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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Savannah Peters and Jacques Billeaud

Suspect enters new guilty plea in the case of missing Navajo grandmother Ella Mae Begay

Missing Indigenous Plea Agreement - (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A man charged in the disappearance of a Navajo grandmother whose case has highlighted the crisis of violence against Native Americans pleaded guilty Thursday to robbery as part of a second agreement reached with prosecutors.

Preston Henry Tolth, 26, could be sentenced to a maximum of five years in federal prison, with credit for three years already served, under the conditions of the proposed agreement.

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