Dakota Access protester sentenced - October 28, 2018

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryOctober 2018

Vol. 23, No.43

Week of October 28, 2018

Dakota Access protester sentenced

Associated Press

The fourth of seven people charged with federal crimes stemming from protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota has been sentenced to a year and four months in prison.

Twenty-two-year-old Dion Ortiz, who is from the San Felipe Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, was indicted with several others in February 2017 for a fire set on a country road bridge in October 2016.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that Ortiz reached a deal with prosecutors under which he pleaded guilty to civil disorder and the government dropped a more serious charge of using fire to commit a federal felony.

Ortiz was given credit for time served and could be released from prison in April. - ASSOCIATED PRESS

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