Sentencing comes amid conflict between Gov. Kristi Noem and tribes over Biden border policies, drug trafficking
An El Salvadoran man who carjacked and kidnapped an FBI employee on a South Dakota Indian reservation will spend 35 years in prison.
Judge Karen Schreier signed the judgment and commitment order for Juan Francisco Alvarez-Sorto on Tuesday after handing down the sentence in court on Friday. In addition to the 420-month sentence, Alvarez-Sorto, 25 – who was in the country illegally and had previously been deported – was ordered to serve five years of supervised release and pay more than $4,700 in restitution.
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