Morgan Lake男子驾车撞伤纳瓦霍警员被判17天监禁：酒驾逃逸致警员与平民受伤
新墨西哥区联邦检察官办公室宣布，Morgan Lake 男子 Kendall Benally 因驾车撞伤一名 Navajo Nation 警局警员，被判处17天监禁，释放后还须接受两年监督释放。Benally 现年43岁，是 Navajo Nation 成员。
据法庭文件，2025年9月28日，Navajo Nation 警局警员接报赶赴现场：一名涉嫌酒驾的司机高速行驶并向车外抛掷容器。警员在 Morgan Lake 附近找到坐在厢式车驾驶座上的 Benally。Benally 此前已有两次酒驾定罪，他多次拒绝下车；警员使用胡椒喷雾后，他加速逃离，撞上一名警员和一名平民，并将二人夹在自己的车辆与一辆警车之间。
受伤警员的肘部、膝部和髋部受伤，被送往医院治疗；平民也报告身体多处疼痛和受伤。Benally 于当晨晚些时候被找到并逮捕，随后的呼气酒精测试显示其血液酒精浓度为0.11。他向调查人员承认，开车前喝了六瓶啤酒和一份双倍烈酒。
Benally 已就重罪意图袭击罪认罪。第一助理联邦检察官 Ryan Ellison 与联邦调查局 Albuquerque 外地办公室特别探员主管 Justin A. Garris 宣布了判刑结果。此案由联邦调查局 Farmington 常驻办公室调查，Navajo Nation 警局及 Navajo 刑事调查部协助，助理联邦检察官 Jack E. Burkhead 负责起诉。（来源：新墨西哥区联邦检察官办公室）
Morgan Lake Man Sentenced to 17 Days for Striking Navajo Police Officer With Car While Fleeing Drunk-Driving Stop
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico announced that Kendall Benally, of Morgan Lake, was sentenced to 17 days in custody for striking and injuring a Navajo Nation Police officer with his car. Benally, 43, is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. Upon release, he will be subject to two years of supervised release.
According to court documents, on September 28, 2025, officers from the Navajo Nation Police Department responded to a report of a suspected drunk driver traveling at a high rate of speed and throwing containers from his vehicle. Officers located Benally sitting behind the wheel of a van near Morgan Lake. Benally, who had been convicted twice previously of driving while intoxicated, refused repeated commands to exit the vehicle. When officers deployed pepper spray, Benally accelerated, striking an officer and a civilian and pinning them between his vehicle and a police cruiser before fleeing the scene.
The officer suffered injuries to his elbow, knee and hip that required hospital treatment, while the civilian reported pain and injuries to multiple parts of his body. Benally was located and arrested later that morning. A subsequent breath alcohol test registered a blood alcohol concentration of 0.11. Benally admitted to investigators that he had consumed six beers and a double shot of liquor before driving.
Benally pleaded guilty to assault with intent to commit a felony. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Ellison and Justin A. Garris, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Albuquerque Field Office, made the announcement. The Farmington Resident Agency of the FBI's Albuquerque Field Office investigated the case with assistance from the Navajo Nation Police Department and the Navajo Department of Criminal Investigations. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack E. Burkhead is prosecuting the case. (Source: U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico)
来源：新墨西哥区联邦检察官办公室
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