confrontation on Cedar Street. The victim survived being pummeled and stabbed in the abdomen.

Larson was initially accused of joining the alleged attack after it began and a second suspect, Adam Rew Carash, was accused of wielding the knife. Witnesses, however, told authorities Larson was the one who stabbed the victim.

A felony battery charge against Carash, a 27-year-old Sandpoint resident, was reduced to a misdemeanor and he is scheduled to be sentenced next month.

A motive for the attack was not disclosed in court documents and Bonner County Prosecutor Phil Robinson has said it’s not clear what precipitated the confrontation.