{"id":128894,"date":"2026-07-02T05:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/07\/02\/wetsit-changes-plea-for-manslaughter\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:17:11","modified_gmt":"2028-12-18T05:17:11","slug":"wetsit-changes-plea-for-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/07\/02\/wetsit-changes-plea-for-manslaughter\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Wetsit Changes Plea For Manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon DeMery Wetsit changed his plea to guilty for voluntary manslaughter during a hearing in U.S. District  Court in Great Falls on Tuesday, June 23.<br \/>\n\t  Sentencing is set for Oct. 15, at 2:30 p.m. in Great Falls.<br \/>\n\t  The offense carries a maximum  penalty of 15 years of imprisonment, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release.  In pleading guilty, the defendant  acknowledges that first,<\/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\/128894"}],"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=128894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129181,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128894\/revisions\/129181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128894"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=128894"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=128894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}