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Navajo man gets 36 years behind bars

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Convicted on seven counts of child sex abuse

PHOENIX, Ariz. -  The U. S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, announced Sept. 17 that Bo Lane, 36, of Coppermine, Ariz., has been sentenced to 432 months in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow, for seven counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, each count to run concurrently. Lane was found guilty of those counts June 14 by a federal jury.

The evidence at trial showed that between 2013 and 2017, Lane sexually abused two minor victims.  The abuse started when the victims were six years old and took place on the Navajo Indian Reservation.  Both Lane and the victims are members of the Navajo Nation.

The investigation in this case was conducted by the FBI and the Navajo Nation Police Department. The prosecution was handled by Christina J. Reid-Moore and Dimitra H. Sampson, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, District of Arizona, Phoenix.