ALBUQUERQUE – Ellis Arkie Sago, 23, an enrolled member of
the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., pled guilty this
afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to assaulting a federal
officer.
The BIA arrested Sago on Feb. 2018, on a criminal complaint
charging him with assaulting a federal officer.
According to the criminal complaint, Sago was arrested on tribal charges
after he assaulted a BIA officer. Sago
committed the assault on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in Otero
County, N.M., on Sept. 9, 2017, by kicking the officer in the legs while the
officer was arresting Sago.
Sago subsequently was indicted on April 18, 2018, and was
charged with assaulting a federal officer in Otero County on Sept. 9, 2017.
During today’s proceedings, Sago pled guilty to the
indictment and admitted that on Sept. 9, 2017, he assaulted a BIA officer by
kicking the officer in the legs. At
sentencing, Sago faces a maximum penalty of eight years in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has yet to be scheduled.
This case was investigated by the Las Cruces office of the
FBI and the Mescalero Agency of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and is
being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron O. Jordan of the U.S.
Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office.
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