Cannonball Woman Pleads Guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter
| U.S. Attorney’s Office April 24, 2012 |
BISMARCK—U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 24, 2012, Ivanna Red Bow, 27, of Cannonball, North Dakota, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of voluntary manslaughter.
On December 30, 2010, Red Bow assaulted Loren Uses Arrow with a knife during a verbal and physical argument. Red Bow inflicted a stab wound to Uses Arrow’s upper left chest area, causing Uses Arrow’s death.
The charge of voluntary manslaughter carries a statutory maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Indian Affairs-Standing Rock Agency.
Sentencing for Red Bow has been scheduled for July 30, 2012, in U.S. District Court in Bismarck, North Dakota at 9:30 a.m.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme is prosecuting the case.