Fort Belknap man gets 2.5 years for strangulation

A Fort Belknap Indian Reservation man who pleaded guilty to strangling his girlfriend was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison.

Kyle Young, 33, was sentenced to the Bureau of Prisons for 30 months, two years of supervised release and a $100 court assessment fee.

Young is a former law enforcement officer. October 13 2014, a woman told a Fort Belknap investigator and a Federal Bureau of Investigations agent the he strangled her multiple times on separate occasions, according to court documents. One occasion, he strangled her until she started seeing stars, she told investigators.

She...