Red Lake Man Sentenced to 150 Months for Assaulting a Woman

MINNEAPOLIS—Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 26-year-old Red Lake man was sentenced for a felony assault near the Redby Post Office on April 29, 2010. United States District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced Joseph Joshua Jackson to 150 months in prison on one count of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of discharging a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence. Jackson was indicted on June 7, 2010, and pleaded guilty on January 20, 2011.

In his plea agreement, Jackson admitted that on April 29, he assaulted a woman by kicking her in the head and then shooting her in the abdomen. According to a law enforcement affidavit filed in the case, Red Lake tribal police responded to a reported shooting and found the victim outside the Redby Post Office. The victim sustained injuries to the head as well as a gunshot wound to her right torso. Jackson was arrested on May 3, 2010, and remains in custody.

This case was the result of an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Red Lake Tribal Police Department, and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Karen B. Schommer and Clifford B. Wardlaw.

Because the Red Lake Indian Reservation is a federal jurisdiction reservation, some of the crimes that occur there are investigated by the FBI in conjunction with the Red Lake Tribal Police Department. Those cases are prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.