Friday, 13 November 2020 07:10
Staff Reports
ALBUQUERQUE — John Youngboy Lodgepole, 21, of Fruitland, N.M., an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty in federal court Nov. 3 to an indictment charging him with voluntary manslaughter. A grand jury indicted Lodgepole on Oct. 9, 2019.
According to his plea agreement, Lodgepole acknowledged that on Aug. 1, 2019, he and the victim, identified in court records as Jane Doe, were drinking and that he became angry when she started calling him names and provoking him. He threw the victim to the ground, kicked her in the head multiple times, and punched her about 10 times in the face and head. Lodgepole then used a cinder block to smash the back of the victim’s head. Seeing...