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• A federal jury indicted Valdovinos-Gil in 2012 for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.
• Authorities say Valdovinos-Gil conspired and agreed with a co-defendant and other people to distribute more than 3.3 pounds of methamphetamine in the state between June 2010 and April 2012.
• Co-defendant Hugo Arechiga-Torres is scheduled to be sentenced in June.
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6 SD people sentenced in immigration-related case
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Six western South Dakota residents have been sentenced for immigration-related crimes stemming from fraudulent contracts with the U.S. Forest Service.
• The individuals from Rapid City were sentenced for their roles in a scheme that hired people living in the country illegally to perform work under contracts with the federal agency.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says the six people, five of whom are relatives, committed their crimes between January 2008 and May 2013.
• Sixty-year-old Angel Munoz-Escalante, 51-year-old Aurelio Munoz-Escalante and 57-year-old Rogelio Escalante were sentenced for false statement charges.
• Fifty-five-year-old Barbara Munoz was sentenced for misprision of a felony, while 31-year-old Miguel Soto and 55-year-old Pascual Munoz were sentenced for continuing unlawful employment of aliens.
• Only Angel and Aurelio Munoz-Escalante will serve prison time.
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Manderson man gets 9 1/2 years for fatal beating
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Manderson man who beat another man to death with a metal bar has been sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison.
• Federal prosecutors say 38-year-old Leonard David Yankton must also pay $3,000 in restitution.
• According to court documents, Yankton killed Winston Sitting Bear on Aug. 2 while the two were fighting. Prosecutors say Yankton repeatedly hit Sitting Bear in the head with a bar.
• He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in December and was recently sentenced in federal court in Rapid City.
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