Eagle Butte Man Sentenced for False Statement

United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of False Statement was sentenced on December 11, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.

Paul Stands For, age 24, was sentenced to 12 days in federal prison, 2 years of supervised release, and a special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund in the amount of $100.

Stands For was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 16, 2019.  He pled guilty on September 17, 2019.

The conviction stemmed from an incident on April 18, 2019, where Stands For willfully and knowingly made a materially false statement to a Task Force Officer with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Northern Plains Safe Trails Drug Enforcement Task Force, by stating that a stolen handgun was his, when he in fact knew this statement was false.  Stands For lied in order to obstruct an investigation into whether a convicted felon unlawfully possessed the stolen handgun.   

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.  The Department of Justice reinvigorated PSN in 2017 as part of its renewed focus on targeting violent criminals, directing all U.S. Attorney’s Offices to work in partnership with federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and local communities to develop effective, locally-based strategies to reduce violent crime.

This case was investigated by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement Services and the Northern Plains Safe Trails Drug Enforcement Task Force.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron J. Cook prosecuted the case.

Stands For was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.