ALBUQUERQUE—This morning in federal
court in Albuquerque, Waylon Murphy, 23, an enrolled member of the Navajo
Nation who resides in Yah-ta-hey, New Mexico, was sentenced to a two-year term
of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his
arson conviction. Murphy also was ordered to pay $62,375 in restitution to the
victim.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales said
that Murphy was charged with torching a neighbor’s house on September 4, 2011,
on the Navajo Indian Reservation in McKinley County, New Mexico. Murphy was
indicted on an arson charge on November 11, 2011, and entered a guilty plea to
the indictment on May 10, 2012.
In his plea agreement, Murphy admitted
that he maliciously set fire to his neighbor’s home on September 4, 2011.
Murphy, who was intoxicated, entered his neighbor’s home with the intention of
stealing alcohol. Murphy also admitted that, after finding no alcohol in his
neighbor’s home, he stole various items of the neighbor’s personal property and
set her home on fire.
Murphy was remanded into the custody of
the U.S. Marshals Service to begin serving his prison sentence at the
conclusion of his sentencing hearing.
The case was investigated by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the Crownpoint Division of the Navajo Nation
Department of Public Safety and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack
E. Burkhead.
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