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Man sentenced for run-in with tribal police
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2001

A federal court in Montana on Wednesday sentenced and finde a Billings man who assaulted Crow tribal police officers.

Ronald Wallace Hanson, 54, was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $500 for misdemeanor assault. He must also apologize to the Crow Tribe and to an officer he injured.

Hanson's lawyer claimed he was having a Vietnam flashback at the time of the October 2000 incident.

In other federal court action, a 23-yar-old resident of the Crow Reservation at Lodge Grass pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually abuse of minors.

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