ALBUQUERQUE—Elvan Hovel, 42, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, New Mexico, pleaded guilty today to a voluntarily manslaughter charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Hovel was arrested in August 2013, based on a criminal complaint charging him with second-degree murder and was subsequently charged in an indictment in September 2013 with voluntary manslaughter. According to court filings, on July 22, 2012, Hovel pushed a 48-year-old Navajo woman who was intoxicated into an irrigation canal, where the victim drowned.
In his plea agreement, Hovel admitted killing the victim on July 22, 2012, in a location within the Navajo Indian Reservation. Hovel pushed the victim into an irrigation canal at a time when the two were intoxicated and arguing. Hovel did not make any effort to rescue the victim as he watched her float away in the canal and go under.
Under the terms of the plea agreement, Hovel will be sentenced to five years in federal prison, followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. He remains in custody pending his sentencing hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.
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Sells Man Sentenced to More Than Six Years in Prison for Voluntary Manslaughter
TUCSON, AZ—Alrick Michael Escalante, 21, of Sells, Arizona, and a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years prison on Monday, November 18, 2013, following a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter, by U.S. District Judge David C. Bury. Escalante pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter on May 16, 2013.
As part of the plea agreement, Escalante admitted that in the early morning hours of July 24, 2011, in Sells, Arizona, on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation, he stabbed the 22-year-old victim, who died from a single stab wound.
The investigation in this case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Tohono O’odham Nation Police Department. The prosecution was handled by Raquel Arellano, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Arizona, Tucson.
As part of the plea agreement, Escalante admitted that in the early morning hours of July 24, 2011, in Sells, Arizona, on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation, he stabbed the 22-year-old victim, who died from a single stab wound.
The investigation in this case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Tohono O’odham Nation Police Department. The prosecution was handled by Raquel Arellano, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Arizona, Tucson.
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