Dean James

Death by Force

In the vast expanse of the Hopi Indian Reservation in Arizona, a dedicated officer's life was tragically cut short on a Saturday in September. Dean Martin James, a 34-year-old male Police Officer with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was on his way to work on September 17, 1988, when he spotted a familiar figure hitchhiking along the highway. The man was Craig Hoyungowa, a 23-year-old who had escaped from the Hopi Tribal Jail just the day before, where he was being held on misdemeanor charges.
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