A man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering an 11-year-old Navajo Nation girl in 2016 was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, according to multiple media reports.
The case drew national attention to the Amber Alert laws on American Indian reservations.
Tom Begaye Jr., 28, also a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced Friday for the crimes against 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike by U.S. District Judge William P. Johnson in the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to the Associated Press, NBC News and the Albuquerque Journal.
Federal officials arrested Begaye last...
The case drew national attention to the Amber Alert laws on American Indian reservations.
Tom Begaye Jr., 28, also a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced Friday for the crimes against 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike by U.S. District Judge William P. Johnson in the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to the Associated Press, NBC News and the Albuquerque Journal.
Federal officials arrested Begaye last...
- 10/23/2017
- by Madison Rossi
- PEOPLE.com
A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the abduction and murder of an 11-year-old girl from the Navajo Nation after her body was found near the famed Shiprock monument in New Mexico, People confirms. Federal officials arrested Tom Begaye, of Waterflow, on Tuesday, just hours after Ashlynne Mike's body was found a few miles south of the famed monument, FBI Albuquerque spokesperson Frank Fisher tells People. Fisher says no further information will be released until after Begaye appears in court on Wednesday. The arrest followed an intense search for Ashlynne after she and her 9-year-old brother went missing...
- 5/4/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the abduction and murder of an 11-year-old girl from the Navajo Nation after her body was found near the famed Shiprock monument in New Mexico, People confirms. Federal officials arrested Tom Begaye, of Waterflow, on Tuesday, just hours after Ashlynne Mike's body was found a few miles south of the famed monument, FBI Albuquerque spokesperson Frank Fisher tells People. Fisher says no further information will be released until after Begaye appears in court on Wednesday. The arrest followed an intense search for Ashlynne after she and her 9-year-old brother went missing...
- 5/4/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
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