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News & Current Events Apr 10, 2026 at 1:02 PM

Judge rejects plea agreement in case of missing Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay

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Judge rejects plea agreement in case of missing Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay
AP News
Judge rejects plea agreement in case of missing Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay
A federal judge in Phoenix has rejected a plea agreement that would have allowed a man who acknowledged beating a Navajo elder and leaving her for dead to avoid more prison time.

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jaxsurge 2 days ago +67
Case is fucked, thanks FBI. Family simply wants the body back, that’s what this is about. They’ve accepted the investigatory fuckup and literally have nothing to lose. This is only about wins and losses to the prosecution now. They wanted an easy win. Family and judge said “Nope.”
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Tapprunner 1 day ago +12
The FBI has some of the dumbest motherfuckers in the country working there
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funtimes-forall 2 days ago +67
The agreement was release with 3 years time already served for her murder. Judge was right. I guess the prosecutor couldn't be bothered for an indigenous woman.
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LarsAlereon 2 days ago +40
Read the article, it's the FBI you should be upset with here. The FBI illegally coerced the defendant into confessing, so the confession and resulting evidence can't be used in court. This means the jury will almost certainly find the defendant not guilty if this goes to trial. A plea bargain is the best chance to at least get something on his criminal record related to responsibility, but the prosecutor can't drive a hard bargain or he'll just take it to trial.
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Tapprunner 1 day ago +10
God damn the FBI is incompetent
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Ok_Package_3333 2 days ago -35
I heard she was gay also..
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tractiontiresadvised 1 day ago +7
The name is derived from a [Navajo kinship term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begay). American missionaries and US government agents assumed that anything after somebody's personal name was a last name or family name, so it ended up becoming a surname once the Navajos' names were written down in American records.
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