ALBUQUERQUE – Nathan Little, 31, an enrolled member of the
Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Ruidoso, N.M., pled guilty on July 20,
2018, in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer.
The BIA arrested Little on April 27, 2018, on a criminal
complaint charging him with assaulting a federal officer in Nov. 2017. According to the criminal complaint, Little
assaulted a BIA officer on Nov. 18, 2017, punching him in the face repeatedly
while he was being booked into custody at the Lincoln County Detention Center
in Lincoln County, N.M., following a traffic stop that revealed that Little had
outstanding warrants.
On July 20, 2018, Little pled guilty to a felony information
charging him with assault on a federal officer.
In entering the guilty plea, Little admitted assaulting a BIA officer on
Nov. 18, 2017, by punching him in the face.
Little has been in federal custody since his arrest on the
criminal complaint and will remain detained pending his sentencing hearing, which
has yet to be scheduled. At sentencing,
Little 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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