ALBUQUERQUE — A Crownpoint man, Shiloh Y. McLemore, 36, was sentenced to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his assault conviction in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
McLemore, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was arrested on April 15, 2015, on a criminal complaint charging him with assault with a dangerous weapon.
The complaint alleged that on April 8, 2015, law enforcement officers responded to the campus of the Navajo Technical University (NTU), where McLemore had assaulted and battered a woman and had then barricaded himself inside an apartment on the NTU campus.
When approached by a Navajo man, McLemore took out a handgun, loaded the handgun with a full magazine of bullets, chambered a bullet, and threatened the man.
McLemore was subsequently indicted on May 12, 2015, and charged with assault of a male victim with a dangerous weapon, assault of a female victim with a dangerous weapon, and using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
The indictment alleged that McLemore committed the three crimes on April 8, 2015, on the Navajo Indian Reservation in McKinley County, New Mexico. On Sept. 17, 2015, McLemore pled guilty to the two assault charges.
The case was investigated by the Gallup office of the FBI and the Crownpoint office of the Navajo Nation Department of Public Safety.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Novaline D. Wilson.
The case was brought pursuant to the Tribal Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (Tribal SAUSA) Pilot Project in the District of New Mexico, which is sponsored by the Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women under a grant administered by the Pueblo of Laguna.
The Tribal SAUSA Pilot Project 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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Key Facts
- State: New Mexico
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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