Gary John Bedoni, Voluntary Manslaughter, New Mexico 2016

A Navajo man has been sentenced to 144 months in prison for voluntary manslaughter in New Mexico.

Gary John Bedoni, 60, of Fruitland, N.M., was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 144 months in prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction.

Bedoni will be on supervised release for three years following his prison sentence.

The crime occurred on January 31, 2016, on the Navajo Indian Reservation in San Juan County, N.M., where Bedoni caused the victim to suffer a fractured neck, spinal cord trauma, bruising to her chest and arms, and the victim was unable to move her arms or legs.

Bedoni was arrested on February 10, 2016, on a criminal complaint charging him with assaulting a woman resulting in serious bodily injury.

He was subsequently indicted on March 8, 2016, and charged with second degree murder of the victim in San Juan County.

On July 21, 2016, Bedoni entered a guilty plea to a felony information charging him with voluntary manslaughter.

Bedoni acknowledged that on the night of January 31, 2016, he pushed the victim down some steps causing her to sustain broken vertebrae and spinal cord trauma.

Bedoni was investigated by the Farmington office of the FBI and the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys David Adams and Nicholas Marshall prosecuted the case as part of the Tribal Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (Tribal SAUSA) Pilot Project in the District of New Mexico.

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