Timothy Gregg Enjady, Assault, New Mexico 2023

State: New Mexico
Category: Violent Crime
Source: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/mescalero-apache-man-sentenced-prison-federal-assault-conviction-1" style="color:#cc0000;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">DOJ Press Release ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Â Ã¢â‚¬â€

A brutal assault on a Mescalero Apache woman has landed a local man behind bars. Timothy Gregg Enjady, 54, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his conviction on an assault charge.

Enjady, who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was arrested by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in August 2017, on a criminal complaint charging him with assaulting the woman on June 7, 2017, on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in Otero County, N.M.

According to the complaint, Enjady assaulted the woman by hitting her in the face with his fist, hitting her with an object, and placing his thumb in her eye. The victim suffered facial contusions, head lacerations, and a corneal abrasion as a result of the assault.

Enjady was indicted on January 17, 2018, and was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, an aluminum crutch, with intent to do bodily harm.

On May 1, 2018, Enjady pled guilty to the indictment, admitting that on June 7, 2017, he assaulted the victim by striking her in the face and head with an aluminum crutch.

The case was investigated by the Las Cruces office of the FBI and the Mescalero Agency of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron O. Jordan of the U.S. Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office.

The case was brought pursuant to the Tribal Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (Tribal SAUSA) Pilot Project in the District of New Mexico, which seeks to train tribal prosecutors in federal law, procedure and investigative techniques to increase the likelihood that every viable violent offense against Native women is prosecuted in either federal court or tribal court, or both.

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