POCATELLO – Ruben Wounded Head III, 19, of Chubbuck,
pleaded guilty today to two counts of involuntary manslaughter resulting from a
drunk driving crash, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Wounded
Head was indicted in March 2016 by a federal grand jury in Pocatello.
According
to the plea agreement, on November 13, 2015, Wounded Head drove with friends to
buy alcohol. He and his friends left the store with two bottles of Bacardi rum
and went to an area on the Fort Hall reservation known as Ferry Butte. There,
Wounded Head drank one bottle of rum. Wounded Head then drove his friends back
to a residence on the reservation and then proceeded to drive home. At
approximately 2:50 a.m., at the intersection of Hawthorne Road and Cemetery
Road, Wounded Head’s 2005 Chevrolet Avalanche crossed the centerline and
crashed head-on into a Chevrolet Tahoe, killing both occupants of the Tahoe.
Wounded Head’s Avalanche was traveling between 59 to 61 miles per hour at the
time of crash. The posted speed limit in the area is 45 miles per hour.
The
charge of involuntary manslaughter is punishable by up to eight years in
prison, a maximum fine of $250,000 and up to three years of supervised release.
Sentencing
will be August 2, 2017, before Chief U.S. District B. Lynn Winmill at the
federal courthouse in Pocatello.
The
case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Fort Hall
Tribal Police.
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