Rapid City Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Assaulting An Intimate Partner on the Pine Ridge Reservation

RAPID CITY - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler has sentenced a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner. The sentencing took place on March 31, 2025. 

Jared Red Cloud, 24, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for each count. The counts were orded to run concurrently. Red Cloud was also ordered to pay a $200 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.

Red Cloud was indicted for Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner and Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation by a federal grand jury in August 2024. He pleaded guilty on January 21, 2025.

The conviction stems from a years-long pattern of violence by Red Cloud against his child’s mother.  Law enforcement learned Red Cloud had beaten the victim in 2021 and 2024, bruising her face and body. The district court cited the pattern of abuse in the relationship in denying Red Cloud’s request for probation or time served and imposed a nine-month sentence.

Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, psychological, or technological actions or threats of actions or other patterns of coercive behavior that influence another person within an intimate partner relationship. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. Resources are available via the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women, as well as through local law enforcement.

This matter was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office because the Major Crimes Act, a federal statute, mandates that certain violent crimes alleged to have occurred in Indian Country be prosecuted in Federal court as opposed to State court.

This case was investigated by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division. Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Lindrooth prosecuted the case.

Red Cloud was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.