ALBUQUERQUE - Stanislaus Venego III, 34, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced yesterday morning (Sept. 19, 2019) in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 137 months of imprisonment for his conviction on a voluntary manslaughter charge. Venego will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
On March 11, 2019, Venego pled guilty to an indictment charging him with voluntary manslaughter. In his plea agreement, Venego admitted that on April 28, 2018, he punched and kicked the victim multiple times upon a sudden quarrel and in the heat of passion, and that the victim died as the result of the injuries he sustained. The incident occurred on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in Otero County, N.M.
The case was investigated by the Mescalero Agency of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron O. Jordan of the U.S. Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
