Crime Briefs

Stabbing leads to 18 months in prison

A member of the Navajo Nation has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in connection with a stabbing in Shiprock last December.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 25-year-old Lukacema Gillie Yazzie was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque Wednesday to three years of supervised release. Yazzie was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and $130 to the victim of his assault.

Yazzie has been in federal custody since his arrest on Dec. 2010. He pleaded guilty on June 13 to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon and admitted as part of a plea agreement to stabbing a member of the Mescalero Apache tribe in Shiprock on Dec. 8, 2010.

Drunk driver causes fatal crash

A Gallup man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for driving drunk and causing a crash that killed an 87-year-old woman. Before sentencing Wednesday in Albuquerque, 30-year-old Anslem Lewis apologized to the family of Rose Collier.

Lewis said his biggest fear is not jail, it’s living each day knowing he has taken away someone special.

Lewis’ family also had the chance to speak before his sentencing.

His mother, Roberta Avery, apologized to the Collier family.
Judge Ross Sanchez sentenced Lewis to serve the maximum prison sentence for driving drunk and killing Rose Collier last year on Interstate 40.