
Associated Press - October 4, 2009 5:45 PM ET
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A 44-year-old Mission man will serve more than three years in custody for attacking a Rosebud man with an ax.
Rodney Thin Elk pleaded guilty in federal court to assault with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced to 41 months of incarceration.
According to the indictment, he assaulted Donald Young Bear in April 2008 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
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