Burglary sentences postponed while attorney looks at Supreme Court decision

The sentencing of two men on charges including some in connection with an extensive burglary ring that operated in the Havre are has been postponed while a defense attorney looks at the impacts of a recent state Supreme Court decision.

Jaylen Jake Crazyboy and Fabian Joel “JuJu” Saddler Jr. were scheduled for sentencing Wednesday afternoon.

That sentencing has now been rescheduled for Aug. 13 while the impacts of the Supreme Court decision in State v. Pierre, filed Tuesday, in which the court overturned the conviction of Raven Sky Pierre, who had pleaded guilty to burglary in Lake County in 2018. The Supreme Court ruled that the state District Court erred in ordering Pierre to pay restitution for items stolen by people other than himself and ordered the court to determine the appropriate amount of restitution only for items stolen by Pierre himself.

The plea agreements under which Crazyboy and Saddler made their guilty pleas include paying restitution.

Saddler was charged after he was found in January 2019 at the residence where Crazyboy was staying following reports from Havre Businesses Northern Ag Solutions and E-1 Towing that people had broken into the businesses and stolen items.

Law enforcement had gone to Crazyboy’s residence because he was a suspect in previous burglaries they were investigating, a court document said, but Crazyboy was not apprehended at that time.

Both were later charged in other offenses, and Crazyboy was charged late last year with 71 counts stemming from the investigation of the burglary ring.

He pleaded guilty to one of those charges, a felony count of continuing criminal enterprise which alleged he organized and ran a burglary scheme, to a charge of theft stemming from allegations he broke into a residence and stole items including a credit card which he attempted to use and to theft by common scheme in another case, which also alleged he broke into a residence and stole form it, including a credit card which he later attempted to use.

Other charges against Crazyboy would be dismissed as part of the plea agreement.

Saddler pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit burglary stemming from his arrest from the search in January 2019 and a charge of burglary stemming from the same Sept. 12 incident from which Crazyboy pleaded guilty to theft. As part of the plea agreement, other charges from those cases and a case in which he was accused of stealing a 2012 GMC Sierra pickup would be dismissed.