ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — A Farmington man has been sentenced to prison for his role in torturing and killing a man on the Navajo Nation in 2020. Tyran Begay, 40, will spend 30 years behind bars followed by five years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico.
Court documents show Begay, along with Camille Damon and Ronald Belone, bound and beat John Doe between Feb. 6 and Feb. 14, 2020. They left him in a remote area near Smith Lake during extremely cold weather. Damon and Belone are in custody, waiting for their trial to be scheduled.
Begay is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. The Gallup Resident Agency of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office investigated this case with help from McKinley County Sheriff’s Office. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark A. Probasco and Meg P. Tomlinson.