Fort Defiance Man Sentenced to 63 Months for Violent Assault

     PHOENIX – Today, Ryan Haskie, 29, of Fort Defiance, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt to a total of 63 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release.  Haskie had previously pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury and admitted to violating his terms of supervised release in a previous case.

     In October 2015, Haskie, a member of the Navajo Nation, violently assaulted an elderly man, also a member of the Navajo Nation, in the Fort Defiance community.

     The investigation in this case was conducted by the Navajo Nation Department of Public Safety.  The prosecution was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Samuels, District of Arizona, Phoenix.

CASE NUMBER:           CR-15-8243-PCT-PGR-1 and CR-12-8178-PGR-2

RELEASE NUMBER:    2016-063_Haskie

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