Trial set in gun incident

SANDPOINT — A Sandpoint man accused of threatening his girlfriend with a gun during a domestic dispute last fall is pleading innocent.

Ian James Freir is scheduled to be tried on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in March, according to 1st District Court documents.

Freir, 24, was also charged with domestic battery, false imprisonment, unlawful entry and destruction of telecommunications device in connection with the Nov. 23, 2009, incident at a Sandpoint residence.

Freir denied brandishing a firearm during the dispute, a police report said.

Freir was a witness to the fatal shooting of his brother Eli Holt on Nov. 27, 2008, in Sagle. James Matthew Anderson was convicted of second-degree murder for killing Holt and is scheduled to be sentenced later this month in that case.