{"id":119428,"date":"2026-02-05T05:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/02\/05\/ackerman-pleads-guilty-to-murder\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:19:38","modified_gmt":"2028-12-21T05:19:38","slug":"ackerman-pleads-guilty-to-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/02\/05\/ackerman-pleads-guilty-to-murder\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Ackerman Pleads Guilty To Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Poplar man accused of murder and using a firearm in the commission of the murder admitted to charges on Thursday, Jan. 29, U.S. Attorney  Kurt Alme said.<br \/>\n\t  The defendant, Michael J. Ackerman, 74, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree  murder and one count of use of a firearm during a crime of violence.<br \/>\n\t  Ackerman faces a maximum  term of life imprisonment,  a $250,000 fine and five years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119655,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119428\/revisions\/119655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119428"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=119428"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=119428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}