Diego Lopez, Reporter
ZUNI PUEBLO – 30year-old Zuni man Ian Channing Lasiloo was indicted on April 5 for a number of firearms-related offenses that led to the alleged intentional wounding of an unidentified victim.
According to the indictment, on August 15, Lasiloo, a man who is classified in court documents as “a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and ammunition” allegedly used that prohibited .22 caliber revolver to attack and assault the unidentified victim with “the intent to cause bodily harm.”
Lasiloo is an enrolled member of the Zuni Tribe. After his hearing on April 5 a judge ordered that he would be released to a halfway house pending trial. The trial has not been scheduled, but if found guilty, Lasiloo faces up to a life sentence in prison. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Lasiloo was charged with “assault with a dangerous weapon; being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and ammunition; and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.”
The Gallup Resident Agency of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office investigated this case with assistance from the Zuni Police Department. Assistant US Attorney Robert James Booth III is prosecuting the case.