Tag: BIA

Tynan LeShawn Addison, Child Sex Abuse, Wyoming 2025
⏱ 2 min read In a disturbing case of child sex abuse, 19-year-old Tynan LeShawn Addison of Ethete, Wyoming, was sentenced to 81 months in prison for sexually assaulting a minor in September 2025. The victim’s mother took them to a clinic, where examiners found injuries consistent with a sexual assault. The FBI investigated the…

Charles Jesse Sanchez, Meth Trafficking, Montana 2023
⏱ 2 min read Charles Jesse Sanchez, a 61-year-old Billings man, has pleaded guilty to trafficking methamphetamine on the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservations. Sanchez, also known as ‘Chuck’, was caught by the FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) on June 19, 2023, after a confidential source purchased four ounces of meth from…

Ricky Crawford Birdinground, Meth Trafficking, Montana 2026
⏱ 2 min read Ricky Crawford Birdinground, a 47-year-old Garryowen man, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for meth trafficking after a car crash on Highway 212 near Crow Agency, Montana, in a case that began when Birdinground crashed his vehicle into a guardrail and was found with 34 grams of meth. Birdinground pleaded…

Shauntel Shangreaux, Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Trafficking, South Dakota 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Pine Ridge woman is going down for 19 years after running a major fentanyl and methamphetamine operation in Rapid City and the Pine Ridge Reservation. Shauntel Shangreaux, 32, was sentenced on April 6, 2026, for her role in distributing multiple ounces of fentanyl and multiple pounds of methamphetamine throughout Rapid…

Randall Allen Flatlip, Possession of Child Pornography, Montana 2022
⏱ 2 min read A 36-year-old Hardin, Montana man has been caught with a stash of child pornography. Randall Allen Flatlip admitted in court to possessing the illicit content, which includes videos and images of children being exploited. The probe began when the government received a tip that someone had uploaded a video of child…
