A man from Lower Brule, South Dakota was sentenced to more than 7 years in federal prison on July 6, 2026, after being convicted of using his vehicle to assault a Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer, U.S. Attorney Ron Parsons announced.
U.S. District Judge Eric C. Schulte imposed the sentence. The defendant faced three counts tied to the incident: assaulting a federal officer, resisting a federal officer, and impeding a federal officer, according to Parsons's office.
Lower Brule is a community in South Dakota. The victim was an officer with the Bureau of Indian Affairs police.
Parsons's office stated that the defendant deliberately drove his vehicle into the officer, forming the basis of the assault conviction. The resisting and impeding charges arose from the same encounter, per the announcement from Parsons.
Judge Schulte's sentence places the defendant in federal custody for a term surpassing 7 years as a result of the vehicle-based attack on the law enforcement officer.