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Related: About this forumSaginaw man convicted of assault, imprisonment of Tribal member
https://www.themorningsun.com/2025/07/02/saginaw-man-convicted-of-assault-imprisonment-of-tribal-member/A Saginaw man who was convicted by a federal jury for the unlawful imprisonment and other crimes against a Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribal member in Isabella County has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
United States District Judge Linda Parker of the Michigan Eastern District in Detroit last week sentenced Michael Lee Johnson, 45, after he was convicted by a federal jury in November.
Jurors convicted Johnson of strangulation of an intimate or dating partner, suffocation of an intimate or dating partner, interstate domestic violence and six counts of witness tampering, according to U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr., who was joined in the announcement last week by Special Agent in Charge Cheyvoryea Gibson of the FBI in Detroit.
Commit a crime on Treaty Land and it can become a Federal Crime and you go to Federal Prison. That can mean no parole, no early release period. While Federal Prisons are much better than State prisons, you will serve a much longer time.
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Saginaw man convicted of assault, imprisonment of Tribal member (Original Post)
multigraincracker
Jul 3
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marble falls
(67,046 posts)1. When I was younger fellow, I had a customer walk acheck at Wauweap Resort on the Navaho reservation on ...
... on Lake Powell. Because it was Friday night on Memorial weekend, and that the closest town was about 140 miles away, and that he wasn't in Page, he was still on Wauweap. So the next morning I found a ranger and walked the beach. Found hi in 15 minutes. Because he defrauded an innkeeper on Federal lands, it was a felony, so he couldn't be arraigned in Page, so he got transported to Flagstaff. Because it was Memorial weekend, he didn't get arraigned until Tuesday and bailed out. By the time he got back to Wauweap, his jeep had been stripped down to the pan and left upside down in the parking lot after stripping out the undercarriage.
Most expensive steak dinner he ever ate.
multigraincracker
(36,000 posts)2. Yep, even traffic and misdemeanors, if issued by Tribal Police, require you to go to Trial Court with a Tribal judge.
I'd highly recommend a Tribal member lawyer.