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Man could avoid more prison time with guilty plea in Navajo woman’s disappearance
Tolth admitted assaulting Begay and selling her stolen truck for drugs and money; he may avoid more prison time if the plea deal is accepted by the court.
- On Thursday, Preston Henry Tolth pleaded guilty to robbery in connection with the 2021 disappearance of Ella Mae Begay before a federal judge in Phoenix, with a sentencing scheduled for later this year.
- From Sweetwater on the Navajo Nation, Begay's disappearance has left her family and community grieving, as she has never been found.
- Tolth, who has been in custody since 2023, admitted to punching Begay and selling her Ford F-150 for money and drugs in the plea agreement.
- Amid family grief, Gerald Begay called on authorities to find his mother's remains and called the plea deal a `slap on the wrist` while listening from Denver on Thursday.
- There have been marches, listening sessions and congressional hearings in recent years, and federal authorities have assigned more investigators and prosecutors to field offices.
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Man could avoid more prison time with guilty plea in Navajo woman’s disappearance
EDGEWOOD, N.M. (AP) — A man charged in connection to the 2021 disappearance of a Navajo woman pleaded guilty Thursday to robbery, marking the latest turn in a case that been emblematic of the epidemic of killings and disappearances in Native American communities.
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