Fort Thompson Man Sentenced for Scuffle with Arresting Officers

FORT THOMPSON, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 17 months in prison in connection with a scuffle with two arresting officers outside a casino last year.

Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler says 26-year-old Tony St. John was also ordered to spend two years on supervised release. The Fort Thompson man earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer.

Federal authorities say St. John kicked an officer in the face while another officer attempted to handcuff him during an arrest on September 2014 outside the Lodestar Casino in Fort Thompson. They say St. John also tried to grab an officer's gun.

Authorities say officers arrested St. John after he was identified as the man who had tried to get a casino patron to give him her car keys.

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