Saginaw man convicted of assault, imprisonment of Tribal member [View all]

https://www.themorningsun.com/2025/07/02/saginaw-man-convicted-of-assault-imprisonment-of-tribal-member/

A Saginaw man who was convicted by a federal jury for the unlawful imprisonment and other crimes against a Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribal member in Isabella County has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
United States District Judge Linda Parker of the Michigan Eastern District in Detroit last week sentenced Michael Lee Johnson, 45, after he was convicted by a federal jury in November.
Jurors convicted Johnson of strangulation of an intimate or dating partner, suffocation of an intimate or dating partner, interstate domestic violence and six counts of witness tampering, according to U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr., who was joined in the announcement last week by Special Agent in Charge Cheyvoryea Gibson of the FBI in Detroit.


Commit a crime on Treaty Land and it can become a Federal Crime and you go to Federal Prison. That can mean no parole, no early release period. While Federal Prisons are much better than State prisons, you will serve a much longer time.