PHOENIX, Ariz. –
On November 12, 2019, Nathaniel Willie Cortez, 39, of White Cone, Arizona, was
sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 24 months in prison followed
by three years of supervised release.
Cortez had previously pleaded guilty to one count of domestic assault by
strangling or suffocation.
Cortez admitted
that he strangled the victim, with whom he was in a romantic relationship, in
2018. The assault took place on the
Navajo Nation Indian Reservation, where Cortez and the victim are tribal
members.
The investigation
in this case was conducted by the FBI and the Navajo Nation Department of
Criminal Investigations. The prosecution
was handled by Krista Wood and Amy Chang, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, District of
Arizona, Phoenix.
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