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PORTLAND — A resident of the Umatilla Indian Reservation is going to federal prison for four years for the slaying of a fellow resident of the reservation.

A federal judge in Portland on Monday, April 10, sentenced Tom Redhawk Tias, 23, to four years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for repeatedly striking Thomas James VanPelt Jr., 46, who also lived on the reservation, and killing him.

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PORTLAND — A resident of the Umatilla Indian Reservation is going to federal prison for four years for the slaying of a fellow resident of the reservation.

A federal judge in Portland on Monday, April 10, sentenced Tom Redhawk Tias, 23, to four years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for repeatedly striking Thomas James VanPelt Jr., 46, who also lived on the reservation, and killing him.

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